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Havas has announced that its revenues for the third quarter of the year have risen 7.3% year on year to €368 million (£258 million). There was improvement in organic growth, at 9.3% in Q3, after 5.4% in Q2, which rose to 6.0% for the first nine months of 2007. Net new businesss continued its positive… Continue reading Havas Q3 Revenues Up 7.3%

Publicis has announced that its consolidated revenue for Q3 2007 rose 10.8% to €1,122 million, compared with €1,013 million for the same period in 2006. Organic growth in the third quarter was 4.6%, in line with the group’s expectations. In the third quarter, 43.4% of Groupe revenue came from North America, 37.3% from Europe, 11.1%… Continue reading Publicis Revenues Up Almost 11%

A new report from the Cinema Advertising Council (CAC) has revealed that US cinema advertising industry revenues of CAC members grew by 15% to $455,661,000 in 2006 as compared to a total of $394,830,000 in 2005. Clifford Marks, president and chairman of CAC, said: “Marketers are looking for new, highly-effective, targeted opportunities to engage harder… Continue reading US Cinema Advertising Council Members Report 15% Adspend Increase

BSkyB is considering giving up nearly one fifth of its ITV voting rights in an effort to avoid competition regulations and hold onto its 17.9% share in the commercial broadcasting giant. In a letter to the Competition Commission, the satellite broadcaster outlined plans to place three per cent of its voting right with an independent… Continue reading Sky Could Give Up Some ITV Voting Rights

A closely fought battle saw 60s medical drama The Royal narrowly edge out Antiques Roadshow and Top Gear for Sunday night’s 8pm slot.The spin-off show managed to grab an average of 6.2 million adult viewers for its duration, with a 25% share of the available television audience. Over on BBC One, Antiques Roadshow pulled in… Continue reading Medical Drama Edges Out Antiques & Cars For Ratings Win

The founder of early ISP Pipex, Peter Dawe, is to launch Babel TV – a device combining a Freeview set-top box, PVR and broadband connection.The device is a regular Freeview box, with a personal video recorder (PVR) and the ability to surf the internet via a wired Ethernet connection. All that is required is a… Continue reading Pipex Founder Launches New IPTV Service

GCap Media has won the national airtime sales contract for GMG Radio’s Smooth, Real and Rock Radio brands.GCap already manages the national revenue for GMG Radio’s two Century FM stations in the North West and North East of England and will take on the contract for the additional nine stations from 1 January next year.GMG… Continue reading GCap Wins National Airtime Sales Contract For GMG Brands

Last night’s Panorama Special, looking at the kidnap and release after four months in captivity of BBC reporter Alan Johnston, won the 9pm ratings war last night, with a peak of 3.1 million adult viewers (a 16.3% share of the audience).The show had an average of three million adult viewers (a 15.4% share) who stuck… Continue reading 3.1 Million Watch Alan Johnston Kidnap Doco

The NRS has released the first set of Time Spent Reading data, revealing that a weekday (Monday-Friday) issue of a daily newspaper is read for an average of 40 minutes.The average Saturday newspaper is read for an average of 60 minutes, with 42% of readers spending an hour or more.The data also shows that the… Continue reading NRS Releases First Set Of Time Spent Reading Data

The Times‘ online offering has overtaken the Daily Mail and the Sun‘s websites to become the second busiest newspaper site in the UK in September, according to latest figures from the ABCe.Following an almost 22.5% increase in traffic, Times Online recorded its highest ever unique user* figure of over 12.5 million for the month, an… Continue reading More Users For Times Online Than The Daily Mail And The Sun’s Websites