Circulation across the broadsheets was down by 2.1% to to 5.6 million copies – a loss of just under 120,000 copies for March-August 1998. Only the Financial Times and News International’s (NI) Times and Sunday Times showed improvements in circulation.The Sunday Telegraph suffered the greatest loss in terms of copies. The greatest increase in the… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – August 1998
ABC// electronic recorded 44,142,051 page impression for the Yahoo!Uk and Ireland site, www.yahoo.co.uk, in the period 1-30 June 1998 which is an increase of 28% on the March period.Yahoo! has also opted to have individual advertisers’ statistics verified, meaning that the activity of a specific advertising banner can be monitored, which provides campaign information and… Continue reading Yahoo! Sees An Increase In Website Traffic
Last week saw the introduction of a new women’s title – Women’s Health – into an already packed sector of the magazine market.Women’s Health, however, identifies itself as a magazine with a difference, distancing itself from other women’s titles which feature skinny models by claiming to represent ‘real women’ (see Newsline). Christine Morgan, the magazine’s… Continue reading The State Of Women’s Health
Quality Market Circulation across the broadsheets was down by 2.1% to to 5.6 million copies – a loss of just under 120,000 copies for March-August 1998. Only the Financial Times and News International’s (NI) Times and Sunday Times showed improvements in circulation.The Sunday Telegraph suffered the greatest loss in terms of copies, down by fractionally… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – August 1998
Evidence of the new media company Mega Profile, which is a company owned by Abbott Mead Vickers (AMV), can be seen by all in Leicester Square today, as it has erected a mega poster, 100ft by 70ft on the scaffolding of No.1. Mega Profile has been set up to allow advertisers to take advantage of… Continue reading New Media Company Gets Noticed
Tension continues to mount today in what has become a sparring match between the media giants of the British industry. A mystery bidder has reportedly launched a rival bid for the Manchester United FC, after last week saw both Sky and Man Utd constantly in the headlines following Sky’s £623.4 million takeover offer.US investment bank… Continue reading Football Champions vs Media Giants Continues
IPC Magazines has completed its first lifestyle questionnaire exercise, producing detailed and accurate information on its readers and their views on media consumption and related matters.The research was carried out by a mass mailing of over 750,000 questionnaires, and will be made available to external companies wishing to obtain detailed lifestyle information as well as… Continue reading IPC Shares Its Market Findings
The France-based pornography channel Eurotica Rendez Vous is subject to an order which went into force at midnight last night which declares the channel unacceptable, effectively banning it.Culture Secretary Chris Smith received notification of the pornographic service from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in March (see ITC Calls For Proscription Of Porn Channel), and under… Continue reading Satellite Porn Channel Gets The Chop
Ulster TV’s interim financial results released today for the last six months revealed an increase in turnover of 6.3%, taking it up to a total of £18 million. Pre-tax profit showed a rise of 24.1%, and earnings per share were up by nearly 27% to 5.94p.In March, Ulster TV forecast that 1998 would be a… Continue reading Ulster TV Results Feel Effects Of Competition
