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June was a terrible month for all terrestrial stations, with year on year revenue falls seen amongst all stations. The failure of England to qualify for Euro 2008 had been predicted to impact on ITV1’s revenue, and that proved to be the case, with the network recording a year on year decline of 1.8% on… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – June 2008

Trinity Mirror has developed a mobile web platform for its newspaper titles in a deal with Nokia and Bluestar Mobile.The Daily Mirror will be one of the first papers to be made available to readers via their mobile phones when the sites launch in the autumn this year.Trinity developed the sites to offer readers instant… Continue reading Trinity Set To Launch Mobile Web Platform For The Daily Mirror

Kiss 100 is set to launch its radio service via Apple’s new iPhone, allowing fans to listen to the station on their mobile phone.Listeners will be able to access Kiss at www.totalkiss.com via their iPhone’s mobile internet browser, which will also incorporate an exclusive ‘audio bumper’ before the live coverage.It will be the first time… Continue reading Kiss Launches Radio Stream Via iPhone

Bauer Media has announced the appointment of Marco Nadotti to the newly created role of head of video acquisition and syndication.Nadotti will be expected to expand video services across Bauer’s portfolio of websites, which currently serve around two million videos a month.His brief is to work with current Bauer brands such as FHM, Kiss, Magic… Continue reading Bauer Appoints New Video Acquisition Chief

Havas has reported a 3.6% year on year rise in revenue to €755 million (£596.8 million). It also announced organic growth of 7.86% in the first half of the year. The company, which owns ad agencies including Euro RSCG and media planning and buying network MPG, said that European countries such as Portugal, Italy and… Continue reading Havas Reports Revenue Rise

New research has found that the majority (84%) of 25-34 year olds have left a favourite website because of intrusive or irrelevant advertising. The research, published by HowTo.tv, found that 73% of web users have left a favourite website because of intrusive or annoying ads, rising to 84% for 25-34 year olds, an increase of… Continue reading New Research Looks At Intrusive Online Ads

Publicis Groupe has revealed that its European operations revenue growth was mixed during the first six months of the year, with global profits falling 3% year on year in the second quarter. Publicis said that all geographic zones reported satisfactory growth, including North America, with 5.5% revenue growth during the H1 compared with the same… Continue reading Mixed European Performance For Publicis

Revenues from mobile data services are set to exceed US$200 billion this year for the first time, according to a new global report from Informa Telecoms & Media. Total mobile data revenues were approximately US$157 billion in 2007, with research from the first quarter of 2008 revealing that revenues exceeded US$49 billion, accounting for a… Continue reading Mobile Data Service Revenues Set To Rise

RAJAR figures for Q2 2008 show that BBC Radio 2 had the highest weekly reach of all of the national stations, at around 13 million listeners, although it was down both period on period and year on year, by around 4.7% and 0.9% respectively.BBC Radio 1’s weekly reach now stands at around 10.7 million listeners… Continue reading BBC Radio 2 Weekly Reach Declines But Still On Top

Telmar has launched a new web-based search tool for its subscribers, which will enable media companies to search their research data more efficiently, according to the company.The search and analysis tool has been named ReSearch Guru by the US-owned media software supplier.The tool has been designed to export search results in seconds into Excel and… Continue reading Telmar Launches New Research Guru