India’s film business is set for a period of sustained growth according to new research by Dodona. Dodona forecasts that production investment will rise 70% by 2006 and that the Indian film industry’s export revenues will rise 120% over the same period. The researcher also predicts that foreign films’ theatrical rentals in India will also… Continue reading Indian Multiplex Boom Will Provide Boost For Bollywood
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ABN AMRO this morning reports that Zenith will downgrade its ad spend forecasts for 2002 citing a ‘lag’ in US spending as adspend struggles to catch up with the improving economy. Zenith now believes that the advertising market will not recover until Q4 2002. The new figures from Zenith compare with those from ABN AMRO… Continue reading Zenith Downgrades ‘Overly Optimistic’ 2002 Forecasts
SponsorClick has today announced that it has revised up its 2002 global sponsorship market growth forecasts, published last December. The company said that “given the stronger than expected economic outlook” during Q1 2002, SponsorClick now forecasts +12% for the sponsorship market in 2002, compared to its previous estimate of 10%. It is estimated that the… Continue reading Sponsorship Market Will Grow By 12% in 2002, Says SponsorClick
Jupiter Media Metrix yesterday forecast that revenues from paid online content will grow to $5.8 billion by 2006, up from $1.4 billion in 2002. According to Jupiter revenues for general content will rise from $700 million in 2001 to $2.3 billion in 2006 whilst revenues from online games and digital music will total $1.8 billion… Continue reading Online Future Will Mirror Cable TV, Says Jupiter
The prime mover in Rupert Murdoch’s UK satellite TV success, sports broadcasting rights, may be floundering as a must-have for TV networks as the high stakes paid during boom time take their toll on balance sheets in these advertising-challenged times. In the US, bidding wars over various league and competition rights have subsided somewhat with… Continue reading Insight Feature: Sport, Not The Draw It Used To Be?
United Business Media’s (UBM) chief executive, Clive Hollick, this morning said that ‘2001 was one of the toughest trading periods’ that the company has experienced, with the slump in technology advertising halving the group’s profits (see UBM Shares Fall As Profits Are Halved By Hi-Tech Ad Slowdown) Hi-tech ad slump hits CMP Media Advertising volumes… Continue reading UBM Profits Halved By Hi-Tech Ad Slowdown As Decline Continues
Although the advertising slump is forecast to continue through to the end of 2002, media analysts are confident that spending will return in 2003 and investors need not worry. “Advertising isn’t an investment priority. We assume it will come back, we assume it will be feeble in 2002 but will come back in 2003,” said… Continue reading ‘Extraordinary Bulge’ Led To Ad Decline In 2001
Advertising expenditure in Japan fell by 0.9% in 2001 year on year, according to figures released by Dentsu, the country’s largest ad agency. Adspend for the year was 6,058 billion yen. The decline follows an increase of 7.2% in 2000 – the first gain for the industry in three years. After two years of decline,… Continue reading Japan Advertising Falls 0.9% In 2001
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell, speaking at the World Economic Forum in New York, has said that he sees no signs of a recovery in the global economy or advertising market despite the upbeat forecasts of some commentators at the World Forum. “I’ve seen no blue sky or green shoots. Nothing tells me the global… Continue reading Sorrell Sees ‘No Blue Sky’
Not everyone attending the World Economic Forum in New York had as negative an outlook as WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell (see Sorrell Sees ‘No Blue Sky’). Although the general consensus of opinion seems to be that an upturn in the economy should be expected no sooner that Q3/Q4 2002, there are some who believe… Continue reading Whispers Of Recovery From WEF Meeting In NY