The best media performer over the last week was Reed International, thanks to interest in its internet publishing activities (see Profits Fall 5% At Reed Elsevier). Its climb of 13p to £5.87 on Friday meant that over the week shares in the company went up more than 10%.Pearson fared less well last week, dropping more… Continue reading Sharewatch
Monday MediaTel’s weekly media focus and analysis, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.A national newspaper ABC round-up for July will be available on Newsline.WPP, which is set to become the world’s largest advertising group on completion of its takeover of Young & Rubicam (see WPP Buys Young & Rubicam For $4.7bn), releases its… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Sky News has launched a streaming video service, allowing readers to catch live news bulletins 24 hours a day through its website, sky.com/news. The move is a further extension of the group’s news activity as competition between multi-channel news providers increases (see Feature: How Much More News Can We Take?).Sky News is now available across… Continue reading Sky News Launches 24-Hour Video Streaming Service
No longer a minority group, for the first time, female internet users outnumbered male ones in the US during the first quarter of this year. MMXI Europe’s parallel study in the States by Media Metrix and Jupiter Communications found that during May females aged 2 or older at home and work represented 50.4% of all… Continue reading Female Internet Users Outnumber Male Users In US
WPP reported pre-tax profits of £161 million in its interim results released today. This marks an increase of over 22% on the same period last year for the advertising group which is set to become the largest in the world on completion of its $4.7bn deal with Young & Rubicam (see WPP Buys Young &… Continue reading WPP Reports Profits Up 22%
Hollinger Telegraph, which owns the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph, is planning to launch a raft of internet channels by the end of this year. The Electronic Telegraph website is to be revamped as a portal leading to a number of individual channels, the first of which, a sports site, will launch in September.Electronic… Continue reading Daily Telegraph Extends Its Web Content
Month on MonthNational newspapers showed a decrease in sales across the sector of 3.5% for the month of July. Figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) showed that around half of all national titles saw their circulation fall. The most significant exception was Sport First which fought back from a drop in last month’s… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – July 2000
Carlton Interactive has appointed a new head of sales. Taryn Newlove, former head of overseas holiday advertising at Teletext, will replace Paul Coggins, who has already left the group. The move follows a period of upheaval for the company, which has lost a number of staff in recent months. Newlove will be responsible for building… Continue reading Appointments Brief
Channel 5 lost out to Channel 4 in its attempt to buy the rights to Big Brother, and looking at that programme’s accelerating popularity (see Big Brother Is Watching Audience Figures Go Up) its easy to see why Dawn Airey has decided that Jailbreak, the channel’s most expensive commission yet, will form the centrepiece of… Continue reading From Big Brother To Big Sales Houses, Channel 5 Prepares For Battle
City workers earning the biggest wads in Britain are to be targeted with the biggest billboards in Britain, thanks to US outdoor contractor Van Wagner bringing New York’s idea of advertising to the UK.Four locations on the key traffic routes into the City of London now feature 85ft long back illuminated light boxes. The largest… Continue reading Van Wagner Gives Big Spenders The Big Picture
