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Last night’s jungle antics on ITV1 saw an upturn in viewers watching the programme, compared to the previous night, with an average of almost 6.4 million adults tuning in to I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!The programme, which saw contestants having to devour a series of disgusting creatures from the bush – such… Continue reading Bush Tucker Trials Lure 6.4 Million

Mobile measurement firm M:Metrics has developed a service to record and report on advertisements appearing on mobile websites and devices.Called M:AdTracker, the intelligence offering resembles web-based services like Nielsen AdRelevance and TNS Media Intelligence.M:Metrics has deployed a proprietary data collection technology to monitor ads across 120 properties, including portals, major mobile sites, and a few… Continue reading M:Metrics Develops Service To Record And Report On Mobile Ads

ITV is attempting to deliver Michael Grade’s pledge of more drama programmes following the unveiling of its winter schedule for the broadcaster’s flagship channel.Modern comedies and drama seem to be largely the focus, with a fictional drama called Rock Rivals in which viewers call in and vote for their preferred ending.The programme, from the makers… Continue reading ITV Delivers More Drama For Winter

The UK’s commercial radio industry body, RadioCentre, has revealed that total revenue figures for Q3 2007 have risen to £148,975,023, a year on year increase of 5.4%.National revenue for the quarter saw an increase of 7.7% year on year to £81,565,266, whilst revenues for sales and promotions saw the largest growth rising 8% to a… Continue reading Q3 Commercial Radio Revenues Up Almost 5.5%

Publicis Groupe is to launch the Insight Factory, a collaborative “open architecture” advertising model that will pool services from ad agency network Leo Burnett, media operation Starcom MediaVest and digital operation Digitas.Tom Bernardin, the chairman and chief executive of Leo Burnett Worldwide, said the idea would be to create a central resource for clients.“The Insight… Continue reading Publicis Launches New Ad Model

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! saw its audience drop to an average of 5.8 million adults for the second episode last night, against strong competition from the likes of Spooks on BBC One and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares on Channel 4.As the ‘celebs’ continued to settle in to jungle life and loudmouthed ex-model… Continue reading 5.8 Million Stick With I’m A Celebrity…

Sky Anytime, Sky’s VoD service, is to expand via PCs and television sets, with the possibility that the PC service could carry ads.Anytime currently spans TV, PC and mobile, but the company is said to be preparing several initiatives to build its on-demand presence, as VoD services from rival TV players start to become popular.According… Continue reading Sky Anytime PC Service Could Carry Ads

ITV has launched a music section on its newly revamped itv.com website, in a bid to attract more viewers to music-related shows such as The X-Factor.ITV.com/music combines exclusive footage from programmes with the site’s seven-day catch-up service, and a downloads service that promotes tracks related to ITV content.The music store has been established in partnership… Continue reading ITV.com Ads Music Arm To Site

American digital video recording service, TiVo, is to offer advertisers demographic information on TV viewers, in a move to help companies track who is fast forwarding ads.The firm’s new Power||Watch service provides data such as age, income and ethnicity, and so far has more than 22,000 TiVo users signed up to share this information with… Continue reading TiVo Now Able To Reveal Demographic Data To Advertisers

Google’s purchase of online ad-serving company, DoubleClick, is to be investigated more extensively, after the European Commission announced it was taking the rare step of instigating a second-phase review of the $3.1 billion deal. The European Commission’s Competition Unit will investigate in greater detail (see Google DoubleClick Deal Under Pressure From Consumer Group) whether a… Continue reading DoubleClick Purchase Under Further Scrutiny