At the start of December, GroupM released a revised forecast for UK adspend, predicting a fall of 12% year on year in 2009.

These tables show GroupM’s latest global advertising forecasts.

Guardian Media Group (GMG) has held “exploratory talks” about selling the Manchester Evening News and other regional titles, it has confirmed.

ITV deputy chairman Sir George Russell is to step down from the ITV board at the end of the month.

Wallpaper* magazine will have an augmented reality cover on its January issue and a special feature enhanced with AR technology.

Revenues from applications other than voice and messaging on mobile are set to double in the next four years to reach €100 billion a year by the end of 2013, according to new research from Screen Digest.

Tim Elkington, former managing director of the National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS), has been appointed as the new head of research at the Internet Advertising Bureau.

The UK enjoyed the highest average increase in TV watching in Europe during 2008, up by 3.2% to 3.8 hours a day, according to a new report from Ofcom.

BSkyB is launching a 3D cinema ad campaign tomorrow around new sci-fi flick Avatar, to promote its launch next year of the first 3D television channel in Europe.

“Customers are very open to receiving mobile advertising, as long as it is on their terms,” Jonathan Kelly, principal manager of Vodafone marketing services, told delegates at yesterday’s MediaTel Group seminar on the ‘Future of Mobile’.