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TV Choice ignored the overall downward trend for TV listings magazines, bolstering its circulation year on year for July to December 2007 and scooping top spot.The title now reports a total ABC of over 1.4 million, following a rise of around 51,500 issues year on year.What’s On TV moves to second place in the featured… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007:TV Choice Scoops Top Spot Of TV Listings Mags Following Circulation Upturn

Conde Nast’s handbag sized women’s monthly Glamour remained the top title in the sector in the latest ABC release, for July to December 2007, although it suffered a year on year fall of 6.5%.It now has a circulation of just over 550,000 copies, well in front of the second place women’s monthly, Good Housekeeping.Good Housekeeping… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007:Glamour On Top Of Women’s Monthly Sector

The latest ABC figures, for July to December 2007, show a pretty mixed six months in the teen sector, although there were some healthy circulation increases.The teen market has been through a turbulent time recently, with the National Magazine Company axing its trial digital magazine Jellyfish (see NatMags Axes Jellyfish After Trial Problems) in June,… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007: Mixed Six Months For Teen Sector

Long-running weekly financial magazine, The Business, has been axed and is to be replaced by a new monthly, Spectator Business.Martin Vander Weyer, the Spectator‘s business editor, will edit the new title when it launches in the spring.Barclay brothers’ owned The Business will cease publishing from this week and Press Holdings Media, the company that owns… Continue reading The Business Is Axed In Favour Of New Monthly

BSkyB’s customer magazine continued to be the most widely circulated consumer magazine in Britain, with an ABC of over 7.2 million for July to December 2007.This represented an upturn from just over seven million copies for January to June 2007 for the title, which is mailed out to Sky subscribers.Today’s ABC release for the second… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007: Men’s And Women’s Magazines Record Significant Declines

Mobile Social Networking is already an established service in some regions, but in 2008 and beyond new features are attracting larger numbers of users and permitting new business opportunities, according to new research from Informa Telecoms & Media. The Mobile Social Networking: Communities and Content on the Move report concludes that the number of mobile… Continue reading Mobile Social Networking Revenues Could Reach US$52 billion by 2012

Omnicom Group has announced that net income for the fourth quarter of 2007 increased 13.2% to $313.9 million from $277.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2006. Worldwide revenue increased 12.7% to $3,626.0 million, from $3,216.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2006. Domestic revenue for Q4 increased 9.5% to $1,845.9 million compared to $1,685.1… Continue reading Omnicom Posts Revenue Increase

Global Radio, which made a £313 million bid for GCap Media in December, said yesterday that it is keeping its options open regarding another bid. GCap rejected Global’s original bid saying that it “significantly undervalued the company” (see GCap Turns Down Takeover Bid From Global Radio). In a statement to the City last night, Global… Continue reading Global Radio Could Return With GCap Bid

Four groups were expected to submit first round bids for Virgin Radio by today’s deadline. Bidders for the SMG owned station are understood to include Charles Allen’s Global Radio, UTV (see UTV Could Bid For Virgin Radio) and private equity firm Vitruvian Partners. Global Radio bought Chrysalis’ radio division, including the Heart and Galaxy brands,… Continue reading Deadline For Virgin Radio Bids

Social networking is here to stay, but the dramatic growth the sites have experienced over the past few years will settle, and marketers and advertisers will have to discover the best ways to capitalise on the format, according to panellists at yesterday’s MediaTel Group ‘Future of Online’ seminar. “I think the socialisation of media absolutely… Continue reading Social Networking Growth To Settle