After much speculation over its future, Attic Futura is set to be bought by the French media group, Hachette Filipacchi for around £40 million.The UK publisher was put up for sale last year by its Australian owners, PMP. However, the German company, H Bauer soon pulled out of the bidding and a proposed £55 million… Continue reading Attic Futura Set To Go Continental
Complaints about unwanted text messages have “soared” over the last year, according to The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (Icstis).The industry regulator, which monitors premium rate calls and text messages, has received over 150 complaints in the last nine months about reverse billing, which occurs when users reply to… Continue reading Complaints About Unsolicited Text Messages Soar
Channel 4 is folding its film production arm FilmFour LTD back into its parent company with the loss of up to 60 jobs.The move will see the closure of FilmFour’s UK distribution and international sales arm and the reintegration of its production division back into the core Channel 4 business. Commenting on the decision, Channel… Continue reading Channel 4 Calls Time On Film Production Arm
Big Brother achieved its highest ratings ever, excluding finals, with last week’s eviction show, as 6 million viewers, or 27% of the available audience tuned in to see the evictee announced at 8.30pm and an average 7.1 million switched on at 10pm to see Adele leave the house.The audience for the later show peaked at… Continue reading Big Brother Ratings Highest Outside Of Finals
There may be film stars and singing building society workers in financial adverts these days, but young people find the world of finance remote and hard to fathom, according to new research from the ROAR consortium (see ROAR: Latest Youth Media Research Findings) , released today.The findings show that while 15-24 year olds spend at… Continue reading Young People Love Money But Hate Finance, Says Research
Pace Micro Technology, the set-top box manufacturer, announced today that profits had fallen 70% year on year, reflecting a lack of growth in the digital TV market.The demise of ITV Digital and the continuing problems faced by debt-ridden cable companies have impacted on Pace which is to cut 180 jobs as part of a drive… Continue reading Falling Profits Force Pace To Take Action
The advertising market is improving more quickly than was predicted just a few months ago, Doug Flynn, CEO of Aegis, has told the Wall Street Journal in interview. The paper reports that Aegis is now expecting US adspend to rise 1.5% in 2002, up from a previous forecast of -0.2%. Whilst Asia is also predicted… Continue reading Aegis Chief Sees Improvement In Media Spending
There will be approximately 27 million ‘e-workers’ across Europe by the end of the decade, according to the UK Institute for Employment Studies (IES). Currently, more than 9 million people, or 6% of the entire European workforce, have a job which involves an element of IT. By 2010, this will have risen to a sixth… Continue reading Number Of Euro ‘E-workers’ To Treble By 2010
The market’s fear of the internet, prevalent since the collapse of the dotcom ‘bubble’, may now be showing signs of waning, as the number of company closures begins to fall. The fall-out of the internet and technology markets over the last couple of years has led to the demise of a large number of companies,… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Is Investor Confidence In The Web Returning?
By 2006, Germany will have overtaken the UK to become Europe’s most profitable digital pay-TV market, according to business information company, Datamonitor. The UK market was rated the most valuable in Europe last year, bringing in $3.5 billion in revenues. By contrast, the preponderance of free to air channels and licence free public funded channels… Continue reading Germany Set To Take Digital Crown
