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Carphone Warehouse has announced that it is to acquire AOL UK for £370 million. Under the agreement, Carphone Warehouse will acquire AOL’s customer base in the UK as well as the supporting management and infrastructure, whilst AOL will provide co-branded portal, content and other audience services and will manage the online advertising sales for Carphone… Continue reading Carphone Warehouse To Acquire AOL UK

talkSPORT has secured the exclusive live commentary rights to 32 top-flight domestic football games on Saturday afternoons next season for three seasons, after winning an auction for the rights organised by the Premier League.The win makes the speech station the first national commercial radio station to broadcast live top-flight domestic football games since the BBC… Continue reading talkSPORT Wins Exclusive Football Rights

The proportion of UK households with broadband will almost double, from 34% at the end of 2005, to 64% three years later, according to a new report from Point Topic. Remote rural areas where penetration is lowest at the moment will grow fastest and catch up with the rest of the country to some extent… Continue reading 64% Of UK Households On Broadband By 2008

VNU, the parent company of Nielsen Media Research, has announced that it is proposing to acquire the 39.5% stake in NetRatings that it does not already own. Nielsen is currently increasing its efforts to integrate its TV ratings systems with NetRatings online audience estimates to make a product that would enable advertisers and agencies to… Continue reading VNU Could Acquire Rest Of NetRatings

Internet search engine Google has surged ahead yet again, with the latest figures from Nielsen//NetRatings showing that 706 million searches were undertaken in the UK in August, 30 million more monthly searches than six months ago.This 4.4% increase in the use of Google in Britain means that 16,000 searches are conducted every minute in the… Continue reading Google Boosts Its Internet Dominance

MediaTel Group, the UK’s leading online media intelligence company, celebrates its 25th birthday this month.Established in 1981 in a small office in London’s the Strand, the company’s main objective was to make media data available quickly and efficiently, which fuelled its early adoption of the internet in 1995.Speaking about the company’s early days, managing director… Continue reading MediaTel Group Celebrates 25 Years In The Industry

All UK advertising sales for SCI FI, the science fiction television channel, will be taken over by Sky Media, the advertising sales division of BSkyB, in the New Year.Following the addition of the formerly independent SCI FI, the Sky Media portfolio will account for 13.1% of adult impacts, rising to more than 15% among 16-34s… Continue reading Sky Takes Control Of SCI FI Channel’s Ad Sales

Google has acquired YouTube, the video sharing website, for $1.65 billion (£884 million) in a stock-for-stock transaction. When the acquisition has been completed, YouTube will retain its brand identity and strengthen and complement Google’s own video business. In a statement, Google said that the number of Google shares to be issued in the transaction will… Continue reading Google Acquires YouTube For $1.65 Billion

US terrestrial radio operators experienced a 5% sequential increase in unique visitors to their websites in August, according to the JPMorgan & Co Internet Radio Scorecard. The report shows that internet radio operators were down 3.5% during the month, with unique visitors on internet radio operators’ sites increasing 1.5% each month since August 2005. Meanwhile,… Continue reading Visitors To US Internet Radio Sites Decrease In August

European internet users’ time spent online has overtaken that spent reading newspapers and magazines, according to a new report from JupiterResearch. The report shows that European users now spend an average of four hours per week online, compared with just two hours in 2003, while time spent on newspapers and magazines is just three hours.… Continue reading Europeans Spend More Time Online Than Reading Newspapers