Last week’s events appeared to be taking their toll on ITV partners Carlton and Granada yesterday with both companies suffering losses. Carlton dropped 4.55% to finish at £3.25, 15˝p worse off than the previous day, while Granada was down 6.86% to close at £1.42˝p, a loss of 10˝p.Taylor Nelson Sofres and Future Network also fell… Continue reading Sharewatch
In its latest report, Digital Dragons, The Boston Consulting Group reports that despite dot-com gloom lingering in Europe and the US, Asian e-commerce markets are booming. Business to consumer commerce in the Asia-Pacific region is growing at a rate of more than 100% a year mainly due to increased online activity from large, established consumer… Continue reading Boston Consulting Reports That B2C Markets In Asia Are Booming
The National Magazine Company has cancelled two of its most popular exhibitions. The Prima Baby and Cosmopolitan shows will not take place next year while the viability of the events are reviewed.A spokeswoman for the company today said: “Market conditions at the moment mean that the shows have been postponed until further notice. The future… Continue reading Natmags Cancels Exhibitions
Around one quarter of homes across France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK will have a broadband connection by 2005, according to the latest projections from the McKinsey Quarterly. This is some 28 million households and could rise to around 70 million, or 60% of homes, by 2010. Broadband connections allow the fast… Continue reading Broadband Take-Up Will Depend On Companies’ Strategies, Says McKinsey
The Radio Authority has awarded the Yorkshire regional radio licence to the Guardian Media Group (GMG) which will begin broadcasting its Real Radio format in the region early next year.The licence will give GMG access to a potential audience of 3m listeners, and is one of the last big regional licences to be awarded before… Continue reading GMG Wins Yorkshire Regional Licence
In light of recent reports proclaiming the success of online financial services sites and the growing popularity of online banking, Jupiter MMXI forecast that the days of free content on such sites may be limited. Online banking and share trading sites have previously been free to access but the suggestion is that ‘premium services’ will… Continue reading Success Of Online Finance Sites May Result In Less Free Content
Emap have used the launch of their latest online offering, kissonline, to create a cross-media package for Ford and its rebranded Ka.The three month cross-platform advertising campaign is the first to make use of the recently launched website and will target Kiss 100 FM listeners. The promotion will be driven by a strong online and… Continue reading Emap To Push Ka With Kissonline
Debt-laden British Telecom (see Forecasts) was facing another blow today as it was usurped by Orange as the UK’s second largest mobile telephone operator. In the three months to June 2001, Orange added 830,000 new subscriber base taking its total to 11.9 million. In March the companies both had around 11 million subscribers but BT… Continue reading Orange Takes The No.2 Spot In The UK Telecoms Market
Derek Carter has been appointed the new chairman of the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA). Carter succeeds Kevin Hand in this role, after Hand quit both this and his role as chief executive of Emap in May following the company’s ill-fated US investments (see Emap Chief Executive Resigns).The new chairman has been the chair of the… Continue reading New PPA Chairman Appointed
In its new report Interactive Consumer Broadband: Sex, Sport and Shopping?, Analysys claims that ISPs and telecoms operators are ‘deluding themselves’ if they believe that broadband media entertainment will reap rich rewards. In the battle for viewers, cheap, higher-quality digital tv will prove more attractive to consumers than whatever degree of interactivity may be offered… Continue reading Broadband Poses No Threat To TV, Reports Analysys
