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MySpace attracted more than 114 million global visitors age 15 and older in June 2007, representing a 72% increase year on year, according to the latest figures from comScore.Whilst MySpace remained the most popular social networking site in the world, Facebook experienced even stronger growth during that same time frame, jumping 270% to 52.2 million… Continue reading MySpace Remains Most Popular Social Networking Site

The third instalment of Heroes was on BBC Two last night at 9pm, with the audience down from last week’s double-bill.Episode three saw the pace move up a notch as Hiro managed to convince Ando that he transported himself five weeks into the future.A peak of 2.8 million adults watched Heroes, a 15.4% share of… Continue reading Viewers Leave Heroes

GCap Media’s new Gold network has released its on-air schedule, which will come into effect from Monday 6 August, featuring a new national Breakfast Show, a national Drivetime Show and a series of weekend specialist music shows.David Jensen takes over the coveted weekday Breakfast Show slot, which he will present alongside co-host Erica North from… Continue reading New Gold Network Releases Schedule

The Evening Standard, which has seen competition from the free afternoon papers in London over the past year, is to cut around 30 vendors from the capital’s streets.The move would see the paper’s street sales workforce shrink by about 8%, whilst parent company Associated Newspapers is said to be calling for voluntary redundancies among drivers… Continue reading Evening Standard Cuts Vendors In London

Sky has teamed up with News Group Newspapers (NGN), publisher of the Sun and News Of The World, to launch 24-7 Football, a new on-demand service that offers video highlights and goal clips from the Barclays Premier League and UEFA Champions League on mobile phones.In addition, each of the 92 Barclays Premier League matches broadcast… Continue reading Sky And News Group Launch Mobile Football Highlights

Reports are breaking that Channel 4 is to cut all profit-making phone-in competitions with the exception of Deal or No Deal, where its share of future profits will go to charity from August 13.The move is the latest in the ever-unfolding phone-in competition scandal, which has now claimed two top execs from GMTV.The controller of… Continue reading Channel 4 To Axe All Profit-Making Phone-In Comps

The repeat showing of forensic crime series, Waking The Dead, once again proved to be the Tuesday night ratings winner for BBC One in the 9pm to 10pm slot, gaining an adult audience of more than 3.4 million on average.The channel had a 17.3% viewing share in the timeslot for the thrilling drama programme, with… Continue reading BBC One Repeat Proves More Popular Than Big Brother

Google remained the most visited property in the UK with 27.7 million unique visitors in June, reaching 88% of the total UK online population, according to new research from comScore.Microsoft and eBay remained the second and third most visited properties in the UK, with 26.8 million and 22.1 million unique visitors respectively.comScore also found the… Continue reading Google Remains Most Visited Site In June

The new free men’s magazine created by former FHM editor, Mike Soutar, is to be called ShortList, and will hit the streets on Thursday 20 September.According to reports, 360,000 of the title’s 500,000 copies will be distributed in London, with the rest to be given out to commuters in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Leeds.ShortList… Continue reading Free Men’s Mag ShortList Grows

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a Virgin Media ad campaign which compared its services with that of Sky.The ASA upheld the complaints from Sky over Virgin Media’s “The real deal” campaign, saying that the ads were misleading.One of the complaints said that showing the supposed “real price” was misleading because it implied that… Continue reading Virgin Media Ad Campaign Banned