Recruitment advertising revenue represented 26.1% of the £1.8bn spent on classified ads in the regional press during 2000 (Advertising Association Yearbook). With over 50% of UK residents now in the online habit (Office of National Statistics), increasing numbers of online recruitment sites are poised to claim a cut of this revenue.Several of the UK’s web… Continue reading Feature: Recruitment Websites
More than two thirds of the population have never visited any of the Government’s 3,000 websites, according to new research from IT consultancy firm, Hedra. The study shows that fewer than 3% of UK adults regularly use Government websites to access public services, despite the fact that nearly two thirds of the population now have… Continue reading UK Government Sites Fail To Captivate
For the first time in over 40 years the BBC is claiming victory over ITV in the annual ratings war with figures for 2001 showing that across all hours more people watched BBC1 than ITV1.Early figures from BARB show that during 2001 BBC1 had an overall audience share of 26.8% compared with 26.7% for ITV1.… Continue reading BBC Claims Ratings Victory Over ITV
Terry Mansfield, managing director of the National Magazine Company (Natmags) has been included in the New Years’ Honours list. He will receive a CBE for services to the publishing industry.Mansfield has been MD at Natmags since 1982, having begun his career in advertising management in 1961 at Condé Nast. He joined Natmags in 1969 and… Continue reading Natmags MD In Line For CBE
UK media group Pearson has this morning agreed the sale of its 22% stake in European broadcaster RTL to German group Bertelsmann for E1.5 billion. The deal, worth E44-a-share, sees Pearson depart from the commercial television market whilst Bertelsmann strengthens its position. Bertelsmann now owns 89% of RTL and has made an offer to buy… Continue reading Pearson Agrees Sale Of RTL Stake
BSkyB saw shares fall 0.82% in week on week analysis to close at £7.29, a loss of 6p on the week before. The satellite operator, which was awarded the contract to produce the successor to Channel 4’s Big Breakfast on Thursday (see BSkyB To Serve Up Next Big Breakfast), could face the prospect of being… Continue reading Sharewatch
The NewsLine team and all of us at MediaTel Group would like to wish our readers a very happy Christmas and peace and prosperity in 2002.NewsLine will be taking a break over the holiday period, but will return on 2 January with the latest media news and comment. Early in the New Year we will… Continue reading Merry Christmas From All At NewsLine
Every year has its winners and losers, its new faces and its has-beens. Below are just a few of the fresh contenders and the spent forces from 2001: Hello! InStyle Glamour Wellbeing TV Femail.co.uk Home & Away …again Spruce ITV Digital Your Life ITV on Sky Digital Crossroads…again Richard & Judy on Channel 4 The… Continue reading Hello! Goodbye!
A bumper Christmas selection pack of choice words from the media world…“Estimates for this year look positive” Rupert Howell, president of the IPA, presenting the Bellwether report in January and countering claims of a slowdown“When are we going to get some leadership out of this bunch of inept broadcasting advisory cronies? ” John Billett at… Continue reading Say What?
2001 was MediaTel’s twentieth year in the media business, but there are no signs that we have stopped growing yet. The year began with the industry getting to know online accounts database NewBizMoves, which launched at the end of 2000 and has gathered strength and subscribers as this year has progressed.Springtime saw another product added… Continue reading MediaTel In 2001- A Review Of The Year
