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Daily Mail & General Trust, owner of the Daily Mail, has reported a 47% fall in adjusted pre-tax profits to £77 million for the six months to 29 March.The publisher also suffered an 85% drop in operating profit at its regional division and a 59% fall across its national newspaper business.It said that the results… Continue reading DMGT pre-tax profits fall 47%

Orange will not be buying the technology behind Project Kangaroo, the failed VoD venture between ITV, BBC Worldwide and Channel 4.It is understood that the three parties, who invested as much as £20 million in the project, have been attempting to sell off the technology since the service was blocked earlier this year (see Competition… Continue reading Orange ends talks to buy Project Kangaroo technology

Google is integrating its Analytics software into YouTube brand channels, giving brands and content publishers access to previously unavailable information.The newly available metrics, including bounce rates, page views, stay time, and return rates, could not be accessed using the video-sharing site’s built-in Insight analytics system.While users can still use Insight to learn detailed information about… Continue reading Google Analytics integrated into YouTube brand channels

Ben was the latest contestant to feel the full weight of Sir Alan’s finger in the boardroom last night, as the grizzled boss uttered the immortal “You’re fired” at the wannabe Apprentice.On BBC One at 9pm, The Apprentice had a peak of 8.7 million viewers (a 36% share of the audience), miles ahead of ITV1’s… Continue reading Another Wednesday night win for The Apprentice

After two months away from the top spot Guardian.co.uk is once again the most popular website of the audited national newspapers.According to data released by ABCe, the Guardian site crawled its way back in April gaining 2 million unique users to reclaim its number one position. The rankings have been fairly uncharacteristic of late, with… Continue reading ABCe April 2009: Guardian crawls back to top spot

Daily Mail & General Trust has reported a 47% fall in adjusted pre-tax profits to £77 million for the six months to 29 March. The owner of the Daily Mail also suffered an 85% drop in operating profit at its regional division and a 59% fall across its national newspaper business. It said that the… Continue reading DMGT pre-tax profits fall 47%

Developed Asian markets such as Japan and Korea have stormed ahead of Europe and North America in mass uptake of mobile multimedia, according to a new report from TNS. The number of consumers using mobile TV features in Japan and Korea has more than doubled in the last year, rising from 14% to 32%, said… Continue reading Developed Asian mobile multimedia markets storm ahead of Europe

Specialist magazine publisher Future has revealed an 11% fall in revenue for the six months to the end of March. Future’s revenue was £76.6 million for the period, a 2% year-on-year fall or 11% when the effects of currency exchange are removed. Overall circulation revenues, accounting for 59% of total revenues, were down 10% year… Continue reading Future reports 11% fall in revenue

Americans conducted 14.8 billion core searches last month, up 3% on March, according to April 2009 data from comScore. Google Sites led the US core search market for the month with 9.5 billion (64.2%) searches conducted. It was followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3 billion searches (20.4%), and Microsoft Sites with 1.2 billion searches (8.2%).… Continue reading Americans conducted 14.8bn online searches in April

Tuesday night’s TV saw BBC One come up trumps with its Holby City/New Tricks double-header from 8pm.Hospital drama Holby City, on for an hour from 8pm had a peak of 5.7 million viewers (a 25.9% share of the audience) with an average of 5.6 million tuning in for its entire running time.Following straight on was… Continue reading Tuesday night success for cops and docs