IPC Ignite’s music magazine NME has teamed up with Virgin Radio to launch NME Radio.The new station will launch later this week as an online radio service via www.nmeradio.com and will be available as a data service on London’s Digital multiplex allowing listeners to tune in via their PC’s. It will also be developed across… Continue reading IPC Ignite To Launch NME Radio
Speculation is rife that Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, is poised to make a counter bid for the Tempus media buying agency just a month after reports that French group Havas Advertising was to take over the agency.Sorrell’s offer is thought to be an all cash bid worth considerably more than the £425m… Continue reading WPP Poised To Make Counter Bid For Tempus
The latest wave of Right Of Admission Reserved (R.O.A.R) research into the media habits, lifestyles, attitudes and brand preferences of 15-24 year olds is under way.Running form August to October the research will look closely at the role of media in the lives of 15-24 year olds, and will examine their attitudes towards TV advertising,… Continue reading Youth Research R.O.A.R’s Again
Speculation is rife that Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, is poised to make a counter bid for the Tempus media buying agency just a month after reports that French group Havas Advertising was to take over the agency (see Tempus Shares Soar On Havas Takeover Reports). The Havas bid of 514p-a-share values Tempus… Continue reading WPP Poised To Make Counter Bid For Tempus
New data from Jupiter MMXI reveals that traditional consumer brands are not exploiting the potential of the internet, despite a continually growing online population who are spending more and more time online each month.Jupiter analyst Staffan Engdegard says that this is because the internet lacks the mass-market reach of TV or radio and brand owners… Continue reading Brands Don’t Use Net Enough
Rivals.net, the Chrysalis-owned sports network, was visited by over a million unique users in July, according to ABC Electronic’s latest audit of the site’s traffic.The figures show that the number of unique users visiting the Rivals.net has increased by 25% to 1.09 million since the site was last audited in April. Page impressions have also… Continue reading Rivals.net Scores Over A Million Users
The underlying rate of inflation dropped 0.2% compared to the previous month during July, according the latest figures released by the Office of National Statistics. The rate of 2.2% was less than had been predicted by analysts fearing inflationary pressure, and is thought to have been helped by low food and petrol prices.The headline rate… Continue reading Food Prices Ease Inflation Rate
Despite the sobering content of Cordiant’s interim results yesterday (see Cordiant To Cut More Jobs), the company’s shares rose on the news of imminent job cuts, ending up 10p by the end of the day’s trading, at £1.59½. This 6.7% increase made it the best media performer of the day.At the other end of the… Continue reading Sharewatch
MTV is to launch a broadband music channel, MTV Live, which from September will allow internet users to receive near TV-quality programmes on their PC’s.In what, according to MTV, is the first commercial carriage deal of its kind, the company has teamed up with satellite broadband network provider, Europe Online, to distribute a TV channel… Continue reading MTV To Launch Broadband TV Channel
