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Korea is leading the world in broadband usage, while the UK has one of the lowest rates of broadband penetration, according to new research by NetValue. More than half of Korean households with internet use a broadband connection, whilst only 3.1% of online UK households do. % Of Internet Households Connected Via Broadband Korea 57.3%… Continue reading Korea Leads In Broadband Usage While UK Lags

Deborah Fine, vice-president and publisher of Condé Nast’s US Glamour magazine is to leave the post, despite having won an award for battling through a tough year and being promoted to VP. Rumours of her departure had surfaced in the New York Post prior to these accolades. Fine will be succeeded by Suzanne Grimes, currently… Continue reading Grimes Succeeds Fine As US Glamour Publisher

While press reports declare the UK to be slipping into ad revenue decline the outdoor industry continues to enjoy a boom period. Still one of the market’s smaller players, with around 5% of total adspend, its growth continues, partly as a result of corrosion across other media.Iain McLellan, director of the Outdoor Advertising Association (OAA),… Continue reading Feature: Outdoor Holds Onto Its Place In The Sun

Reuters announced yesterday that it is pressing ahead with the proposed flotation of its financial information service Instinet. The move has provoked criticism from media analysts as the timing coincides with worldwide slumps in stock markets. The filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicates the business is valued around $3bn, a figure which,… Continue reading Reuters’ Plan To Float Instinet Meets With Market Criticism

Capital Interactive has announced a syndication deal which will see youth email site another.com, women’s magazine site BeMe.com and black music site darkerthanblue.com become partner websites for its first three narrowcast stations.Each of the station and partner deals have been tailored to create a blend of radio, retail and editorial elements. For another.com ATK13 will… Continue reading Capital Signs Syndication Deals For New Online Radio Stations

IPC Media has relaunched its women’s website BeMe.com. On its first appearance a year ago (see Web Review: BeMe.com), when dotcom fever ruled and women were the target of choice, the site originally borrowed editorial from the full range of IPC women’s titles, making it content rich but somewhat blurred in its audience target. The… Continue reading IPC Gives Women’s Site An ABC1 Makeover

Clothing retailer French Connection has once again fallen foul of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for using its initials, FCUK, in an advert in a way which could lead to the letters being read as “fuck”. The 132 complaints received by the ASA concerned a poster advert advising consumers to visit the website “fcukinkybugger.com”. Complainants… Continue reading Retailer’s Kinky Bugger Ad Provokes Complaints To ASA

Reuters announced yesterday that it is pressing ahead with the proposed flotation of its financial information service Instinet. The move has provoked criticism from media analysts as the timing coincides with worldwide slumps in stock markets.The filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicates the business is valued around $3bn, a figure which, while… Continue reading Reuters’ Plan To Float Instinet Meets With Market Criticism

Global marketing and communications group, WPP, has made three small but key acquisitions this week, helping to build its marketing services businesses. It has bought UK sales and marketing management company, Glendinning. The group helps clients such as Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Tesco develop sales development skills, customer marketing and management. WPP has also acquired icon,… Continue reading WPP Makes Three Acquisitions

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has confirmed that it has renewed the licences for the remaining Channel 3 companies. Border, Central, Grampian, Granada, LWT and Scottish have all extended their licences for a further ten year period.Financial terms for licence renewal were revealed by the regulatory body last month (see ITC Announces Financial Renewal Terms… Continue reading ITC Renews Remaining ITV Licences