Future, which is set to launch its 100th digital edition for the iPad, says sales of digital editions and bespoke apps on tablets are now on track to become one of the publisher’s biggest drivers of revenue and profit growth.
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Booming sales of tablets in 2011 will help drive a 57.8% increase in shipments of mobile broadband devices that provide high-speed wireless connectivity on the go, according to a new IHS iSuppli Wireless Communications topical report.
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…
BSkyB has reported pre-tax profits of £1 billion in the year to the end of June, as the company announced a £750 million share buy-back to appease investors following News Corporation’s failed attempt to take full control of the satellite broadcaster.
Tim Hipperson, CEO, G2 Joshua, says the traditional agency formula is inadequately prepared for the fickle and fast-paced demands of the online community… Is it time for change?
The UK’s national newspaper websites suffered a drop in usage in June, with almost all audited sites recording a small drop in both daily and monthly figures.
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…
Jessica Hallsworth, senior research executive at GfK, on the value of event sponsorship…
Rock and roll, the Sun, a slipped disc and chicken tikka masala? The answer is of course ‘fusion’, an adaptable word that conveys quite different meanings to a musician, a physicist, an orthopaedic surgeon and the man on the Boris bike.
Just at the very moment when the official launch of the silly season seemed inevitable, along came the most dreadful atrocity from the most unexpected of all places – Norway. Then Amy Winehouse died. Couldn’t she have waited a couple of days and then she could have been given the full, unambiguous dead tragic star/hero treatment without any Norwegian neo-Nazis getting in the way.
