ISBA has said that it is willing to facilitate discussions regarding the possible benefits to UK advertisers of a single ITV company with representatives from the commercial channel and its own members. Until now the industry has maintained doubts that competitiveness could be maintained if the two major ITV shareholders, Carlton and Granada, are allowed… Continue reading ISBA Agrees To Talks With ITV Companies
ITV Digital could face imminent closure if a lower offer for media rights is not accepted by the Football League today, according to reports in today’s national press.The troubled digital TV platform was meant to pay around £180m over for the rights to screen Nationwide League football games, but now, faced with financial pressure, it… Continue reading Football League Rejection Could Close ITV Digital
UK Online Advertising Grows 28% In 2001Despite falling from the ‘heady days’ of triple-digit growth, internet advertising still outpaced the rest of the UK media industry last year, rising 28% year on year, according to Forrester Research.The latest statistics from Evaliant’s AdWatch ad tracking service show that the overall UK online advertising market reached £122… Continue reading UK Online Advertising Grows 28% In 2001
Email has officially become more popular than post, says Net Value, with the number of emails being sent and received from UK households exceeding letters by nearly 300 million in January 2002. NetValue reported that more than 452 million emails were sent and received by British homes in January in addition to more than 100… Continue reading Email Now ‘More Popular Than Post’ Says Net Value
The continuing success of Oscar-nominated Lord of the Rings and the opening of the heavily plugged animation Monsters Inc brought UK cinema admissions in February to their highest level since 1969. The eventual total was 19 million, up 38% year on year.Monsters Inc took £6.49m on its opening weekend, excluding previews, making it the fifth… Continue reading Biggest Cinema Admission Total Since 1969
Almost 9% of the worldÂ’s population now has access to the internet according to a report compiled by Nua. Based on data collected from various sources, Nua estimate that the global internet audience had grown to 544.2 million users by the end of February 2002. An increase of 30.79 million users since August 2001 when… Continue reading Global Online Population Continues To Grow
The ABC has removed several thousand copies from the average net circulation figures for the Guardian and Observer newspapers, after a routine inspection revealed problems with copies claimed under “multiple copy sales”.The figure for August 2001 to January 2002, which was previously reported as 416,066, a 4.65% year on year increase, has been revised to… Continue reading ABC Downsizes Guardian Circulation Figure
Complaints regarding a poster appealing for money for baby charity Tommy’s were upheld by the ASA this week, after it was concluded that it was misleading with regards to what contributions would be spent on.The objections came from members of the public and another charity, BLISS, which funds the care of newborn children. Concerns were… Continue reading ASA Unmoved By Defence Of Charity
A positive outlook from Future as it released full year results yesterday (see Future Banks On Games Mag Market Growth) helped boost the company’s share price by over 10%, pushing it up 5˝p to end at 56p.Ahead of today’s AGM, the market was also behind Granada, which ended up 5źp or over 4% at £1.44ź.… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Advertising Association has expressed its support for the conclusions of a summit of the European Union held in Barcelona, which could bring the goal of an internal market for services in Europe closer to completion.At the summit last weekend, leaders of the Member States iterated the importance of following up the communication of the… Continue reading AA Backs EU Internal Market Conclusions
