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ITV is expected to announce a new strategy for revenue production, which reduces its dependency on advertising. This plan is expected to be unveiled when ITV releases its interim results tomorrow.

Advertising group JCDecaux has reported a revenue increase of €623 million, in the three months to the end of June.

Marketers expect their overall marketing budgets to increase in the last six months of this year, according to a survey of more than 100 top-level marketing directors.

CBS Outdoor UK has confirmed the appointment of Mark Chippendale as commercial director.

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.

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.