Publicis Groupe has acquired search marketing company Performics from Google, in a new deal announced today that is set to expand and strengthen its search marketing capabilities.Performics has over 150 search engine marketing clients and currently represents more than 200 global brands.Eric Schmidt, Google chairman and CEO, said: “Publicis Groupe has been a leader in… Continue reading Publicis Set To Acquire Search Firm From Google
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BBC Radio 5 Live has won the radio rights to broadcast FA Cup and England international matches for a further four years.The deal with the Football Association starts from the beginning of the 2008/09 football season with the Community Shield match between Manchester United and Portsmouth at Wembley on Sunday.Radio 5 Live and sister digital… Continue reading BBC Sport Wins Football Radio Rights
The Competition Commission has been forced to extend the deadline for its investigation into Project Kangaroo until next January, because ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide failed to submit information on time.The commission requested details from the partners of the broadband joint venture, so it could assess whether the project will result in a merger… Continue reading Investigation Into Project Kangaroo Pushed Back To 2009
Daily Newspaper MarketThe latest national newspaper ABC figures show that the daily national newspaper market was down by 4.1% year on year overall in June.The Sun was the only daily title in our analysis not to report a year on year decline in July. National Newspaper ABC Figures – July 2008 Daily Titles Jul-07 Jul-08… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: July 2008
July saw the Evening Standard‘s circulation fall by 1% month on month, a real term dip of almost 3,000 copies, leaving it with a total circulation of around 292,000 copies.Evening freesheets the London Lite and thelondonpaper now have totals of almost 402,000 and around 500,000 copies respectively.Morning freesheet City AM was down by around 13.5%… Continue reading Slight Circulation Dip For The Evening Standard
Blinkx, the online video search engine, has made a $1.20 per share bid for digital media firm MIVA. MIVA (formerly known as FindWhat), operates in North America and Europe and has two core divisions running consumer destination sites and interest-specific toolbars and a third-party contextual Pay-Per-Click ad network. Blinkx has been working with MIVA as… Continue reading Blinkx To Buy Digital Media Firm MIVA
Wireless broadband services will create significant opportunities for revenue growth, according to the latest report from Analysys Mason. Globally, 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers will generate USD784 billion in service revenue by 2015. This revenue increase of about 2400% will be underpinned by continued developments in wireless technologies, improvements in devices and more flexible pricing… Continue reading Wireless Broadband To Exceed 2bn Customers By 2015
Virgin Media has outperformed analyst expectations, reporting an underlying operating profit of £333 million for the second quarter of 2008. The company reported revenues of £990.5 million, with average revenue per subscriber slightly down to £41.63. It saw an operating loss of £333 million in the second quarter, compared with a £3 million profit in… Continue reading Virgin Media Reports £333m Underlying Profit
A new forecast from Juniper Research predicts that 2.1bn mobile subscribers will “pay by mobile” for digital goods downloaded to their mobile phones by 2013. Juniper defines digital goods as music (ringtones and full tracks), tickets, TV, user-generated content, infotainment and games – in fact any content bought by phone and delivered to the phone.… Continue reading Digital Goods Purchases Via Mobile Phones To Increase
The News of the World is set to relaunch its website next week, with a new football blog section dedicated to each Premier League club.The new look website will also feature more video content, add new templates and incorporate an improved search function, according to reports.Football fans and fanzine editors from unofficial club websites will… Continue reading News Of The World Set To Unveil New look Website
