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Aegis Group has reported a first-half pre-tax profit of £41.3 million, up 8.7% from £38 million a year earlier. The group also reported organic revenue growth of 9.6%, whilst its revenue was up 7.7% to £499 million. Aegis Media and its market research company Synovate both delivered revenue growth ahead of their markets, at 9.8%… Continue reading Aegis First-Half Profits Up

The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to conduct a review of the imposed contract rights renewal (CRR) on ITV.The review, to be conducted in partnership with Ofcom, is scheduled for early next year.The OFT said that further information will be published “when the review commences”.ITV responded to the news in a… Continue reading OFT To Conduct Review Of CRR

Emap Advertising has announced a major new deal with Debenhams to sponsor the FHM2 supplement available with FHM‘s September issue.Debenhams is partnering with FHM2 – an integral bound in supplement, which explores and expands on a core value of FHM every month – to target its male audience with the aim of positioning itself as… Continue reading Emap Advertising Announces FHM2 Sponsorship Deal

The new TV ad campaign from eBay will use 10-second advertisements featuring a live-feed direct from the eBay auction website.The ads, which show real-time auction listing, are the first work produced by Albion since it won the account in July.The campaign breaks on September 9 and retains the eBay animated Logo people, although they have… Continue reading eBay To Launch Live Ads

Travel, communities and research websites receive the most click-throughs from search engines whilst research, travel destinations and government sites rely most on search for visitors, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings.NetRatings said that in July 2007, Britons clicked on over 1.3 billion search results – equating to over 29,000 every single minute.The multi-category travel sector… Continue reading UK Search Engine Click-Throughs Revealed

Travel, communities and research websites receive the most click-throughs from search engines whilst research, travel destinations and government sites rely most on search for visitors, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. NetRatings said that in July 2007, Britons clicked on over 1.3 billion search results – equating to over 29,000 every single minute. The multi-category… Continue reading UK Search Engine Click-Throughs Revealed

Virgin Media is reported to be considering launching a news channel aimed at rivalling Sky News.The Virgin News channel, if given the go-ahead, would see ITN providing its content, with Virgin understood to also be looking at launching a broadband news channel.Earlier this year, Sky pulled its basic channel package – including Sky News, Sky… Continue reading Virgin Media Could Launch News Channel

Christian O’Connell has signed a new two year contract with Virgin Radio that will keep him at the station until the end of 2009.He joined Virgin Radio in January 2006 from Xfm and his current deal would have expired at the end of this year.The new deal comes shortly after Paul Jackson, Virgin Radio chief… Continue reading Christian O’Connell Signs New Deal At Virgin Radio

BSkyB is mulling over the idea of launching a standalone broadband service which would not require subscribers to sign up to one of its pay-TV services.The new service, which could launch under the Picnic Broadband brand, is still in a testing phase and has no set launch date.The broadcaster recently announced that its broadband customer… Continue reading BSkyB Could Launch Standalone Broadband Service

Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft has resigned after 18 months in the job, meaning that the paper has its fourth editor in just over two years.Wheatcroft will be replaced by Ian MacGregor, deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph, who left his job as deputy editor of the London Evening Standard a year ago.No reason was… Continue reading Wheatcroft Resigns As Sunday Telegraph Editor