Jim Marshall says that while the Arab Spring seemed to be a righteous uprising, aided and abetted by a liberating social media network, events at home (in the riots and the hacking scandal) saw a potentially more unsavoury side to the use of some media channels… not so much an Arab Spring as an English Rusty Nail!
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Having let the dust settle, allowing me time to watch Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture in its entirety, I was struck by his sincerity, self-deprecation (“if we were responsible for TV programming, you’d get a lot of bad sci-fi”) and an innate understanding of where TV fits in the new media eco-system.
The latest ABC release for the regional newspaper market is very illuminating – not for the continued percentage declines in newspapers sold, which continues unabated, but for the online usage stats.
James Whitmore, MD of POSTAR, wants to escape the narrow ghetto of specific media choices…
NEW: Another six months of tables and tables of data have hit my inbox. Almost 100 pages of numbers – nearly the same number of pages as Grazia – but with none of the pictures, products and ads to look at…
The natural hierarchy of things in the national newspaper market has changed. In most markets a hungrier number two can eventually wear down a market leader. In the newspaper market this can take decades – it really is a war of attrition and in this particular case it is between two heavyweight sluggers.
Greg Grimmer, partner, Hurrell Moseley Dawson & Grimmer, on how media consumption habits change in the holiday season…
According to our estimates for 31 July (for Sunday Popular and Mid-Market titles), the market is now down nearly half a million copies from June’s ABC figure.
After the scale of the famine in Somalia, the atrocities in Norway and Amy Winehouse’s premature death, the news agenda (both print and broadcast) is led once again by the phone hacking saga…
Sunday 17 July was the big one – the once in a quarter of a century opportunity for newspaper publishers to grab a larger circulation base and market share following the closure of the News of the World the week before. Sales were up but this week tells a different story…