Love Island last night recorded its highest adult viewing figures since the opening show, with a peak of 2.9 million adults (a 15% audience share) tuning in to the first episode of the evening.An average of 2.8 million adult viewers watched the first instalment of the night, on ITV1 at 10pm, while the second show,… Continue reading Love Island Resurgent Without Big Brother To Bother It

Sky Media, the advertising sales division of BSkyB, has expanded its internet advertising business with the acquisition of online sales agency, Aura Sports Ltd.Sky Media says that Aura’s network of sports and entertainment websites Aura will now join Sky’s wholly-owned websites in an enhanced online advertising offering.This is the first time that Sky Media’s third-party… Continue reading Sky Media Acquires Online Sales Agency

Phil Quartly, who left UTV Radio as commercial director after just six months in the role, has joined JCDecaux as head of sales.Quartly left UTV last week after joining the radio broadcaster from Emap (see Former SIRS Boss Joins UTV Radio As Commercial Head), and taking on a range of repsonsibilities across the flagship station… Continue reading Quartly Joins JCDecaux As Head Of Sales

Throughout the summer Big Brother was the talk of schools and workplaces around the country, with millions tuning in to see what devious tasks the contestants would have to complete on their way to winning the £100,000 grand prize.The opening show of the series kicked off to a cracking start as the new housemates took… Continue reading Big Brother Series 7 Overview

The Daily Record, the biggest selling Scottish daily newspaper, is to launch two timed, geographical editions targeting Glasgow and Edinburgh.The new editions, Daily Record Glasgow PM and Daily Record Edinburgh PM, will be on sale from 3pm each afternoon in over 1,000 outlets across both cities. Over 20 journalists have been recruited to the new… Continue reading Daily Record Launches Two New Timed Editions

SMG, owner of cinema advertising business Pearl & Dean and Virgin Radio, has released a statement confirming that it has received a merger bid from UTV.The statement follows a report in the Times which said that UTV had made an approach. In the statement, the SMG board said that if the merger were to take… Continue reading UTV Merger Bid For SMG

As with the other magazine sectors, the figures returned for the first half of the year were relatively poor, with most titles registering a decline in sales.Future Publishing, which dominates the market, saw its title Xbox World 360 record an increase of 25.5% year on year (a growth in real terms of 4,712) following the… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2006:Poor First Half Of 2006 For Gaming Magazines

The latest ABC results for the six months to June 2006 show that some of the biggest titles in the men’s magazine sector are suffering declining sales.The biggest percentage decline in the men’s market was that of Maxim, which saw sales fall 35.8% year on year, although this was not the biggest decline in real… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2006:Men’s Magazines Suffer Declining Circulations

The latest ABC results for the TV listings sector show that only two titles have recorded circulation increases in the six months to June, both from H Bauer Publishing.TV Choice saw the largest increase in sales in the TV listings market, with an 11.2% rise year on year (an actual rise of 130,151), taking it… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2006:Decline For TV Listings And Mixed Results For Soap

Year on year declines continued to be the norm for the majority of women’s monthlies, with large decreases in circulation for some titles.Conde Nast’s Glamour stayed in front of the pack as the magazine of choice, although the title’s circulation, of 586,056, was down 3.9% year on year.The largest sales increase for the sector came… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2006:Women’s Monthlies Market Still Volatile