BBC1 has extended its annual ratings lead over ITV1, with the success of the World Cup, extra investment in drama and more landmark factual programmes helping the channel to increase its share of viewing during 2002.Despite the recent success of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and Popstars: The Rivals, ITV has been… Continue reading BBC1 Extends Annual Ratings Lead Over ITV1
As 2002 drew to a close, US online consumer sales (excluding auctions) were on track to total $74 billion for the year, according to research by comScore Media Metrix. Despite economic uncertainty and a generally disappointing Christmas for the retail sector, online commerce experienced growth of 39% last year as the number of internet shoppers… Continue reading ECommerce Market Goes From Strength To Strength
Has There Been A U-Turn On Global Media Strategy?It seems that the big media players are in trouble and a lot of this could be to do with the exploitation of content rights, says a new report from Accenture.UK Radio Listeners Turn To New TechnologiesListening to radio via new technologies, such as mobile phones, the… Continue reading On MediaTel Insight Today…
The market for paid online content in the US was worth $361 million in the third quarter of 2002, a rise of 14% on the previous quarter and a 105.3% increase year on year. Research from the Online Publishers Association and comScore Networks found that the number of US consumers paying for web content climbed… Continue reading US Spend On Internet Content Doubles In A Year
IPC tx has launched its biggest ever consumer marketing campaign to promote its weekly What’s On TV magazine.The promotion runs for six weeks and gives readers the chance to ‘Live For Free In 2003’ by winning a range of prizes including a family car, free holidays for a year, £15,000 towards a mortgage and a… Continue reading IPC Backs What’s On TV With Biggest Ever Promotion
Listening to radio via new technologies, such as mobile phones, the internet and radio via television, is on the increase in the UK, according to an analysis of the latest RAJAR data by the Radio Advertising Bureau. Via television Radio listening in these new environments is proving popular and is on the increase. Fifteen percent… Continue reading UK Radio Listeners Turn To New Technologies
A couple of years ago the promise of a ‘convergence’ of traditional media content with that of the internet and interactive media was the holy grail for many media corporations. Indeed, Time Warner and AOL forged their record-breaking merger largely on the promise of a global, fully ‘converged’ 21st century media empire. Things have so… Continue reading Has There Been A U-Turn On The Global Media Strategy?
Vivendi Universal has moved to ease its debt burden by selling the US educational publisher Houghton Mifflin to an investment consortium for $1.66 billion. The sale, which was initially announced in November, is a welcome fillip for Vivendi which is coming off a disastrous 2002 during which its stock and reputation took a battering. The… Continue reading Vivendi Completes Sale Of US Publisher
BSkyB was one of the best performers in yesterday’s media market, with shares rising 3.52% to close at £6.61˝ following reports of good Christmas viewing figures for satellite and cable TV (see Multichannel Broadcasters Overtake ITV1 At Christmas).Former Mercury chief executive, Duncan Lewis, has reportedly ruled himself out of the running for the chairmanship of… Continue reading Sharewatch
NTL, the financially troubled cable company, is being sued by Morgan Stanley over £7 million in allegedly unpaid fees dating back three years.The legal move comes as a blow to NTL which is in the process of a complicated financial restructuring. Morgan Stanley remains one of the firm’s most prominent advisers but has evidently lost… Continue reading NTL Sued By Banking Adviser
