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Daily Newspaper MarketIn the six months to September, the daily newspaper market showed an overall fall in readership of 0.7% year on year, although some titles did manage to post healthy rises in their reader numbers.For the Quality dailies, only one title managed to record year on year growth.In the Mid-Market, although both the Daily… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: September 2007

The recent unveiling of Kangaroo – the joint on-demand video service from BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 – has stirred the ever-changing IPTV and VoD market.With such a wealth of content available to the three broadcast behemoths, Kangaroo is likely to be highly successful, with many suggesting it will push the likes of Joost… Continue reading Feature: Content-Rich Kangaroo Looks To Dominate VoD Market

The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has launched a guide to the Audiovisual Media Services (AMS) directive, which updates and replaces the existing EU framework for the television and broadcast industry.Taking over from the Television without Frontiers (TWF) directive, the AMS directive will see existing rules for traditional TV enforced for mobile multimedia services, including mobile… Continue reading Mobile Industry Gets Guide To New EU Directive

A new report from the National Consumer Council (NCC) has called for children to be better protected from online ads on some of their favourite websites.The Fair Game report found that lots of the websites popular with children are actually targeted at older age groups, which means that some of the ads children see are… Continue reading Report Claims Children Need More Protection From Online Ads

IPC TX has appointed Gareth Beesley as publisher of TV Times, TV & Satellite Week and Soaplife.Beesley is currently associate publisher of IPC Ignite monthlies Uncut and Loaded, before which he was associate publisher of IPC Inspire’s technology portfolio.Before working in publishing he was circulation manager for IPC TX and was part of the launch… Continue reading IPC Appoints New Publisher For TV And Soap Mags

Duncan Edwards, chief executive of the National Magazine Company, has confirmed that the company has pulled out of the bidding for Emap’s consumer magazine division. Edwards emailed staff earlier today to say that he would not be buying the business, according to a report on MediaGuardian.co.uk. The report quotes the email as saying: “As I… Continue reading NatMags Pulls Out Of Emap Bidding

Universal McCann’s latest global ad forecast predicts worldwide advertising to reach $653.9 billion in 2008, a year on year rise of 4.6%, with the UK forecast to grow 3.5% year on year in 2008 following a rise of 3.8% this year. It expects advertising in the US to grow much slower than the rest of… Continue reading Worldwide Advertising To Reach $653.9bn In 2008

ITV has acquired independent producer 12 Yard for an initial cash consideration of £26 million. A further payment of up to £9 million may be made in 2011, part of which is contingent on profit performance over a three-year period. 12 Yard, a joint venture between Hat-Trick Productions Limited and the management team of David… Continue reading ITV Acquires Production Company 12 Yard

Bertelsmann, owner of book publisher Random House, has approached its subsidiary RTL about buying the remaining 10% of shares it does not own. Bertelsmann has been gradually increasing its stake in RTL, owner of Five and one of the largest producers of TV outside of the US through its subsidiary Fremantle Media. In a statement,… Continue reading Bertelsmann Makes Approach For Remaining RTL Shares

The latest forecast from ZenithOptimedia predicts that UK newspaper advertising spend is forecast to grow next year by 1.1%, the first increase since 2004. In its worldwide forecast, Zenith is predicting a 2.7% increase in newspaper advertising spend (see Global Ad Market To Grow In 2008). Magazine adspend is forecast to increase 0.1% next year,… Continue reading UK Newspaper Adspend Forecast To Grow