Virgin Media has increased its revenues by 7.1% to £964 million, for the quarter ending in June – traditionally the company’s weakest quarter for growth.
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The National Readership Survey (NRS), which provides estimates of printed newspaper and magazine readerships, has appointed research specialist RSMB and UKOM/Nielsen to conduct a trial fusion of online audience data.
Apple have managed to beat analyst forecasts by raising their net quarterly profit up by 78% to $3.25 billion (£2.1 billion) for the three months to 26 June, up from $1.83bn for the quarter last year.
Google has reported a 24% year on year increase in net profit for the second quarter of 2010, from $1.48 billion to $1.84 billion.
The government today published plans to scrap local-cross media ownership rules by the end of November.
Spending on new, first-run UK programming by the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Five fell 6% between 2008 and 2009, new Ofcom figures reveal.
The Central Office of Information (COI) has appointed Simon Marquis as non-executive board director.
BSkyB has completed the acquisition of Virgin Media Television (VMtv), renaming it the Living TV Group.
Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in online social gaming company Zynga, according to a report from TechCrunch.
The latest IPA Bellwether Report, for Q2 2010, shows that budgets for nearly all main categories were revised down in the second quarter, with online and direct marketing the exceptions.
