Virgin Radio will burst onto television and cinema screens across the country later this year with the launch of a high-profile advertising campaign to bolster the station’s share of the highly competitive breakfast market.Promoting the station’s popular Pete and Geoff Breakfast Show, the campaign centres around an animated version of the two presenters in a… Continue reading Virgin Launches Campaign To Boost Breakfast Share

Broadband is to this decade what cable television was to the 1980’s, says the latest report from Instat, as cable and DSL figures are expected to climb from 24 million subscribers in 2003 to 50 million by 2008. However, Instat says while growth will remain strong, it will be slowing as the market moves to… Continue reading Broadband Is To This Decade What Cable TV Was To The 1980’s

The market for digital satellite set-top boxes is set to continue to grow over the new few years, says Instat, and by 2008 a total of 71 million devices are expected to be in use worldwide. According to a new report from the high-tech market research firm, the driving force behind the surge in digital… Continue reading Digital Satellite Set-Top Box Market To Grow To 70 Million By 2008

Marketers are constantly looking for new advertising vehicles to reach fickle consumers and a new report from the Yankee group thinks it has the answer in the form of video games. The Marketers Look To Video Games To Drive Their Messages Home report says, although product placement in television programmes and films is common place,… Continue reading Video Game Ads To Generate $260 Million By 2008

New research has revealed that household names are failing to protect their brands online because they are not putting in place appropriate copyright protection. According to brand asset management company, Brandworkz, top 100 global groups with a brand value of over $1 billion, such as Coca Cola, Microsoft and Smirnoff, are being careless when it… Continue reading Top 100 Global Groups Not Protecting Their Brands Online

Marketing budgets continued to rise in the third quarter of this year with little evidence that high oil prices, rising interest rates and economic worries are hampering the recovery. The IPA’s latest quarterly Bellwether report, compiled by NTC research, reveals that the number of UK companies increasing their marketing spend outnumbered those cutting it for… Continue reading Q3 Bellwether: UK Marketing Recovery Still On Track

Although 2004 is turning out to be the best year for the advertising market since the dot-com boom years, according to the author of the Bellwether report, growth in advertising expenditure is likely to slip in the second half of this year. According to Christopher Williamson, economist at NTC Research and author of IPA’s latest… Continue reading Ad Spend Growth May Ease In Q4 2004

Global information and news group, Reuters has saw revenues fall by 4.4% to £528 million during the third quarter of this year, however the results were ahead of the 5% expected decline. For the full-year, recurring revenue is forecast to be down ‘by close’ to 5.5%, implying a quarter four decline of around 3%. Chief… Continue reading Reuters Revenues Down 4.4% And Expects A Further Drop In Q4

Emap Automotive has announced the appointment of Steve Carroll as advertising director with responsibility for all of the company’s four wheeled motoring titles with immediate effect.Carroll, who currently heads Emap Automotive’s performance tuning advertising division, will now assume the extra responsibility for the publisher’s mainstream motoring titles, including Car, Parkers, Classics and Land Rover Owner.The… Continue reading Emap Automotive Hires New Ad Director To Drive Sales

Former BBC director general Greg Dyke has hit out at the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster, ITV, accusing senior management of being preoccupied with generating profit at the expense of creating quality programming.Drawing comparisons with South Korea’s broadcasting system, the former BBC boss likened the Korean MBC to an ITV of the late eighties. Dyke claims… Continue reading Dyke Blasts ITV Over Poor Programmes And Rising Profit