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The Evening Standard, which has seen competition from the free afternoon papers in London over the past year, is to cut around 30 vendors from the capital’s streets.The move would see the paper’s street sales workforce shrink by about 8%, whilst parent company Associated Newspapers is said to be calling for voluntary redundancies among drivers… Continue reading Evening Standard Cuts Vendors In London

Sky has teamed up with News Group Newspapers (NGN), publisher of the Sun and News Of The World, to launch 24-7 Football, a new on-demand service that offers video highlights and goal clips from the Barclays Premier League and UEFA Champions League on mobile phones.In addition, each of the 92 Barclays Premier League matches broadcast… Continue reading Sky And News Group Launch Mobile Football Highlights

US online consumer spending was up 23% year on year in the second quarter of 2007, according to new figures from comScore. The biggest gains were enjoyed by sales of consoles and video games, up by 159% year on year, with sports and fitness (58%), consumer electronics (51%) and event tickets (44%) also experiencing year… Continue reading US Online Consumer Spending Increases

The new free men’s magazine created by former FHM editor, Mike Soutar, is to be called ShortList, and will hit the streets on Thursday 20 September.According to reports, 360,000 of the title’s 500,000 copies will be distributed in London, with the rest to be given out to commuters in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Leeds.ShortList… Continue reading Free Men’s Mag ShortList Grows

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a Virgin Media ad campaign which compared its services with that of Sky.The ASA upheld the complaints from Sky over Virgin Media’s “The real deal” campaign, saying that the ads were misleading.One of the complaints said that showing the supposed “real price” was misleading because it implied that… Continue reading Virgin Media Ad Campaign Banned

Dow Jones has agreed to a takeover by News Corporation in a deal worth approximately $5.6 billion (£2.8 billion). About 37% of the Bancroft family, who control 64% of Dow Jones voting stock, agreed to the News Corp offer of $60 per share. Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp, said: “I am deeply gratified… Continue reading Dow Jones Agrees Sale

Guardian Media Group (GMG) has published its annual report, showing that its turnover from continuing operations increased to £716.1 million for the financial year ending April 1 2007, up from £700.3 million the previous year. GMG, which owns the Guardian, Observer and Manchester Evening News and the Smooth Radio network, added that Profit before taxation… Continue reading GMG Reports Profits Increase

Trinity Mirror is to sell 27 regional newspapers and nine niche titles in London and the south-east for £18.75 million. The titles, including the South London Press, North London and Herts Newspapers and the Yellow Advertiser, will be sold to Tindle Newspapers. Last month, Trinity Mirror sold 25 weekly regional newspapers to Daily Mail and… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Sells 27 South-East Titles

US outdoor advertising industry revenue sustained last year’s strong growth trend with an 8% increase in the first three months of 2007, accounting for $1.6 billion in total spending, according to figures from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA). Stephen Freitas, chief marketing officer for the OAAA, said: “The industry’s growth has remained consistent… Continue reading US Outdoor Ad Revenue Sustains Strong Growth

By 2011, eMarketer estimates there will be more than 200 million broadband internet users in the US, 92% of whom will regularly watch video online. At that time the broadband audience will be two-thirds the size of the total US TV audience, up from less than half the TV audience in 2006, says the online… Continue reading Traditional TV Model To Change Significantly