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Robert Thomson will become the CEO of the new proposed publishing entity, following News Corps intended separation into two independent, publicly traded companies.

The Daily had only secured around 100,000 subscribers during its 21 months in existence – losing around $30 million a year.

Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group found that 52% of households in the US that subscribe to a multi-channel video service have a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), compared to 4% of TV households that do not subscribe to a multi-channel video service. In addition, 43% of all households with a DVR now have DVR on more than one TV set.

Simon Cox, vice-president and head, Turner Media Innovations, EMEA has said that TV advertising will increasingly be based around content in its own right rather than take the form of the traditional 30-second spot.Speaking at last week’s Future TV Advertising conference in London, Cox said that advertising in the future could increasingly take the form… Continue reading The future of advertising will be content-based

Consumers in the UK are changing the way they view TV and video content by increasingly taking control of how, when, and where they view it, according to a new survey released by Accenture.About half (48%) of consumers surveyed in Accenture’s Pulse of Media Consumer Survey are viewing over-the-top (OTT) video through a broadband connection… Continue reading Nearly half of UK consumers view OTT content

Global ad expenditure will grow 4.1% in 2013, reaching US$518 billion by the end of the year according to new data from ZenithOptimedia.

The weekend brought us more of the same juggernaut reality TV shows, although at least one of them had the decency to wrap it up while it still had a prime time audience.

Mark Brandon, Virgin Media’s commercial director, said last week that the company’s targeted advertising trial rollout was imminent. Speaking at last Wednesday’s Future TV Advertising conference in London, Brandon said that Virgin’s video on demand advertising had already been an unqualified success.Speaking to Digital TV Europe Brandon said that Virgin Media was taking its move… Continue reading Virgin Media plans launch of targeted advertising

AdSmart will be operating within seven million households from nine million set-top boxes, with the set-top box making advertising decisions based on the information that Sky holds on the household.

After the publication of Leveson’s report yesterday, here is a round-up of what the papers are saying.