The European Magazine publishers Federation (FAEP) has attacked Friday’s announcement by the Government that tobacco advertising and sponsorship will be made illegal after 2006 (subscribers see Tobacco Sponsorship To Be Phased Out Over Nine Years).The Federation says that the ad ban “lacks a sound legal basis in Community law and clearly runs counter to the… Continue reading Publishers Ready To ‘Fight” Tobacco Ad Ban ‘All The Way’
The IPA has elected seven companies into its membership. They are:CIA Medianetwork UK Crammond Dickens Lerner & Partners Ltd Denton Design & Marketing Ltd IDK Media Mortimer Whittaker O’Sullivan Advertising Ltd The Negotiation Centre Teamworks AdvertisingThis brings the total number of agencies in IPA membership to 213, and the number of media specialists in full… Continue reading Changes At The IPA
Newsline will be interviewing Martin Dunn, editor of Associated New Media, which has just launched thisislondon.com. The interview will appear later this week.The only media-related financial results scheduled this week are final year figures from Daily Mail & General Trust, which are out on Thursday. Website of the Week will be the WPP site and… Continue reading The Week Ahead
IPC Magazines has announced cover price increases across a range of its Weeklies Group titles: Woman , Womans Own and Chat increase to 60p, Now goes up to 65p, Whats On TV goes up to 49p, Womans Weekly rises to 54p and Womans Realm increases to 57p.Alan Green, publishing servies director at IPC’s distributor MarketForce,… Continue reading Price Increases At IPC Titles
The national newspaper market had a bad month in October, with only three titles not showing year on year drops in readership. The Guardian saw a year on year NRS increase of 12.5% for May-October and the Sunday Telegraph went up almost 18%. The Mail on Sunday could only manage growth of 0.1%.Subscribers can access… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – October
Only seven national newspapers experienced year on year June-November ABC increases, with the Sunday Telegraph again storming ahead with a massive 18% rise. The FT also had a good month, with an increase of just under 10%. The biggest losses were in the Sunday tabloid market, where the People fell 7% and the Sunday Mirror… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – November
A slightly more grown-up version of Eat Soup and aimed at at a broader audience, Fox’s Food and Travel magazine is exotic, stylish and extravagant.From articles on Tokyo’s fish markets and sushi bars to write-ups on far-flung places like Zanzibar, this is obviously aspirational stuff. But at the end of the day if a magazine… Continue reading First Issue Review – Food And Travel
In Brussels last night a meeting of the European Union’s health ministers decided, by the narrowest of margins, to phase out tobacco advertising and sponsorship over the next nine years. The ban will be implemented gradually seeing advertising of tobacco products ending in four years, most sponsorship in five and the support of sports events… Continue reading Tobacco Sponsorship To Be Phased Out Over Nine Years
