Outdoor advertising group, JCDecaux, has added to the record-breaking results it achieved in the first half of this year, as third-quarter revenues topped expectations, climbing by 7.9% to â‚Ź375.3 million. Over the nine month period from January to September, revenues climbed by 5.6% to â‚Ź1,167.6 million, spurred by a strong performance across all of the… Continue reading Another Record Quarter For JCDecaux As Revenues Climb By 8%
ARCHIVE ▸ The Media Leader Staff
The European Union has unveiled plans of its new â‚Ź7.5 million project that will allow TV-buffs to manipulate films to make a more personalised version. The New Media For A New Millennium (NM2) project, aims to allow viewers to participate in story lines that they create, as well as being able to have an input… Continue reading Personalised TV Backed By EU Project
Clear Channel has secured a £10 million deal with the UK’s largest owner of shopping centres in a move that will significantly strengthen its point-of-sale advertising business.The company’s Adshel division signed the seven-year deal with Prudential Property Investment Managers, giving it control of 6-sheet posters in 19 major shopping malls across the country, including in… Continue reading Adshel Secures UK’s Largest Shopping Centre Contract
Emap has moved to strengthen its radio business with the appointment of Shaun Gregory as managing director of national brands and Travis Baxter as head of the Big City network.The shake-up will see Gregory (pictured), previously Emap Performance’s director of development, assume responsibility for the growth of the company’s portfolio of national radio networks including… Continue reading Emap Strengthens Radio Business With New Appointments
Kelvin MacKenzie’s Wireless Group has announced a broadcasting partnership with the Belfast Telegraph in order to table a bid for an FM radio licence in the Irish city and its surrounding areas.The bidding partnership brings together TWG and Independent News and Media, with the proposal being chaired by Chris Gibson, one of Northern Ireland’s most… Continue reading Wireless Group Bids For Belfast FM Licence
Emap’s Kiss 100 radio station has announced an exclusive partnership deal with Thorpe Park to promote the theme park’s Fright Nite event throughout the Halloween period.The radio promotion will run for one week on Kiss 100’s Robin and Millie Show, offering listeners the chance to win VIP passes to exclusive Kiss 100 Fright Nites at… Continue reading Emap Signs Theme Park Partnership For Halloween
ITV has secured independent tour operator James Villas as the exclusive sponsor of the fourth run of dayitme chat show Today With Des and Mel.The deal, which was brokered by Nick Evans at ARM-Direct and Stewart Hunt at ITV Sales, includes full broadcast sponsorship of the line show on ITV1, nighttime repeats and a range… Continue reading Today With Des And Mel Secures Broadcast Sponsor
Metro International is running a pan-European advertising campaign for Hewlett-Packard that will see the free-sheet newspaper cover-wrapped simultaneously in seven different countries.The deal will see full outside and inside cover-wraps run on editions in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Hungary and Greece, in a move designed to promote Hewlett-Packard’s printing technology to 5 million… Continue reading Metro Cover-Wraps Editions In Seven Countries
Advertising giant, WPP, exceeded expectations in the third quarter of this year, as revenue rose by nearly 4% to £1.068 billion, marking the first time ever the company has broken through the billion-pound barrier in a three-month period. Today’s trading update for July to September 2004 shows, revenues in the United Kingdom grew by 12%,… Continue reading WPP Revenues Grow By 4% To Exceed Expectations And £1bn Barrier
WPP Group’s relatively weak results for the third quarter of 2004 are signalling some doubts about the recovery of the US advertising marketplace. In a statement issued to shareholders this morning, WPP voiced concerns about the prospects for the United States economy in the aftermath of the presidential election, with its fiscal deficit, weak dollar… Continue reading ‘Jury’ Remains Out For US Ad Recovery