Social network site Digg.com has appointed Net Communities to handle its UK direct advertising sales.

Profit at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation hit $254 million in the three months to the end of December, compared with a loss of $6.4 million a year previously.

The Cinema Advertising Association has appointed Harris Interactive to conduct its ongoing subscriber Film Audience Measurement and Evaluation (FAME) and Film Monitor research studies.

Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP Group, believes governments could have to decide whether to subsidise loss-making newspapers such as the Guardian.

A new US report has found that 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week), up from 6 hours and 21 minutes in 2004.

Advertising revenue at regional publisher Newsquest was down 17.9% year on year in the thirteen weeks to 27 December 2009, according to results from US parent company Gannett.

Virgin Media recorded over 750 million video-on-demand views in 2009, a 50% year on year increase, with December seeing 76 million views, up 6% on the previous month.

TalkTalk is to launch new television and mobile phone services after identifying these as growth areas.

In keeping with many predictions that 2010 will finally be “the year of mobile”, January saw a host of forecasts claiming mobile was about to take-off in a major way.

The amount of time spent on social networking sites by consumers worldwide rose by 82% year on year in December 2009, according to new figures from The Nielsen Company.