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On-portal mobile game revenue grew 61% year on year to $151 million in Q4 2006, according to new research from Telephia. Nearly 17.4 million mobile customers downloaded a mobile game last quarter, up 45% from a total of 12 million downloaders a year ago, says Telephia. On-portal mobile game revenues also account for 74% of… Continue reading Mobile Game Revenue Increases

MediaTel Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Kirkham – the former CEO of FTSE 250 company TNS – as its non-executive chairman, with immediate effect.Mike has spent over 35 years in the research business, and was CEO of TNS from 2001 until his retirement in mid 2006, by which time the company… Continue reading Ex TNS CEO Joins MediaTel as Chairman

IPC’s Look magazine is to launch a bus advertising campaign covering all key UK conurbations, including West Yorkshire, Tyne & Wear, Belfast, Strathclyde, East Midlands and Greater London.The creative for the campaign has been developed by Hurrell & Dawson and the activity has been planned and bought by MediaCom.Sue Coffin, Look marketing consultant, said: “Look… Continue reading Look Launches Bus Ad Campaign

Five’s Controller of features and entertainment, Ben Frow, is to leave the broadcaster.During his three years at Five, Frow created and launched some of the channel’s most popular series with shows such as The Hotel Inspector; Diet Doctors; How To Be A Property Developer and Build A New Life In The Country.Five’s managing director, content,… Continue reading Frow Leaves Five

The decision to move popular US import drama Grey’s Anatomy to Sunday night hasn’t seen the show pick up any extra viewers for Five.The two-hour double bill opening for the second season attracted ratings of 746,000 and 768,000, down by nearly a million compared to 1.7 million for the opening episode of the first season.Channel… Continue reading Schedule Reshuffle Does No Favours For Five

TNS has announced that it achieved underlying revenue growth of 2.5% for the full year 2006, with the majority of its businesses performing well. Underlying revenue growth for Europe as a whole was 3.2%, with TNS saying that this represents an acceptable performance given slower market growth in developed markets in Western Europe. The UK… Continue reading TNS Records 2006 Revenue Growth

Point Topic’s latest BroadBand User Consumer Survey has highlighted growing dissatisfaction amongst UK consumers with the internet service they receive from their ISPs. Dr Katja Mueller, Research Director at Point Topic, said: “The change since our last survey is striking. Within 10 months the satisfaction levels have declined significantly. “From 92% of respondents saying they… Continue reading Growing Consumer Dissatisfaction With UK ISPs

Julian Bellamy, controller of BBC3, has returned to Channel 4 as head of programmes, whilst Kevin Lygo has been promoted to the new role of director of television and content at the channel.Bellamy, who joined BBC3 in 2005 following two years with Channel 4, will report directly to Lygo and have commissioning responsibility for programming… Continue reading Bellamy Returns To Channel 4

United Business Media’s (UBM) revenues from continuing operations grew by 17% to £739.1 million in 2006, up from £633.7 million in 2005, whilst operating profit rose by 18% to £149 million, up from £126.7 million in 2005. By the end of 2006, the proportion of revenues and profits generated from events was 29% and 43.3%… Continue reading UBM 2006 Revenues Grow

The BBC and IBM have made a strategic alliance which follows the signing of an agreement for a framework outlining several joint projects between the two companies.The BBC says that one of the first projects will focus on applying state-of-the-art image/video search technologies to CBeebies and CBBC programmes.This IBM research system, code-named “Marvel”, has the… Continue reading BBC Strikes Deal With IBM