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
ITV advertising revenues at Granada fell by 12% during the six months to March 2002, with March forecast to be down by 6% and April by 13%, according the company’s AGM statement released this morning. A return to growth, of 9%, is predicted for May, but Granada warns that whilst this is positive, it may… Continue reading ITV Revenues Down 12% In H1, Visibility Still Limited
New research suggests that traditional classified advertising is losing out to online recruitment sites with a huge number of people looking to the internet to find employment. According to eMarketer, a recent survey which polled more than 36,000 residents of the European Union, Iceland and Norway, including both internet users and non-users, found that 30.2%… Continue reading Online Jobs Boom Signals Gloom For Classifieds
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
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 advertising downturn has taken its toll on the UK’s main media sectors, with figures from the Advertising Association showing that total UK ad expenditure fell 3.2% to £13.8bn during 2001. The outdoor industry is no exception, but with revenue declining less than other media, Matthew Carrington, chairman of the Outdoor Advertising Association (OAA) argues… Continue reading Feature: Outdoor Industry Remains Bullish
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
Headhunters are thought to have begun the search for a replacement for Sir Christopher Hogg as chairman of Reuters. Hogg is expected to stand down this summer Carter Tanner, sales director for US Sales Network Hiwire has been appointed by Clear Channel Radio Sales as sales director for Jazz FM. IPC Southbank has appointed Isobel… Continue reading Appointments Brief
Analysis: Sport, Not The Draw It Used To Be?The prime mover in Rupert Murdoch’s UK satellite TV success, sports broadcasting rights, may be floundering as a must-have for TV networks as the high stakes paid during boom time take their toll on balance sheets in these advertising-challenged times.In the US, bidding wars over various league… Continue reading Analysis: Sport, Not The Draw It Used To Be?
Despite 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 a brief released by Forrester Research this week. The latest statistics from Evaliant’s AdWatch ad tracking service show that the overall UK online advertising market reached… Continue reading UK Online Advertising Grows 28% In 2001
