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According to the Interactive Broadcast Media Report: Streaming Audio and Video Market Growth 1998-2004 report from AccuStream, streaming media grew healthily in 2001 with video streams rising 149% to 2.5+ billion served, 51% at broadband bit rates. Internet audio tuning hours also grew by 100% to 100 million hours per month and it was a… Continue reading Broadband Video Streaming Surpassed Narrowband In 2001, Says AccuStream

Major UK media players, Carlton Communications and Granada Media, have announced that discussions regarding a possible merger have been terminated.Any potential merging of the interests of the two major ITV shareholders would have been dependent on an anticipated change in current legislation which limits the percentage of advertising share which can be controlled by any… Continue reading Carlton And Granada End Merger Talks

New findings from Ipsos-Reid show that fewer than 1 in 10 (8%) Americans over the age of 12 who have ever downloaded or streamed music off of the internet have actually paid for this material translating to only 4 million people. Additionally, 84% of those who have downloaded music without paying report they would not… Continue reading US Music Downloaders Unwilling To Pay, Says Ipsos-Reid

The OFT has decided to close the file on a cable distribution agreement between BSkyB and ntl without making a decision. The deal would have entitled ntl to receive discounts on wholesale rates for Sky’s channels, in return for a commitment to increase distribution of the channels.A spokesman for Sky said: “It is disappointing that,… Continue reading Sky/NTL Deal Shelved By OFT

Major UK media players, Carlton Communications and Granada Media, have announced that discussions regarding a possible merger have been terminated. Any potential merging of the interests of the two major ITV shareholders would have been dependent on an anticipated change in current legislation which limits the percentage of advertising share which can be controlled by… Continue reading Carlton And Granada End Merger Talks

Whilst many believe that newspaper websites diminish the number of readers who will actually fork out for a paper copy of their chosen paper, analysis of circulation at 236 French newspapers by Pressflex shows no such effect. On the contrary, a typical French newspaper with a web site outperformed its siteless peers between 1999 and… Continue reading Newspaper Websites Are Not Reducing News-Stand Sales, Says Pressflex

Carlton and Granada have issued a statement saying that “a fundamental restructuring of ITV Digital’s cost base must be concluded as a matter of urgency in order to secure the long term future of the business” and that Deloitte & Touche have been appointed to help in this task.ITV Digital remains some way behind its… Continue reading ITV Digital To Restructure; Merger Talks Revived?

The Competition Commission has announced that its decision on the proposed acquisition by Johnston Press of eight Trinity Mirror newspaper titles (see Johnston Press Refers Free Trinity Papers Acquisition To Competition Commission) has been extended until 19 April 2002. The CC had been due to report on 22 February 2002 but has asked to be… Continue reading Deadline For Johnston/Trinity Decision Extended

Translucis has signed a deal with Ibiza Media which will see advertisers offered the opportunity to target around 1.5 million young adults on holiday with bar and club based advertising screens in the popular clubbing holiday destination’s peak season from May to September.Sue Aitken, marketing and development director at Translucis said: “Through our consumer research… Continue reading Translucis To Offer Ibiza Opportunities

Sex sells, or so the saying goes, but it can also get you in trouble with the Advertising Standards Authority, as two advertisers discovered this week.Both Virgin Mobile and radio station Kix 96.2 FM attracted complaints by using images of scantily clad women in posters. In the case of Virgin, the woman was wearing a… Continue reading Sex And Swearing Gets Rise From ASA