Daily Newspaper MarketAugust’s daily national newspaper ABCs show an overall year on year circulation downturn of 2.2%, with only the Financial Times bucking the trend by adding 2.5% to its circulation.In the Quality sector, the Times saw the greatest actual loss of sales at over 36,000 year on year for the month, whilst the Daily… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: August 2007
thelondonpaper remained ahead of the London Lite in August, although it suffered a month on month decline of just over 54,500 copies.Its total circulation now stands at around 495,900 copies, whilst the London Lite has a circulation of almost 406,300 after an increase of over 5,700 copies month on month.The evening paid-for title Evening Standard… Continue reading thelondonpaper Sees Circulation Decline In August
Associated Newspapers and Northcliffe Media, its sister company, have unveiled plans for major online investment.The digital agency Conchango has been asked to develop new ways of accessing news content through the publisher’s newspaper websites.The deal, believed to be worth £1 million, will see Conchango develop technology and applications using Microsoft Silverlight, a new rich internet… Continue reading Associated Plans Major Online Investment
The latest estimate from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) suggests that the growth rate of the UK economy slowed slightly in the three months ending in August to 0.7% after 0.8% in the quarter ending in July. The NIESR expects to see a further slight deceleration in the rest of this… Continue reading UK Economic Growth Rate Slows Slightly
Yahoo! has acquired BlueLithium, the online global ad network, for approximately $300 million in cash. According to comScore Media Metrix, BlueLithium is the fifth largest ad network in the US and second largest in the UK with 145 million unique visitors each month. Jerry Yang, chief executive officer, Yahoo!, said: “BlueLithium’s products, technology and team… Continue reading Yahoo! Buys Online Ad Network
Aegis Group has reported a first-half pre-tax profit of £41.3 million, up 8.7% from £38 million a year earlier. The group also reported organic revenue growth of 9.6%, whilst its revenue was up 7.7% to £499 million. Aegis Media and its market research company Synovate both delivered revenue growth ahead of their markets, at 9.8%… Continue reading Aegis First-Half Profits Up
Travel, communities and research websites receive the most click-throughs from search engines whilst research, travel destinations and government sites rely most on search for visitors, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. NetRatings said that in July 2007, Britons clicked on over 1.3 billion search results – equating to over 29,000 every single minute. The multi-category… Continue reading UK Search Engine Click-Throughs Revealed
The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to conduct a review of the imposed contract rights renewal (CRR) on ITV.The review, to be conducted in partnership with Ofcom, is scheduled for early next year.The OFT said that further information will be published “when the review commences”.ITV responded to the news in a… Continue reading OFT To Conduct Review Of CRR
Emap Advertising has announced a major new deal with Debenhams to sponsor the FHM2 supplement available with FHM‘s September issue.Debenhams is partnering with FHM2 – an integral bound in supplement, which explores and expands on a core value of FHM every month – to target its male audience with the aim of positioning itself as… Continue reading Emap Advertising Announces FHM2 Sponsorship Deal
The new TV ad campaign from eBay will use 10-second advertisements featuring a live-feed direct from the eBay auction website.The ads, which show real-time auction listing, are the first work produced by Albion since it won the account in July.The campaign breaks on September 9 and retains the eBay animated Logo people, although they have… Continue reading eBay To Launch Live Ads
