New figures from the BBC reveal that the iPlayer has now received more than 75 million requests to stream or download programmes.The figures, which were unveiled by Ashley Highfield, BBC director of future media & technology, at the Google Zeitgeist 2008 forum, also show that the iPlayer enjoyed strong growth in April.The total number of… Continue reading iPlayer Receives More Than 75m Requests To View Since Launch

The new release of UK data for April 2008 from Nielsen Online reveals that YouTube remains the star of the social media scene, being the most popular site for the seventh consecutive month.Facebook becomes only the second social media brand to pass 10 million unique visitors in a single month, according to Nielsen. YouTube passed… Continue reading YouTube ‘Most Popular Social Media Site’

Facebook is still the most popular social networking site in the UK following a 7.2% rise in unique users from March to April, according to new figures from comScore.The site was up by a massive 288.9% year on year, to 14.35 million UK unique users during April.The average time spent by each user on the… Continue reading Facebook Remains UK’s Most Popular Social Networking Site

Commercial radio revenue figures, released today by RadioCentre, the industry body for commercial radio, show that radio advertising continued to grow during the first quarter of 2008 with a year on year increase of 6.7%, to £158.8 million.Within this figure national revenue showed the strongest growth with a 9.4% increase year on year.The commercial radio… Continue reading Commercial Radio Sees Adspend Increase In Q1

Saturday saw the FA Cup Final between Portsmouth and Cardiff on BBC One, with the lads from the south coast running out 1-0 winners.A peak of 7.6 million adult viewers – a 52.7% share of the audience – tuned in to the action, with an average of 4.6 million watching all the coverage.Later on Saturday,… Continue reading 7.6m See Portsmouth Lift The FA Cup

Starting today for one week, Magic 105.4 is becoming Sex and the City FM to promote the release of the Sex and the City movie.During this week Magic will run a promotional competition, entitled ‘Sex and the City’s Gorgeous Giveaway’, featuring hourly rounds of trivia on the characters, New York, fashion, cocktails and nightlife.From 7am… Continue reading Magic 105.4 In Sex And The City Promotion

Judges have thrown out Sky’s appeal to prevent confidential documents being seen by lawyers for Virgin Media.Virgin Media is in the process of suing Sky for abusing its market dominance in negotiations over channel carriage deals between the two companies.Three judges threw out Sky’s request that there would be restrictions placed on who saw confidential… Continue reading Judges Throw Out Sky Appeal

Daily Newspaper MarketBritain’s national daily newspapers reported an overall drop in readership in March, of 3% year on year.Tthe Daily Record showed a very impressive upturn in readers year on year, of around 9%, while the Daily Mail was also up.There were some relatively large declines though, with the Independent down by around 13.5% year… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: March 2008

TNS has rejected a second bid from WPP, which values the group at just under £1 billion.The TNS board said that it unanimously rejected the improved offer as it substantially undervalued the company.WPP approached TNS with a revised cash and stock bid worth 241.5p per share.At around £996 million, the offer marked a 5% premium… Continue reading TNS Rejects Second WPP Bid

Daily Newspaper MarketBritain’s national daily newspapers suffered a downturn in circulation of almost 1% year on year in April, according to the latest ABC data.Only two daily titles managed to buck the downward trend on display, with the Sun boosting its circulation by almost 3% year on year.There was a relatively large decline for the… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: April 2008