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Celebrity Love Island is stealing the hearts of reality TV fans, with online searches for ITV’s latest offering shown to have increased 10-fold, according to leading online competitive intelligence service, Hitwise.Currently the term “Celebrity Love Island” is receiving 0.020% of all online searches, compared with searches for Big Brother only attracting 0.008%.Traffic to the official… Continue reading Celebrity Love Island Wins Reality Fans’ Hearts Online

VNU Business Publications has launched ActiveHome magazine, providing readers with a plain-English, jargon-free guide to the latest in digital home entertainment technology.ActiveHome and its sister website, www.activehome.co.uk, provides an essential guide to would-be buyers of the best kit available, with the magazine showing its readers how to install and enjoy their new digital home equipment.The… Continue reading ActiveHome Launched To Explain Digital Technology

The internet and online technologies are increasing in popularity with older users; with more than half those aged 55 or over claiming that the internet has given them a new lease of life, using the medium to look for love online and play games. The annual Silver Surfers Day, supported by the European Union’s social… Continue reading Internet Attracting Older Users

Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) subscribers in the US are predicted to exceed 4.1 million by the end of 2005, generating over $1 billion in gross revenues, according to the latest data from TeleGeography Research. The recent advances in the technology has increased its popularity, with stunning growth resulting from VoIP’s capability of replacing home phone services of… Continue reading VoIP To Exceed 4.1 Million By End Of 2005

United Business Media is preparing to offload its 35% stake in Five, reports over the weekend have claimed, with 65% stakeholder, RTL Group, in line to purchase the remaining share for £200 million.The Sunday Express claims that the two groups have held talks over the deal, which could be completed within two months as UBM… Continue reading UBM Considers Sell Off Of Stake In Five

Former Daily Mirror editor, Piers Morgan, has secured an agreement with Quantum Business Media to purchase its Press Gazette title, working in a partnership with PR heavyweight Matthew Freud to take control of the trade magazine for around £1 million.The deal is due for completion within days, according to reports, with Morgan telling the Times… Continue reading Morgan Scoops Press Gazette From Quantum

Sky’s chief operating officer, Richard Freudenstein, has confirmed that the broadcaster is considering several redundancies as part of its on-going effieciency review, revealed by NewsLine earlier this month.It is believed that staff cuts will be made in the company’s finance and marketing departments, as well as within PR, IT, engineering and human resources.However, reports this… Continue reading Sky Financial Review Could Cost Jobs

Channel 4 will launch the sixth series of Big Brother tonight, marking the broadcaster’s largest ever cross platform, multimedia execution of the long running reality franchise.The new series will see Channel 4’s New Media division rekindle its relationship with Real Networks to launch a 24-hour online channel for the programme, as well as a mobile… Continue reading Channel 4 Gears Up For Biggest Ever Brother

MediaTel INSIGHT’s well attended Future of Digital TV seminar was held during April, bringing together a panel of respected industry specialists to discuss issues central to the media industry, with particular importance placed on the impending digital switchover. Prior to the seminar, the INSIGHT team carried out the first survey of the UK’s top buying… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Media Healthcheck – April 2005

Financial services company, Goldman Sachs has predicted 2005 to be a bullish year for online advertising, forecasting the market to increase by 28% year on year, to reach $12.3 billion. The report, based on 2,000 surveys by market research firm Synovate, estimates that online advertising could account for 7% of total advertising expenditure by 2009,… Continue reading Goldman Sachs Predicts Online Adspend To Rise By 28% In 2005