Yesterday saw some of the recent enthusiasm leave media stocks, with slumps of 3% or more occurring at companies including Cordiant, Reuters and Reed International.The good news for commercial radio in the recent RAJAR figures (see Newsline) continued to boost radio owners Capital, Chrysalis and Emap. Capital rose 5p to £7.75, Chrysalis ended up 1½p… Continue reading Sharewatch
Search engine, MSN.com, was home to the four most visited banner ads throughout June. The most visited advert on the site was exposed to 2,871,000 individual at home internet users over the course of the month and achieved 20.6% digital reach of the total at home UK internet audience. Amazon.co.uk and Debtbusterloans were the only… Continue reading New Media Round-Up
Anglo-Dutch publishing group, Reed Elsevier, has this morning posted interim pre-tax profits up 13% at £410 million, notably above the consensus expectations.Reed says that the first half results are encouraging and reflect strong performances in Science & Medical, Legal and Education, partly offset by the impact of the economic slowdown on Business to Business. Reed’s… Continue reading Reed Shares Rally On Results
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is to launch a set of auditing standards to accelerate the pace of adoption for website auditing.The auditing standards guidelines will explain the role, function, background and terms used in auditing and will be available to media owners and the advertising community via the IAB website.All major traffic auditing companies… Continue reading IAB Pushes For Web Audit
Adshel Scotland has secured a ten year contract to provide bus shelters and poster sites for Edinburgh’s largest shopping centre.The company has been awarded the advertising rights for 16 ‘metropolis’ bus shelters, the first to be built in the UK, and 20 six-sheet poster sites. Installation will begin in September and six of the shelters… Continue reading Ten Year Deal For Adshel
Richard Desmond, owner of the Express newspaper group, has hired Richard Park, former Capital Radio executive.Park left Capital, where he was programme director, in March last year after 13 years with the group. He oversaw the launch of Capital Gold and is credited with playing a key role in Capital’s expansion throughout Britain.Park will act… Continue reading Desmond Hires Radio Executive
ITV will hold the official launch of its Autumn schedule in a couple of weeks, revealing whatever it believes will be the jewel in the crown of its late year programming. Back when the summer schedule was launched, the imported US hit Survivor was supposed to fulfil that role as the channel aimed to tighten… Continue reading Reality Bites For ITV
WPP, which yesterday acquired UK contract publishing group, Forward (see WPP Acquires Forward), saw shares climb 0.55% to finish at £7.35, an increase of 4p on the previous day.ITV partners, Carlton and Granada, continued to see shares rise. Carlton was up 0.64% to close at £3.53ź, 2źp better off than the day before, while Granada… Continue reading Sharewatch
The first UK media agency to specialise in digital TV, guerillascope, has been established and is due for official launch in September.Following on from the formation of digital sales houses, guerillascope is a digital buying agency set up to cater for companies wishing to target the growing digital TV audience (see Feature: Another Year In… Continue reading UK’s First Digital Agency Launches
£0.5m Campaign For ITV’s Premiership Show ITV will this week launch a nationwide marketing campaign worth over £0.5m to promote its new Saturday football highlights programme, The Premiership (see ITV Brings Sport To Saturday Evenings).The campaign, said to be ITV’s biggest ever for a sports programme, will focus on poster, radio and press with 96… Continue reading 08.08.01
