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GCap Media has teamed up with software giants, Microsoft Windows, allowing users to download the song they’re currently listening to and search from 500,000 old and new tracks, which they can mix, organise and burn.The £750,000 deal starts this month, with Windows XP sponsoring all streaming media activity across the musicradio.com and classicfm.com websites, during… Continue reading GCap And Microsoft To Offer Legal Downloads

ITV’s annual fee payable to industry regulator, Ofcom, has been cut by £135 million to less than £80 million, as part of a review into licence fees by the watchdog, which takes into account the increasing growth of digital TV.The broadcaster paid £215 million for its 12 licences in 2004, astounding city analysts who predicted… Continue reading ITV Has Licence Fees Slashed

A record number of text messages were sent during May, with a massive 2.63 billion texts transmitted, according to the Mobile Data Association (MDA), representing an increase of 20% year on year. May also saw the highest average daily figure recorded to date, with 85 million messages being sent per day. Earlier this month saw… Continue reading Record Number Of Texts Sent In May

Consumers are increasingly using mobile phones as their primary means of communication, with new survey from Arbitron showing that 23.3% of respondents claimed to be mobile phone only users, while 23.1% said that, although they had access to a landline, they relied on their mobile. A study released earlier this year from global market research… Continue reading Rise Of Youth Mobile Market

Readers of August’s edition of top music magazine, Q, will be given the chance to listen to over a million tunes for free with online downloading service, Napster.The initiative will see Emap’s flagship music magazine boast the biggest covermounted CD ever, featuring 15 summer tracks from artists such as, the Flaming Lips, The Magic Numbers,… Continue reading Q To Draw Readers With A Million Free Songs

Cable connections in US broadband households are declining, with research and consulting firm, Strategy Analytics, predicting digital subscriber lines (DSL), fibre and other types of broadband to make up over 10% of the market by 2010. Strategy Analytics forecasts broadband households in the US to rise to 77.6 million by 2010, up from 34.1 million… Continue reading DSL Overtaking Cable Broadband In US

Virgin Atlantic has become the first non-radio firm in Britain to jump aboard the podcasting bandwagon, offering customers themed programmes covering travel and sightseeing which can be downloaded before a trip and enjoyed either en-route, or while customers explore their holiday destination.The move, described by Virgin as the latest in its history of “firsts,” continues… Continue reading Airline Latest To Jump On Podcast Craze

Cinema advertising in the US is increasing in popularity with advertisers, with estimates released by the Cinema Advertising Council (CAC) showing that advertisers invested $438 million on cinema adverts in 2004, an increase of 23% over 2003. These figures make cinema one of the fastest growing major advertising media in the US, according to the… Continue reading Advertisers Latch On To Cinema Advertising

ITV is to create a series of interactive applications, running across all digital platforms, to support some of its highest profile audience-participation shows, such as The Great British series.The broadcaster will work with interactive technology specialist, emuse, to roll out the new services, providing synchronised applications regardless of the viewer’s chosen digital platform.Working in what… Continue reading ITV To Offer More Interaction After Deal With Emuse

TNS Media Intelligence has predicted advertising expenditure in the US to reach $145.3 billion in 2005, up 3.4% year on year; not quite the impressive growth of 9.8% enjoyed by the industry in 2004. Speaking at the AdWatch conference in Manhattan, Steven Fredericks, TNS president and chief executive officer said that he was: “encouraged that… Continue reading TNS Predicts Muted Adspend Growth In 2005