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Competition in the fledgling men’s weekly magazine market looks set to hot up later this year with news that Richard Desmond’s Express Newspapers is planning the launch of a new title provisionally called KO!.A spokesman for the publisher’s parent company, Northern & Shell, confirmed this morning that the name KO! was registered last month in… Continue reading Desmond To Knock Out Competition In Men’s Weekly Market

ITV Sales has strengthened its advertiser relationships team with two key appointments ahead of plans for a major client marketing drive to improve its image.ITV has hired two senior account directors and is looking for another high-profile agency figure to head the twelve-strong team, which was created following the merger of Carlton and Granada to… Continue reading ITV Raids Agencies To Bolster Advertiser Relationships Team

Emap is to become the first magazine publisher to strip out bulk sales figures for its consumer titles as part of move to increase transparency in next week’s Audit Bureau of Circulations release.The company will submit only ‘active purchase’ data for its portfolio of magazines, which fall into the Emap Consumer Media, Emap Performance and… Continue reading Emap Strips Out Bulk Sales Figures For Consumer Titles

Women’s monthly Elle will slim down this summer as publisher Hachette Filipacchi creates a new-look travel edition of the popular fashion and beauty title to entice busy readers to adopt it as part of their hectic lifestyles.The new edition will carry the same content as its parent title, and will be available at all travel… Continue reading Hachette Slims Down Elle For Travel Size Edition

French advertising giant, Havas, has today posted only a small increase in organic revenue for the second quarter of 2004, despite improved conditions in the UK and European markets.Group revenues, after currency rate adjustments, were up by only 0.6% to €393 million for the period March to June 2004, after being dogged as expected by… Continue reading Havas Revenues Held Back By Poor Growth In United States

Media super-regulator Ofcom has slammed GMG Radio for a series of on-air commercials claiming that DAB digital radio provided CD-quality sound, following a number of complaints from particularly technology savvy listeners.The commercial, which was broadcast on Jazz FM as part of a wider London-centric campaign, attracted complaints from nine listeners, who argued that DAB did… Continue reading GMG Slammed For Misleading Digital Radio Commercial

The Sunday Times is to enhance its football coverage with the publication of a 32-page guide to the Premiership, distributed free with the paper on 8 August and offering readers insight into the minds of key players, as well as some of the season’s main highlights.The Sunday Times Premiership Guide will include a series of… Continue reading Sunday Times Boosts Sport Coverage With Football Guide

A further three million people have gone online over the last three months in a move than takes the total number of internet users in the UK to almost 28 million, according to the latest study from Mintel.The figures reveal one of the largest recent growth spurts for internet penetration in the UK, which jumped… Continue reading Internet Usage Soars With Almost 28 Million Now Online

ITV chairman, Sir Peter Burt, has once again reaffirmed his commitment to the broadcaster’s embattled chief executive, Charles Allen, telling shareholders and staff that replacing the broadcast boss does not feature on his to-do list.Burt has also quashed rumours that former BBC chief executive, Greg Dyke, is being groomed as Allen’s replacement. Speaking to the… Continue reading Burt Underlines Commitment To Allen As Chief Executive

ITV chairman, Sir Peter Burt, has once again reaffirmed his commitment to the broadcaster’s embattled chief executive, Charles Allen, telling shareholders and staff that replacing the broadcast boss does not feature on his to-do list. Burt has also quashed rumours that former BBC chief executive, Greg Dyke, is being groomed as Allen’s replacement. Speaking to… Continue reading Burt Underlines Commitment To Allen As Chief Executive