The Department of Trade and Industry has effectively ended the six year undertaking by ITV companies not to exceed 25% ownership of all TV net advertising revenue (NAR), by allowing the proposed mergers between Granada and either United News & Media or Carlton, or between United News & Media and Carlton to go ahead.Stephen Byers,… Continue reading ITV Merger Ruling Abolishes 25% Advertising Revenue Limit
The key to success at the UK box office this year so far has been the sequel. The follow up to the ground-breaking children’s animation, Toy Story, imaginatively called Toy Story 2, so far holds the record for the most successful opening weekend of 2000, with a takings total of £7.7m for its February debut… Continue reading Second Helpings Push UK Cinema Takings
ABC Electronic (ABCE) has released the first audit of a WAP portal. The figures for Loot.com showed that in the audit period 1-31 March, 62,000 of the 13.9 million page impressions recorded were made via WAP portal, with the remainder from either the website or Digital TV.Richard Foan, director of ABC Electronic said, “Now that… Continue reading ABCE Releases First WAP And Digital TV Audit
When online sportswear company Boo.com collapsed earlier this year, sending a shockwave of panic through previously dotcom-loving stock markets, many theories were put forward about why it happened. The website looked fantastic, its product- label-conscious sportswear- was well targeted for the young and male dominated market of net-heads, so what went wrong?One theory was that… Continue reading Web Report: Which? Online Survey Shows Non-Internet Users Don’t Know What’s Online
Quantum Publishing, which owns titles including Press Gazette and Media Week, has announced that its management is to buy out the P&O shipping company, which owns 80% of the group. The company is also to change its name to Quantum Business Media to reflect a shift in focus from publisher towards business to business player.The… Continue reading Media Week Publisher Bought By Management
Emap Digital has announced the launch of the first in a series of youth-targeted websites under the banner theclickuk.com. ClickManchester.com, a local listings guide and community portal, went live last night.The new network of portals are believed to be replacements for the Yourscreen series of websites, piloted across six cities last year. According to reports… Continue reading Emap Clicks Into Youth Market
Emap announced good trading for the first quarter of the year with increased advertising revenues pushed by cross-media accounts. Speaking at the group’s AGM today, chairman Robin Miller said the creation of Emap Advertising, a merged sales operation, has allowed the company access to previously-unavailable revenue streams.“The move to combine our consumer advertising activities is… Continue reading Cross-Media Ads Push Revenues At Emap
Granada Media’s second day of trading continued in a positive vein, with shares (yet to be listed) ending up 25p at £5.75. However, parent company Granada ended down 17½p at £6.05.Reuters, which has been performing well lately, recieved a postive note from Credit Suisse First Boston. This pushed share prices even higher, to end up… Continue reading Sharewatch
The huge influx of dotcom advertising to both on- and offline media over that last couple of years has been well documented. The necessity for these new internet companies to build up their brands quickly and effectively from scratch, has seen huge marketing budgets set aside for campaigns covering the full range of media. Television… Continue reading Feature: Dotcom Boom Drives Up Media Inflation
Channel 4’s plans to create a digital horse racing channel were put on hold today after it withdrew its £250m bid for exclusive rights to cover the sport. The BBC and NTL have also reneged on their part of the deal due to “factionalism” within the racing industry.Channel 4 was planning to launch an interactive… Continue reading Channel 4 Withdraws Its Bid For Horse Racing Rights
