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Albert Read has been appointed general manager of Condé Nast Publications, and will take up the role on September 4 this year. Read was previously deputy planning director at Condé Nast International, and also business director of Condé Nast Asia-Pacific, where he was greatly involved in the company’s expansion into China. Read’s promotion to the… Continue reading New General Manager For Condé Nast Publications

The Evening Standard has appointed Rosemary Gorman as its new advertising sales director following the departure of Alan Brydon. Gorman, head of client sales at the Daily Mail since 1999, began her career on the agency side, becoming head of planning and managing partner at Zenith Media prior to her taking up the position at… Continue reading Evening Standard Appoints New Ad Director

ITV will deliver “efficiency savings” of £100 million by the end of 2008 through “business re-engineering and operational reviews”, according to the latest trading update from the broadcaster. It will also launch a +1 channel for ITV2 on satellite and cable next year, fuelling speculation that the launch will be a holding platform for a… Continue reading ITV To Undertake Cost-Cutting Restructure

Emap has agreed to sell off its French Consumer Magazines division, Emap France, to the Italian media group Mondadori for approximately £380 million. Emap announced its plans to sell its French operations in February, in order to return the cash generated to shareholders (see Emap To Sell French Operations). When the sale (conditional on the… Continue reading Sale Of Emap France Agreed

WPP’s wholly owned operating company GroupM, the media investment management network, has acquired 51% of the issued share capital of M80, a leading online word-of-mouth marketing company. The Los Angeles based M80 was established in 1998 to manage the transmission of word of mouth communications online through community activation and viral marketing. M80 employs 18… Continue reading GroupM Acquires Online Viral Marketing Company

Endemol, the production company behind Big Brother, has named Elias Rodriguez-Vina Cancio as its new chief executive officer and chairman, following last weeks resignation of Joaquim Agut Bonsfills. Tom Barnicoat, chief operating officer and a former head of Endemol’s UK operation, had been tipped to take on the role (see Endemol Chief Exec Quits Amid… Continue reading New CEO For Endemol

Vincent Bolloré, chairman of Havas, has hinted that he may buy shares in Emap, saying that he is trying to build a significant force in media and communications the size of Publicis or WPP, according to The Times. Bolloré yesterday failed in his bid to win two seats on the Aegis board (see Bollore Fails… Continue reading Bollore Voices Interest In Emap

Aegis has announced that total group revenues are up 22% for the first quarter of 2006, ahead of toady’s AGM which will see Vincent Bolloré’s board nominations voted on (see External Candidates For Aegis Board). Aegis shareholders have been urged by the board to vote against the nominations , who see Bolloré’s stake in Havas… Continue reading Aegis Revenues Up 22%

Vincent Bolloré has failed in his bid to win two seats on Aegis’ board, with 58.3% of shareholders voting against his nominations. Resolutions 14 and 15, which would have seen Bolloré’s nominees, Philippe Germond (ex-president of French mobile firm Alcatel) and Roger Hatchuel (former owner of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival) become directors of… Continue reading Bollore Fails In Board Bid

Ofcom has predicted that commercial television channels could lose almost 4% of their revenue if the pre-9pm ban on junk food and drink advertising aimed at children is introduced. The latest figures from the independent communications regulator show that GMTV could be the worst affected by the ban, potentially losing up to 6.7% of the… Continue reading Channel Revenue To Fall With Junk Ad Ban