Monday MediaTel’s weekly media focus and analysis, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.Pearson PLC releases full year results for the year ending 31 December 2000.The Financial Times opens its two day New Media and Broadcasting Conference, entitled, “Broadcast Meets Broadband” at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Central London.ITV relaunches its revamped soap opera Crossroads,… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Building businesses on the internet is not necessarily the money-burning exercise that many have found it to be, if this morning’s financial results from Pearson are anything to go by. Having spent a huge sum on Net investment this year, the company not only turned in profit higher than expected but also reported that its… Continue reading Pearson Embraces The Internet Where Others Falter
Magazine publisher Attic Futura is to be sold by parent company PMP, which in turn is to merge with Australia’s Independent Print Media Group. In the UK Attic Futura publishes Shine, CD:UK, Inside Soap and All About Soap in addition to B and Sugar which are joint ventures with UK and German-based publisher North South.… Continue reading Attic Futura To Be Sold Off By Parent Company
Building businesses on the internet is not necessarily the money-burning exercise that many have found it to be, if this morning’s financial results from Pearson are anything to go by. Having spent a huge sum on Net investment this year, the company not only turned in profit higher than expected but also reported that its… Continue reading Pearson Embraces The Internet Where Others Falter
According to a recent report by Datamonitor, there will be 66.2 million active online bank accounts in Europe by 2003, up from 26.1 million in 2000. Growth is expected to be greatest in Southern Europe and in France where currently uptake of online banking has been slower than elsewhere in Europe. Currently Sweden is leading… Continue reading Online Banking Takes Off In Europe
According to new research by IDC, the global corporate ‘elearning’ market will exceed $23 billion by 2004. This growth is attributed to better, cheaper and more prevalent internet access and to the improvement in the quality of elearning tools. North America is expected to retain its dominance of the market, accounting for two-thirds of worldwide… Continue reading eLearning: Not Just For Techies?
According to a report by AdRelevance, a Jupiter Media Metrix Company, 28% of advertising space on leading websites was taken up with house ads in Q4 2000, up from 15% earlier in the year. Entertainment and society websites ran the highest percentage of self-promotional advertisements (30%) among ad supported websites, followed by news and information… Continue reading Self Promotion Clutters Sites According To Jupiter
Contrary to what many believe, AB consumers not only like advertising but will actively seek it out in some cases, in order to make informed choices about what to buy. This was among the latest findings presented today by the VIPer (Very Important People, Exclusive Research) research project, which endeavours to improve understanding of the… Continue reading ABs Like Ads, Says Latest VIPer Research
Circulations across flagship regional newspapers are continuing to decline, according to the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). In a year on year analysis for the six month period to January 2001 only one of the top ten titles increased its circulation base.The Wolverhampton Express & Star is the top regional newspaper… Continue reading Circulations Across Flagship Regionals Continue To Decline
BBC1’s heavily trailed EastEnders Night appears to have delivered the goods for the channel, which achieved its best viewing figures in over a year last night, according to unofficial overnights. The evening kicked off with a celebrity Weakest Link, in which contestants from the EastEnders cast competed to raise money for Comic Relief. It achieved… Continue reading Phil’s Shooting Blows ITV’s Millionaire Out Of The Water
