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Outdoor media specialist Clear Channel has enhanced its portfolio with the acquisition of the UK arm of Van Wagner. Among 70 other prestigious sites, Van Wagner owns one of London’s most recognised landmarks, the LED screen in Piccadilly Circus.The acquisition brings two new formats to Clear Channel’s portfolio with the large format Mega 96-sheet and… Continue reading Outdoor Giants Are Clear Winners

GCap has reported a fall in profits with annual pre-tax revenue to the end of March down 40% to £22.2 million. On a statutory basis, including the effect of amortisation and other charges, the company made a loss before tax of £47.9 million. One of the main reasons for the slump is said to be… Continue reading Revamp Renders GCap Profits Down

Following an 18-month bidding process, Viacom has clinched a deal with Transport for London (TfL) to retain management of its outdoor advertising, as predicted earlier this month on NewsLine.Viacom beat rivals including JC Decaux to secure the contract – the world’s biggest ever outdoor deal thought to be worth £1.5 billion over eight and a… Continue reading Viacom Clinches Tube Contract

Media group Emap has announced a 9% rise in pre-tax profits to £223 million for the year ending March 2005. Underlying revenues were up 8% to £1.154 million. Performance varied across Emap’s different divisions. Within the UK consumer magazine sector, underlying revenue rose by 3% (or 7% including new launches). Weekly titles, such as new… Continue reading Revenue Rise For Emap

Sony USA is currently producing 750,000 Blu-ray DVDs every month, with production expected to rise to over five million discs per month by October of this year. The increase will be made possible by the adding of more production lines to the three already in existence, which have a capacity of 25,000 single-layer 25GB Blu-ray… Continue reading Sony Blu-ray Production Grows

UK ISP Wanadoo will become Orange in a re-branding exercise by France Telecom costing an estimated £130 million. As part of the plan to homogenise the brand, there will be advertising campaigns across the media platforms to say goodbye to Wanadoo and welcome Orange. Three variants of the ads have been created to market the… Continue reading Wanadoo Makes Way For Orange

In the four weeks ending May 20, older people, or ‘silver surfers’, made up 15.7% of visits to all categories of website, according to the latest analysis from Hitwise UK, the online competitive intelligence service. Silver surfers – people aged 55 or over – were attracted most to Google, followed by MSN Hotmail and then… Continue reading Favourite Websites Of The Silver Surfers

City A.M. has added another string to its bow by offering a free mobile podcast to commuters with Bluetooth mobiles at London’s Waterloo and Liverpool Street stations.It all starts this evening at 5.30pm at Waterloo – Liverpool Street takes part later in the week – with animated commercials on Titan Transvision screens urging passers-by to… Continue reading Bluetooth Meets Its Waterloo

Big Brother was battered by Eurovision on Saturday as the song contest picked up an average of 7.4 million adult viewers, a 36.5% share of all adults watching television at the time.Well over 9 million adults watched the finale as Finland’s Lordi romped home with their outrageous brand of theatrical heavy metal.In contrast, Big Brother… Continue reading Eurovision Trounces Big Brother

A series of huge flashing lights are to greet high-flying business travellers as they drive in or out of Heathrow. The six-foot-tall 3D lights are part of an advertising installation for Xerox, which aims to raise the profile of the company’s colour-printing solutions for businesses.According to Henrik Bustrup, Xerox’s European ad manager: “With the use… Continue reading Xerox Lights Up The Skies