It was the last in the current series of Who Do You Think You Are? last night, and the show had a peak audience of six million adults, a 29.8% share of the audience.Yesterday’s episode followed Olympic rowing legend Matthew Pinsent as he traced his family history, and an average of 5.9 million adults (a29.6%… Continue reading Pinsent Pulls In The Viewers For Who Do You Think You Are?
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The BBC is set to air more repeats and less original programming, following plans to shrink the size of the corporation.Up to 1,800 staff will also be made redundant – primarily in news, BBC programme-making and regional centres. The BBC will also sell-off its flagship Television Centre, under the plans to make up a £2… Continue reading More Repeats And Job Losses At the BBC
The Deloitte review into ITV’s premium rate services (PRS) has found serious editorial issues in three ITV programmes: Soapstar Superstar; Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway; and Ant and Dec’s Gameshow Marathon 2005.The Deloitte review also highlighted serious technical issues around the use of red button for voting and the late arrival of SMS text… Continue reading Deloitte ITV Review Highlights Serious Editorial Issues
A new report from independent market analyst Datamonitor expects global active memberships in social networking sites to reach 230 million at the end of 2007. The report, The Future of Social Networking: understanding market strategic and technological developments, says that infrastructure providers, social network providers and wireless players stand to profit largely in the near… Continue reading Social Networking Site Memberships To Reach 230 Million
A new forecast from eMarketer projects that worldwide mobile brand advertising will rise to $3.5 billion in 2011, up from $123 million in 2006. Mobile text messaging is more or less a mass-market service worldwide, says the online market research firm. Mobile music is climbing the rungs of the mass-market ladder, it add, and most… Continue reading Mobile Brand Ad Market Set To Grow
Last night saw the Alan Titchmarsh series The Nature Of Britain win the all important 9pm slot, with the BBC One show picking up a peak of 5.5 million adult viewers (a 26% share of the audience).It was a varied night on the box, with Heroes on BBC Two at 9pm grabbing a peak audience… Continue reading 5.5m Adults Watch Green-Fingered Titchmarsh
BBC News and BBC Worldwide are understood to have agreed a deal which will see advertising on the corporation’s international website, bbc.com.BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm that oversees BBC.com, apparently came to an arrangement with BBC News last week, according to a report on MediaGuardian.co.uk.The report quotes unnamed sources as saying that BBC Worldwide… Continue reading BBC International Website Could Get Ads
Future Plus and O2 have launched a premium retail magazine to support sales and drive customer experience.The magazine, called blue, has been developed in conjunction with Future Plus, a specialist publishing agency which is a division of Future, the UK’s leading consumer electronics publishing house.The 70-page monthly magazine has a print run of 500,000 and… Continue reading O2 Launches Retail Magazine With Future Plus
A new report from independent market analyst Datamonitor expects global active memberships in social networking sites to reach 230 million at the end of 2007.The report, The Future of Social Networking: understanding market strategic and technological developments, says that infrastructure providers, social network providers and wireless players stand to profit largely in the near term.Ri… Continue reading Social Networking Site Memberships To Reach 230 Million
Aegis has announced the acquisition of Implicom, a sales promotion and direct marketing specialist in France. Implicom was founded in 1992, and serves a strong base of blue-chip clients. In a statement, Aegis said that it will be highly complementary to its existing online and offline business in France. Robert Lerwill, CEO of Aegis, said:… Continue reading Aegis Acquires Direct Marketing Specialist