Last week in the City we saw WPP announce that its third quarter revenues were up 4.9% to £1.48 billion.The group reported constant currency growth of 5% in the UK, compared with 3.7% in the first half, whilst North American revenues were up 8%, compared with 8.3% in the first half (Full Story).Search engine giant… Continue reading Media In The City: WPP’s Q3 Revenues Up 4.9%

Five has named Alex Menzies, currently deputy controller of features, as the channel’s new head of features.It is one of several changes within the broadcaster’s programming department announced by Five’s director of programmes, Jay Hunt.Head of factual entertainment, Steve Gowans, is to be given additional responsibility for exploiting the main channel’s content across its digital… Continue reading Five Announces Changes In Programming Department

It was the last in the current series of Who Do You Think You Are? last night, and the show had a peak audience of six million adults, a 29.8% share of the audience.Yesterday’s episode followed Olympic rowing legend Matthew Pinsent as he traced his family history, and an average of 5.9 million adults (a29.6%… Continue reading Pinsent Pulls In The Viewers For Who Do You Think You Are?

A new report from independent market analyst Datamonitor expects global active memberships in social networking sites to reach 230 million at the end of 2007.The report, The Future of Social Networking: understanding market strategic and technological developments, says that infrastructure providers, social network providers and wireless players stand to profit largely in the near term.Ri… Continue reading Social Networking Site Memberships To Reach 230 Million

The Deloitte review into ITV’s premium rate services (PRS) has found serious editorial issues in three ITV programmes: Soapstar Superstar; Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway; and Ant and Dec’s Gameshow Marathon 2005.The Deloitte review also highlighted serious technical issues around the use of red button for voting and the late arrival of SMS text… Continue reading Deloitte ITV Review Highlights Serious Editorial Issues

The town of Whitehaven in Cumbria today became the first place in the UK to lose its analogue signal as the digital switchover begins.The two-stage process for 25,000 homes in Whitehaven began in the early hours of this morning, when the analogue BBC Two signal was turned off.Four weeks from now, on November 14, the… Continue reading Digital Switchover Begins Today

Dynamic Logic has released new analysis of 32 cross-media campaigns across ten categories, finding that all three media platforms – television, magazines, and online – contribute incrementally to brand metrics, bringing various strengths at different points along the purchase funnel.According to the Dynamic Logic study, TV and online’s contributions were more apparent during the awareness… Continue reading New Research Finds Media Work Best Together In Driving Consumer Purchases

The number of people watching internet TV has increased steadily year on year, suggesting a healthy future for this technology, according to Continental Research’s Autumn 2007 Internet & Convergence Report.In particular, the number of people watching shows they have previously downloaded from the internet has doubled, from 1.3 million in 2006 to 2.4 million in… Continue reading Internet TV Growing Strongly

Last night saw the return of Dragons’ Den to BBC Two at 9pm, and the business reality show picked up a peak of three million adult viewers, a 13.6% share of the audience.The show had an average audience of 2.8 million adult viewers (a 12.5% share) who stuck with it for its hour duration.However, although… Continue reading Three Million Adults Enter The Dragons’ Den

The BBC has become the first UK broadcaster to have all of its online content made available for free via Wi-Fi, it was announced today by BBC director of future media & technology, Ashley Highfield.The non-exclusive venture enables the public to access all bbc.co.uk content for free through the UK’s largest network of hotspots, operated… Continue reading BBC Makes Online Content Available For Free Via Wi-Fi