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European online trade revenues are expected to multiply in the next few years and will account for more than a fifth of all business trade by 2006, according to a new study by Forrester Research. The Future Of Europe’s Online B2B Trade reported on thirteen different industries in fifteen European countries and predicts that electrical… Continue reading EU Online Trade To Exceed €2 Trillion In 2006, Says Forrester

UK cable operator, Telewest Communications, today moved closer to what seems to be its inevitable financial restructure as the company’s bank group agreed to permit it to enter discussions with bondholders and other relevant parties.The discussions will see Telewest formulating a plan to restructure its balance sheet in order to relieve the group of some… Continue reading Telewest Gains Bank’s Consent For Restructure

Future Publishing is launching a £1 million marketing campaign across its PC magazine portfolio in anticipation of Christmas.The marketing drive will include additional covermounts, special packaging and point of sale promotions in PC Format, PC Plus and Microsoft Windows XPmagazine. The seasonal promotion aims to raise awareness of PC magazines in the traditionally busy months… Continue reading Future Publishing Plans £1 Million PC Marketing Drive

A range of industry figures gathered at last night’s MRG evening meeting to hear the Wireless Group’s Bill Ridley, Carat’s James Smyth and Justin Sampson of the RAB discuss the contentious issue of radio audience measurement.Following Kelvin MacKenzie’s renewed criticism of RAJAR’s diary system, Ridley explained that the Wireless Group has been trialing a new… Continue reading MRG Evening Meeting: The Future Of Radio Audience Measurement

According to a report in today’s Financial Times, Vivendi Universal is examining the possibility of selling its Express-Expansion magazine division as it looks to reduce a debt burden of E19 billion. Express-Expansion publishes sixteen titles including the French current affairs magazine, L’Express and potential buyers include the Dassault arms group which owns the centre-right newspaper,… Continue reading Vivendi Considers Sale Of Magazine Business

ABC results for the six-months ending in June 2002 reveal an impressive performance for Condé Nast’s Glamour magazine, which saw circulation increase by 15.2% year on year to 520,193 (see ABC Jan-Jun 2002 – Women’s Monthly Titles). Figures from Nielsen Media Research show that the title, which is now the highest circulating magazine in the… Continue reading ABC Follow-Up Report: Adverts In Women’s Monthly Magazines

A new study from Ipsos-RSL has revealed a lack of growth in the UK digital TV sector although conditions are ripe for further expansion in the coming year.The quarterly DART (Digital Audience Research Tracker) survey shows that, as in October 2001, 35% of UK homes have access to digital TV services. Stagnation has been blamed… Continue reading UK Digital Market Stands Still For Now

People who have watched or listened to streaming media online in the past week buy more compact discs than the average American, according to a new study by Arbitron and Edison Media Research. The report, Internet 9: The Media and Entertainment World of Online Consumers found that weekly “Streamies” bought twenty-one CDs in the last… Continue reading Streaming Media Encourages Music Sales, Says Report

The Times is expanding its offering with the launch of a new weekly property supplement Bricks and Mortar at the start of September.The new supplement will be 32-pages long in a stand-alone tabloid format and will be included in Friday’s edition of the paper. It will only be distributed in southern editions of The Times… Continue reading The Times Launches New Property Supplement

Prominent cable and DSL providers in the US added a combined 1.37 million broadband internet subscribers in the second quarter of this year, according to Leichtman Research Group. By the mid-point of this year, the major US providers had over 13.5 million broadband subscribers between them. More than 65% of these users connect to the… Continue reading US Cable Firms Reap The Broadband Bounty