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Outdoor media giant JCDecaux has announced strong earnings growth during what chairman Jean-Francois Decaux described as a “milestone” 2003.The group also predicted increased growth throughout 2004 as it published full-year results today, announcing “record results” and “the highest margins among the international players.”The company’s net income increased by 57.3% to €40.9 million during the last… Continue reading JCDecaux Signals Healthy Growth During 2003

Amid a slow trading day for media stocks, Independent News & Media made the day’s largest rise, pushing up by 1.85% to 137žp after ditching the broadsheet edition of its flagship daily newspaper to produce a tabloid-only budget special yesterday (see Independent Ditches Broadsheet For Budget Special).Daily Mail & General Trust also managed a rise,… Continue reading Sharewatch: INM Rises After Ditching Broadsheet Edition

MTV has secured Motorola as the exclusive provider of wireless content for a wide-ranging cross-media campaign featuring a number of special characters dubbed MTV Gimps.The deal extends the multimillion dollar marketing alliance formed between the two companies last year, and is designed to encourage consumers to use their mobile phones in more innovative ways.The campaign… Continue reading MTV Teams Up With Motorola For Cross-Media Blitz

The shortlist of candidates for the position of BBC chairman is understood to have been whittled down to seven candidates, including former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade and political TV stalwart David Dimbleby.Interviews for the position, which has been vacant since Gavyn Davies resigned over the Hutton report in January, will be held next… Continue reading Shortlist For BBC Chairman Whittled Down To Seven

Television spot advertising expenditure in Western Europe will rise by 33% in real terms over the coming decade, according to a new report from ZenithOptimedia.Advertising expenditure stood at $22.0 billion in 2003 and is expected to grow to $22.6 billion this year; by 2012 revenues should hit $29.5 billion, says the Television In Western Europe… Continue reading European Pay-TV Revenues To Exceed Adspend In 2004

Top Up TV, the new pay-television service offering Freeview customers a range of ten additional channels, has announced that it will launch on 31 March.The new service will initially only be available to viewers using old ITV Digital boxes, requiring a viewing card to decode the Top Up TV signal. The channel line-up, including E4,… Continue reading Top Up TV Confirms End Of March Launch Date

Universal Pictures is to promote the DVD release of its Christmas blockbuster, Love Actually, by illuminating London busses with the latest in outdoor advertising technology.The campaign will see red heart shapes nearly two metres high, pulsating with light, mounted on twenty of the capital’s busses throughout March and into April. The effect is made possible… Continue reading Outdoor Advertising Is Booming On The Buses

The direct mail industry saw expenditure rise by a nominal 0.6% year on year during the last quarter of 2003, according to the latest figures from the Direct Mail Information Service.The results show that full-year expenditure rose by 2.2% to more than £2,431 million, as the difficult economic conditions continued to force advertisers to seek… Continue reading Direct Mail Pushes The Envelope As Expenditure Rises

Less than one-third of US households with dial-up internet access are interested in upgrading to broadband in the next twelve months, suggesting a significant decline in the broadband subscriber growth rate. This is according to Parks Associates’ Trends In US Broadband Adoption report, which finds that whilst almost half of dial-up users were inclined to… Continue reading US Broadband Uptake To Slow, Says Parks Associates

American publishing giant Gannett has confirmed its intention to join the long list of potential bidders vying to take control of the Daily Telegraph from beleaguered Hollinger International. Gannett, which owns UK regional newspaper publisher Newsquest, is understood to have told analysts in New York that it is examining a number of assets that would… Continue reading Gannett Considers Telegraph Swoop