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Marc Mendoza, Media Planning Group managing partner, has been announced as the latest addition to the panel of the MediaTel Group ‘Future of Consumer Magazines’ seminar.This follows last week’s announcement that David Hepworth, editorial director of Development Hell, is also joining the panel to discuss the big themes in consumer magazines.They join fellow panelists Paul… Continue reading Marc Mendoza Joins MediaTel Group Seminar Panel

Publicis groupe recorded a 6.3% increase in revenues to €4.4 billion (£2.9 billion) for 2006. Publicis also announced fourth quarter revenues of €1.25 million (£822 million), up 4.8% on the same period in 2005. Maurice Levy, Publicis chairman and CEO, said: “We have a good outlook for 2007 with advertisers regaining confidence. “We will be… Continue reading Publicis Revenues Increase For 2006

Britain’s pensioners have become a nation of silver surfers, with the internet overtaking more traditional pastimes such as DIY and gardening.According to new research from the insurance company AXA, Britons are amongst the top five web users in the 11 nations surveyed for its global study.Activities such as chatting to friends, emailing, searching for information,… Continue reading Britain’s Pensioners Becoming Silver Surfers

News Corporation has announced that its profit for the last three months of 2006 dropped to $822 million (£417 million). News Corp, owner of the Sun, the News of the World and the Times, said that revenues in the quarter rose 18% to $7.8 billion (£4 billion). News Corp attributed the fall in profits to… Continue reading News Corp Profits Down

Britain’s pensioners have become a nation of silver surfers, with the internet overtaking more traditional pastimes such as DIY and gardening. According to new research from the insurance company AXA, Britons are amongst the top five web users in the 11 nations surveyed for its global study. Activities such as chatting to friends, emailing, searching… Continue reading Britain’s Pensioners Becoming Silver Surfers

Real, the monthly women’s lifestyle magazine published by Essential Publishing, has closed after a large year on year decline in circulation.Real changed from a fortnightly to monthly format last month. At the last ABCs, covering January to June 2006, Real‘s circulation fell by nearly 60,000 copies year on year, or around 29%, leaving it with… Continue reading Essential’s Real Magazine Closes

ITV is to sell its 9.9% shareholding in Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds at £5,000 a share. If the offer goes through it will result in cash proceeds of £17.4 million. Since the merger creating ITV plc (see ITV Merger Receives Final Green Light From Shareholders) in 2004, ITV has been carrying out a… Continue reading ITV To Sell Stake In Liverpool

Virgin Radio has teamed up with Renault Megane to launch a new interactive on air promotion to raise awareness of the new Megane Sport range.The week long promotion, negotiated by Carat Sponsorship, began yesterday on the Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show and is intended to appeal to the show’s predominantly 25-44 year old audience.The promotion will… Continue reading Virgin Radio Launches Renault Promotion

An HD for All campaign has been launched made up of a coalition of the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sony, with the aim of getting high definition television made available on Freeview.At the moment there is not enough bandwidth available on the Freeview platform to support high definition channels.Ofcom has argued that HDTV channels… Continue reading Campaign Begins To Get HD On Freeview

More than half of communications industry executives believe that Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) can generate significant revenue within the first three years of service, according to findings of a survey by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey of nearly 350 executives from telecommunications, broadcasting and media companies across 46 countries in the Americas,… Continue reading IPTV Could Generate Significant Revenue Within 3 Years