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Online consumers in the US plan to buy more gifts over the Web this holiday season than the last, according to research by PC Data. The survey found that online consumers intend to purchase 38 percent of their holiday gifts online, up from 25 percent in 1999. Almost half (47 percent) of their gifts will… Continue reading Christmas Online Trading Boom Expected In The US

This week Virgin Radio unveiled plans to launch four new standalone radio brands that will be broadcast exclusively over the internet. The stations offer Virgin listeners music selections alternative to the playlist used on the main Virgin station. Virgin has also embraced the net by selling advertising specifically on its web broadcasts. The introduction of… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Radio Goes Online To Net More Listeners

ONdigital has announced that its current director of sales and business development, Matthew Seaman, is to move into a new role within the company: director of interactivity. Reporting to Rob Fyfe, Seaman will oversee all of ONdigital’s interactive activity, including the TV internet service ONnet, ONgames and the development of interactive advertising. Following this appointment,… Continue reading Appointments Brief

Shares improved on the results up from 525p to 543p. Stock continued to climb during Wednesday reaching 565p as a sale of the groupÂ’s Technicolor business. The Daily Telegraph notes that whilst Carlton shares have suffered from its failure to secure the merger with UNM and fears of a downturn in ITV advertising, there has… Continue reading Carlton Communications results: City Reaction

A ban on tobacco advertising is back on the agenda after a new bill restricting such promotion was unveiled during the Queen’s Speech today. The bill will come into effect next summer and could lead to a total ban on the advertising of tobacco products.Government had last year planned to introduce a ban to phase… Continue reading Queen’s Speech Unveils Tobacco Ad Ban

A new interactive form of banner advertising is to be rolled out across Future Network sites during the next few months, allowing rich media commercials and a degree of interactivity which the company hope will encourage click-throughs.Currently being tested on the intermusic.com website, the Active Flash Banners (AFBs) allow interactivity such as the click buttons… Continue reading Future To Roll Out Rich Media Banners Across Network

Carlton Communications today announced an 8% increase in pre-tax profits and released an upbeat statement about its progress during 2000. Financial results for the year ending September showed profits of £342m as the group announced progress in the three key areas of sports rights, programme-making and pay tv.But there was little hope on the horizon… Continue reading Profits At Carlton On The Up As Ad Revenues Slip

BBC and Talksport have reached an out-of-court settlement over the broadcasting rights to major sporting events. Talksport can continue to broadcast off-tube commentary of major sporting fixtures even if the BBC holds the rights to the event.The disagreement between the two arose over broadcasting rights to the Euro 2000 championship, to which Talksport claimed to… Continue reading BBC And Talksport Reach Agreement Over Sporting Rights

BSkyB’s position in the pay-tv market is to be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading. The competition watchdog will assess the supply of Sky’s channels to its competitors to ensure the broadcaster is not dominating the market.The move follows a review in January this year of undertakings imposed on the company in 1996 which… Continue reading BSkyB Faces OFT Investigation

United News & Media has invested $30m in Creative Planet, the leading provider of B2B solutions for the film and television industry in the US. United plans to merge its own UK-based film production source, The Knowledge, with the group and, working together, develop global online and offline businesses for the market sector.Clive Hollick, chief… Continue reading United Partners US Film Services Group