The Times has announced a break in publication for its weekly football supplement, The Game, replacing it with a series of special publications dedicated to a number of different sports.Topics covered by the interim titles will range from Open Golf to Test Cricket and Glorious Goodwood, kicking off on Monday 5 July with a special… Continue reading Times Calls A Halt To The Game For Summer Break
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MegaPoster has secured car manufacturer Mitsubishi to launch its new Colt model with a national giant banner campaign featuring two of the company’s prime sites in Birmingham and London.The two sites will spearhead a five-banner campaign that will run throughout July and August instead of the normal one month poster period. The creative will feature… Continue reading MegaPoster Drives Expansion With Mitsubishi Campaign
The international specialist consumer magazine group, Future Network, has today revealed that revenue for the first five months of 2004 is up by 8%, fuelled by growth in Europe and the United States. The trading update, issued prior to the interim results due on 14 September 2004, shows that mainland Europe outperformed all other regions,… Continue reading UK Lags Behind Europe And US Growth For Future
Media and marketing research group, Aegis, today said that revenues for the first half of this year are expected to be comfortably ahead of last year in its three operating regions; Europe, US and Asia. The trading update, issued prior to the interim results due on 7 September 2004, said that during the past few… Continue reading Aegis Performing Ahead Of Last Year
The newspaper industry must do more to claw back advertising revenue, claimed Maureen Duffy, the chief executive of the Newspaper Marketing Agency (NMA). As reported by MediaGuardian, Duffy said that the newspaper industry has been outmanoeuvred by television, radio and outdoor poster companies and only had themselves to blame for failing to stop the migration… Continue reading Press Must Claw Back Ad Revenue
The future of free-to-air (FTA) television may find itself in trouble after 2014, as competition from other forms of information and entertainment technology hots up, says a report from research and consultancy group, Paul Budde Communication. According to the report, FTA television can easily survive the next ten years but its future after that is… Continue reading Free-To-Air TV Set To Hit Troubled Times
The BBC has announced a partnership with Lyons Cakes to create an on-pack promotion offering readers a £10,000 makeover in the first promotion of its kind for the magazine.The promotion will run from today until the end of August, featuring across a range of the company’s confectionary, from treacle tarts to the french sandwich.Commenting on… Continue reading BBC Tempts Gardeners With Cake Competition
Emap Advertising and MediaCom have secured a bespoke cross-media campaign with Electronic Arts to promote the launch of the new Need For Speed Underground 2 computer game across its range of Max Power branded media.The promotional activity launches in this month’s Max Power magazine and runs across its online, SMS and live event platforms. It… Continue reading Max Power And Electronic Arts Feel The Need For Speed
Channel 4’s newly appointed chief executive Andy Duncan has stated that the broadcaster could survive in the increasingly competitive multi-channel market without needing to change its current strategy or adapt its output.Speaking at his first press conference as Channel 4 chief executive, Duncan responded to questions over the broadcaster’s future strategy and his plans while… Continue reading Duncan: Channel 4 Could Survive Digital Future As It Is
Internet search operator Ask Jeeves has struck a partnership with shopping search engine Kelkoo to create a product search facility to add to its portfolio of existing search tools.The new product search service allows easier searching of shopping websites and categories as well as being able to search for products by feature or price. The… Continue reading Ask Jeeves Creates Shopping Tool With Kelkoo
