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According to a recent report from The Strategis Group Strategis dataBank: Global Cellular/PCS & Next Generation Subscribers and Operators, the global wireless marketplace will grow by 19% in 2002. Next generation services launching around the world will drive growth and by 2007, Strategis believes that 63% of users will subscribe to these services. Growth will… Continue reading 1.7 Billion Mobile Subscribers Worldwide By 2007, Says Strategis

BSkyB was the best performer in the media market and the highest climber in the FTSE yesterday. Shares rose 6.44% close at £7.02, ahead of the company’s figures due to be released today.ITV partners Carlton and Granada also performed strongly yesterday. The former saw shares climb 5.98% to finish at £1.95, whilst Granada was up… Continue reading Sharewatch

The national press market had a better year in 2001 than the year before, in that falls in readership and circulation were less pronounced. Falls were seen in circulation for the mid and more especially the popular market titles, but the broadsheets had a better year in this respect. The daily mid market saw its… Continue reading National Press Market Round-Up – 2001

More people are visiting e-commerce sites from work than from home, according to the latest figures derived from NetValue’s new Megapanel.The figures generated for December 2001 by the Megapanel, which measures internet behaviour at home, work and university, show that online shopping site, littlewoods.co.uk experienced a 400% month on month increase in at-work users during… Continue reading E-Commerce Sites Get Boost From Work Users

The FT this morning reports that talks are being held today between Rupert Murdoch and key News Corp TV executives regarding the company’s position on troubled German broadcaster Kirch. BSkyB holds a 22% share in Kirch’s pay TV operation and decisions must be made on the future of this arrangement and the put option BSkyB… Continue reading Murdoch In ‘Make Or Break’ Talks Over Kirch

Gaming consoles will not succeed in offering a myriad bolt-on functions, such as MP3 players, personal video recorders (PVR) and hubs for digital cameras, but they will benefit from broadband connections to the internet, allowing online console gaming to take off. This is the message from Game Consoles Connect – a new report by Forrester… Continue reading European Broadband Growth Will Drive Online Gaming Consoles

Business digital subscriber line (DSL) subscriptions in Europe will be worth $7.9 billion by 2006 according to a new report Incumbents Will Control Booming Business DSL Market from the Yankee Group. This is compared with a forecast $7 billion derived from residential asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) services. Although business subscribers will account for only… Continue reading Business DSL Market Will Be Worth Almost $8 Billion by 2006, Says Yankee Group

Future Network and Telewest were the worst media performers in yesterday’s market. The former saw shares dip 14.63% to close at 35p, while the latter fare slightly better dropping 7.35% finish at 31˝p, a loss of 2˝p on the day before.Granada also performed poorly with stock slipping 4.61% to close at £1.08žp, 5źp worse off… Continue reading Sharewatch

“The online media sector is in disarray,” says McKinsey Quarterly in a rather sobering assessment of the industry’s struggle for revenues in the digital world. In its Q4 2001 report McKinsey says that as both powerful media incumbents and pure-play internet companies alike struggle to make revenue online, the temptation to abandon the world wide… Continue reading 95% Of Pure-Play Online Companies Will Fail, Says McKinsey

Aegis Group, the media communications and market research network, has acquired Market & More, a European market research company with operations in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France. Market & More provides full-service custom research to a blue-chip client base of major European and multinational FMCG companies, including Procter & Gamble, Interbrew and Danone Group. Aegis… Continue reading Aegis Acquires European Market Research Group