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Lee Bartlett is to replace Dawn Airey as ITV’s managing director of global content.Bartlett will be responsible for overseeing ITV plc’s UK and international production and distribution businesses, including ITV productions.Bartlett joined ITV Global Content as chief operating officer for the division at the start of April this year and has been acting as interim… Continue reading Bartlett To Replace Airey At ITV

Speaking at yesterday’s MediaTel Group Media Playground event, Guy Phillipson, CEO of the Internet Advertising Bureau, said that in five years 35% of all media could be on the IP platform. In a brief but wide ranging interview with BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas, Phillipson also spoke about the direct response benefits of online, particularly… Continue reading The Media Playground Interview: Guy Phillipson

Niche networks could be the way forward for social networking sites, according to some of the panelists speaking at yesterday’s MediaTel Group Media Playground event. Bruce Daisley, digital sales director at Bauer Advertising, said niche networks “which can often be like minded strangers rather than friends in real life” could be a big growth area… Continue reading Niche Networks Could Be Future Of Social Networking

Jamie Theakston has signed a three-year extension to his current deal presenting the Heart 106.2 breakfast show, which will see him remain in place until the start of 2011.Heart’s owner, Global Radio, has also signed a similar deal with Nick Ferrari, presenter on London speech station LBC 97.3.Theakston and co-host Harriet Scott saw the weekly… Continue reading Theakston Gets Three More Years At Heart 106.2

Italian football fans might not have enjoyed watching, but over 5 million adult viewers tuned in to see the Euro 2008 match between Holland and Italy last night.The 3-0 win recorded by the Dutch was seen by an average of 5.2 million, with viewing peaking at 6.7 million for the last fifteen minutes of the… Continue reading Over 5m See Dutch Hammer Italians

Britons, on average, are spending just 4% more time online a month than they did a year ago, according to new research from Nielsen Online.The biggest increases in online time were for consumer generated media (47%), search (13%) and entertainment (8%) sites, with the biggest decreases coming for communication (-10%), and content sites (-3%). How… Continue reading Britons Spending 4% More Time Online Per Month

Informa, publisher of Lloyd’s List, is holding preliminary talks with United Business Media (UBM) over a merger that could create a business-to-business giant valued at around £3 billion. Following press speculation, Informa confirmed in a statement it was discussing an “all-share merger”. Informa, owner of market research firm Datamonitor, has been seen as vulnerable to… Continue reading Informa Holds Merger Talks With UBM

Simon Long is to take up the newly created position of daytime editor at Bauer Radio’s dance music station, Kiss 100.Long will be responsible for managing the daytime schedule of the Kiss 100 station, executing programmes, working with presenters and ensuring engaging content is produced to run on Kiss’ on-air and off-air platforms.He will report… Continue reading Kiss Appoints New Daytime Editor

The latest research from Mediacells reveals that mobile sports pages were accessed an average of ten times per unique user, with 58% of visits made via Nokia phones.The data, taken from a survey of 50 million mobile internet pages, also revealed that the peak time for accessing mobile sports pages is 4pm.Sony Ericsson’s are the… Continue reading Sports Pages Popular With Mobile Users

UK advertising expenditure reached £19.4 billion in 2007, up 4.2% year-on year, according to figures published today in the Advertising Association’s Advertising Statistics Yearbook 2008. This figure compares to annual growth of only 0.7% in 2006. UK Advertising Expenditure at current prices, 2007        Total Advertising Expenditure (£ Millions) Press     7,716… Continue reading UK Adspend Grew 4.2% In 2007