ITV has confirmed its intention to continue broadcasting its Saturday night dating show, Blind Date, despite the announcement that its host of 18 years, Cilla Black, is set to leave at the end of the current series.Black announced her departure live on air during last Saturday night’s show, prompting speculation that the programme, which has… Continue reading ITV Backs Blind Date After Cilla’s Departure
The prospects for US advertising growth in 2003 are being treated with ‘cautious optimism’ by analysts at Merrill Lynch, mirroring the broker’s outlook at the beginning of 2002. It is forecasting a 4.0% growth for the US and 3.0% growth globally this year, falling pretty much in the middle of forecasts from Zenith Media (see… Continue reading Merrill Lynch Sees ‘Cautious Optimism’ For 2003 US Ad Outlook
Despite a number of more optimistic forecasts released recently, the ‘impulse’ for a real recovery in advertising spend will not come until 2004, WPP chairman Sir Martin Sorrell told the German newspaper Welt Am Sonntag this weekend. In an interview with the paper, Sorrell said that current factors give little cause for hope for a… Continue reading No Impulse For Ad Recovery Until 2004, Says Sorrell
There is still too much complacency regarding the UK’s economy, with recent forecasts increasingly looking like wishful thinking, according to Deloitte & Touche‘s latest Economic Review. Official and market forecasts that predict a steady acceleration in growth of the next few years rely on a ‘gradual and orderly’ unwinding of the imbalances built up in… Continue reading UK Economic Prospects Tougher Than Forecasts Suggest, Says Deloitte Report
US online retail spend jumped 23% year on year in the month running up to Christmas, ringing up $7.9 billion in sales, according to the latest data from BizRate. There were six fewer shopping days in the 2002 holiday season as compared to the year before and when the figures are adjusted to include the… Continue reading US Online Sales Jump 23% In Run Up To Christmas
The number of text messages sent in one day reached an all time high on New Year’s Day with people across the country sending 111 million seasonal SMS messages to friends and relatives. According to the latest figures from the Mobile Data Association, the number of text messages sent between midnight on 31 December and… Continue reading New Year Heralds Text Message Spree
The runaway success of Freeview showed no signs of slowing in the run up to Christmas with sales of set top decoder boxes running at more than 200,000 during December. Estimates show that the increased demand for Freeview over the festive period has pushed the number of UK digital terrestrial viewers towards the 2.5 million… Continue reading Freeview Sales Soar In Run Up To Christmas
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
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
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
