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Bertelsmann, owner of book publisher Random House, has approached its subsidiary RTL about buying the remaining 10% of shares it does not own. Bertelsmann has been gradually increasing its stake in RTL, owner of Five and one of the largest producers of TV outside of the US through its subsidiary Fremantle Media. In a statement,… Continue reading Bertelsmann Makes Approach For Remaining RTL Shares

BT Vision has announced the trial launch of a new service giving customers free film rental in return for watching targeted advertisements through its BT Vision Download Store.BT Vision Download Store is an online video store available to all of the UK’s 14 million broadband customers, regardless of which internet service provider they use. It… Continue reading BT Vision Launches Targeted Ad Trial

The UK online retail sector attracted 29 million unique visitors in October 2007, which amounts to 89% of the country’s total online user base in that month, according to the latest figures from comScore. The most popular online property was eBay, which attracted 22.2 million unique visitors or 68% of the UK’s total internet audience.… Continue reading UK Online Retail Sector Attracts 29 Million Unique Users In October

A new forecast from GroupM predicts that advertising spending in US measured media will show an almost 4% year on year increase in 2008. Worldwide spending is expected to rise 7% to $479 billion in 2008 following an anticipated 6% increase in 2007. US advertising spending, meanwhile, is expected to show a 3.7% increase to… Continue reading Worldwide Adspend Expected To Rise 7% to $479 billion In 2008

Thinkbox, the UK marketing body for commercial TV, and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) have today announced they are joining forces to undertake a new research project examining the effectiveness of using TV and online together in advertising campaigns.Both the IAB and Thinkbox are encouraging UK agencies to submit campaigns to take part in the… Continue reading Thinkbox And IAB In Joint Research Project

IPC Ignite is launching an NME radio station next year in a major strategic partnership with multimedia music company DX Media.The new station will be available from mid-2008 on various national digital broadcast platforms, and to users of NME.COM.It will broadcast from new DX Media studios at the NME HQ, the Blue Fin Building, Southwark.NME… Continue reading NME To Launch Radio Station

IPC Southbank has appointed Alicen Stenner, group digital marketing director and publisher at Hearst Digital’s handbag.com, as its digital director.Stenner, who takes up her new role in mid-February, was brand director of handbag.com for seven years and before that was marketing manager for BBC Radio.Jackie Newcombe, managing director of IPC Southbank, said: “Southbank has delivered… Continue reading IPC Southbank Appoints Digital Director

The private equity firm Apax is understood to be favourite to buy Emap’s business-to-business publishing business as bidding moves to the second round. Guardian Media Group is involved with the Apax bid, with the second round also seeing bids from private equity houses Cinven and Candover, joint owners of German publishing group Springer. According to… Continue reading Apax Now Emap Favourite

All-star period drama, Cranford, was a winner once again for BBC One last night with an average adult audience of more than 7.1 million.The programme, which stars big names like Judi Dench and Imelda Staunton, gave the channel a 28.1% viewing share between 9pm and 10pm, whilst BBC Two screened the final episode in Charlie… Continue reading More Than 7m Tune In To Cranford

Jay Hunt, Five’s director of programmes, has been appointed controller of BBC One.She replaces Peter Fincham, who resigned following the Wyatt Report into the ‘Crowngate’ affair (see Fincham Quits Following Queen Doco Shocker).Hunt, who only took up her job at Five in September (see Five Announces New Director Of Programmes) was previously BBC controller daytime… Continue reading Jay Hunt Appointed BBC One Controller