Jeanette Wilkins, finance director at ITV Digital, is to leave the company. Commenting on her departure after three years with the broadcaster, Wilkins said: “It is always a difficult time to leave a company, particularly one which you have been involved with since its birth, but the time is now right, as ONdigital is integrated… Continue reading ITV Digital Finance Director Leaves
Forrester Research has published the Media Buyers’ Table – a source designed to provide UK media planners and buyers with a set of metrics that will enable them to implement more targeted and successful online marketing campaigns. The Media Buyers’ Table uses data collected on websites that participate in Forrester’s online consumer research survey, the… Continue reading Forrester Offers UK Media Planners Internet Metrics Resource
Would subscribers please note that an error was made when creating the “Ownership” listing for GWR. The list that went live last Thursday did not therefore give the full picture of GWR’s performance during the quarter. The revised list is now available to subscribers in the Radio Reports section (click on the button on the… Continue reading Important Notice To Subscribers: RAJAR Q2
If radio operators do not cater for the 12-24 age group they could risk an erosion of their audiences in the future, according to Edison Media Research. The group says that one of the most concerning trends in US radio over the past decade has been the consistent drop in listening among 12-24 year olds.… Continue reading Radio Must Cater For Younger People Or Risk Losing Future Audiences, Says Edison
Global advertising and communications group, WPP, has acquired Forward, a UK contract publishing company which specialises in direct customer communications programmes, for an undisclosed sum.Forward’s clients include Tesco, Egg, British Airways Holidays and Halifax. It reported revenues of £23.2 million in the year to 31 March 2001 and had net assets of £2.1 million at… Continue reading WPP Acquires Forward
As NTL was celebrating its 1 millionth subscriber (see 1 Million Now Subscribe To NTL Digital), the UK government were reinforcing the message that analogue services will be switched off by 2010. The digital switchover is reliant on 95% of the population having access to digital services, meaning that services must be available and affordable… Continue reading UK Government Confident About 2010 Analogue Switch Off
Travel agent Thomas Cook successfully defended itself to the ITC in June when one of its TV commercials prompted the largest number of complaints for that month.A total of 29 viewers complained about the ad, in which a young Afro-Caribbean man and woman meet in a supermarket. The man asks the woman how long it… Continue reading ITC Rejects Stereotyping Complaints
MediaTel Group’s online trading brand, MediaTrader, has launched a new briefing system allowing media planners and buyers to send multiple briefings to a range of over 8,000 media owners.The system, called easyBrief, will be made immediately available free of charge to over 80 media buying companies via MediaTel.co.uk and will allow subscribers to brief media… Continue reading Media Trader Launches easyBrief
Whilst recent RAJAR figures reveal a continuing upward trend in UK commercial radio listening (see Newsline), this has not been converted into revenue as figures for Q2 show a decline in ad revenue of 14.5% when compared with Q2 2000. National advertising fell by 18.6% but this drop was offset slightly by a fall of… Continue reading UK Radio Ad Revenue Falls
United Business Media (UBM) announced that Bernard Gray, previously the group strategy director, has been appointed as chief executive of CMP Information, UBM’s UK-based professional media business, with immediate effect. He will be responsible for the next phase of CMP Information’s development, the company said. United’s profits were hit in the first half by falling… Continue reading UBM Appoints CMP Information Chief
