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The Evening Standard‘s display advertising sales director, Alan Brydon, has left the newspaper after almost four years in the job.It is not known if Brydon has a new position to move to, but his name has been linked with plans for the proposed News International freesheet, now registered as thelondonpaper.NI has appointed a headhunter to… Continue reading Brydon Exits Evening Standard Ad Sales

ITV has unveiled its line-up for September/October, with a host of big hitters returning to our television screens in the hope of rescuing the channel from what investment bank Morgan Stanley has called a “spiral of despair”.Caroline Quentin returns in the award-winning comedy/drama Life Begins alongside Alexander Armstrong, while the irrepressible David Jason dons his… Continue reading ITV Wheels Out Big Guns For Autumn

Advertisers will now have the chance to test their magazine creative work with the launch of IPC Advertising’s first major online creative testing facility for magazine advertisers in the UK.IPC Advertising will be working with Hamburg-based MediaAnalyser, who specialise in creative ways to manage and improve the quality of visual communications.The facility will offer advertisers… Continue reading Magazine Advertisers Given Chance To Test Creative Work

ITV will deliver “efficiency savings” of £100 million by the end of 2008 through “business re-engineering and operational reviews”, according to the latest trading update from the broadcaster. It will also launch a +1 channel for ITV2 on satellite and cable next year, fuelling speculation that the launch will be a holding platform for a… Continue reading ITV To Undertake Cost-Cutting Restructure

England’s nail biting 2-2 draw with Sweden in Cologne was the most watched match of the World Cup so far, pulling in a staggering 17.9 million adult viewers or an average of 57% of the adult television viewing population.As Michael Owen suffered an agonising knee injury, which has surely ended his Cup campaign, ITV1 scored… Continue reading England Score With Biggest World Cup Viewing Figures

Mobile TV broadcast subscribers worldwide will reach 102 million by the end of 2010, a giant leap from 3.4 million in 2006, according to reports by In-Stat. Recognising that using cellular networks to deliver content that millions want to watch simultaneously requires much greater bandwidth than is currently available, carriers are turning to mobile TV… Continue reading Mobile TV To Reach 102 Million Subscribers By 2010

Kiss FM, Emap’s Urban commercial radio station, has been fined a record £175,000 by Ofcom after the communications regulator upheld complaints about offensive and intrusive behaviour.The ten complaints, lodged at various points over 2005, concerned the scheduling of inappropriate material such as offensive language and sexual content, and ‘prank-calls’ where the ‘victim’ had not consented… Continue reading Kiss FM Gets Record Fine For ‘Offensive And Intrusive’ Behaviour

Measuring online adspend will become more accurate, as Nielsen Media Research and Nielsen//NetRatings collaborate to expand their coverage to almost 600 websites.Combining Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance data with Nielsen Media Research expenditure methodology, information on internet share of voice via the Nielsen Media Research suite of products should significantly improve.The new methodology brings Nielsen Media Research cost… Continue reading Online Adspend Measurement Set To Improve

As national daily newspapers see their readership figures slide, the Guardian has developed a new method of staying on top of changing consumer patterns with the launch of a downloadable and printable A4 PDF document.The free 8 to 12-page file, labelled G24, will be updated every 15 minutes and will feature news content from the… Continue reading Guardian Stays Ahead With Downloadable Format

Emap has agreed to sell off its French Consumer Magazines division, Emap France, to the Italian media group Mondadori for approximately £380 million. Emap announced its plans to sell its French operations in February, in order to return the cash generated to shareholders (see Emap To Sell French Operations). When the sale (conditional on the… Continue reading Sale Of Emap France Agreed