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From its humble beginnings to the immense worldwide web of today, the internet has flourished with astonishing rapidity, throwing up new developments, technologies and methods for reaching people with every year that passes. As the company turns 10, IAB chief executive, Guy Phillipson, talks to NewsLine about the medium’s continuing success in an ever-mutable media… Continue reading Online – Keeping Media Afloat

New DAB digital radio station theJazz has teamed up with PURE Digital and Marks & Spencer to launch the PURE ONE ‘theJazz’ edition portable DAB and FM radio.‘theJazz’ edition of ONE will be promoted online and on-air at theJazz and will be available exclusively from Marks & Spencer stores nationwide and online for £49.50.Darren Henley,… Continue reading theJazz Launches Branded DAB Radio

The Radio Times, the BBC’s long-running weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, has undergone a makeover in an effort to boost flagging sales.According to publisher BBC Magazines, the new look offering, which is in retail outlets from today, has been redesigned to give readers the “UK’s best-ever guide to digital TV and radio, with… Continue reading Radio Times Gets Revamp For Digital Age

BSkyB is to get rid of its monthly Sky+ subscription charge in an attempt to increase take-up and loyalty amongst its digital customers.The decision comes ahead of the launch of Freeview Playback (see Freeview Overtakes Sky), a new rival in the hard-drive recorder market.Sky has already dropped the £10-a-month subscription fee for customers signing up… Continue reading Sky+ Subscription Charge To End

Emap has announced that pre-tax profits have fallen 13% for the year ending March 31, to £193 million. The company’s underlying revenues were also down, by 1% to just over £1bn in the year to the end of March. Revenues at the company’s digital division increased by 32%, whilst overall (continuing) group revenues rising 4%… Continue reading Emap Sees Pre-Tax Profits Fall

A new report from Media-Screen says that US broadband users are spending 48% (approximately one hour and 40 minutes) of their spare time online in a typical weekday, with the trend increasing across all age groups. Additionally, the report entitled Netpop | Play, finds that when users are online, 54% of that time is spent… Continue reading US Broadband Users Spend Almost 50% Of Spare Time Online

A new report from Continental Research forecasts that 7.9 million UK adults will use VoIP at least once a year in 2010. It adds that over the next 12 months, 43% of those ever using VoIP in the UK, Germany, Japan and the US expect to increase their usage. In addition, 17% of those not… Continue reading Convergence To Increase

Yahoo! is understood to be weighing up a $1 billion (£500 million) bid for the social networking site Bebo. The potential purchase comes after it bid for Facebook last year, with discussions on that occasion ending with Facebook rejecting Yahoo!’s advances (see Facebook Rejected Yahoo! Bids). Bebo is the UK’s most popular social-networking site and… Continue reading Yahoo! Could Buy Bebo

Virgin Media could be subject to a £7.5 billion bid from a private equity consortium headed by US group Providence Equity Partners. A report in the Observer says that Providence Equity Partners is considering taking advantage of Virgin Media’s share price of £24. Last summer, Providence Equity Partners held talks with the cable group over… Continue reading Consortium Could Bid For Virgin Media

New figures from the Advertising Association (AA) reveal that advertising expenditure in the UK passed £19 billion in 2006. According to the AA figures, the press accounted for by far the largest share of total advertising expenditure (43.7%), with television the second largest medium (24.1%), followed by direct mail (12.2%), internet (10.6%), outdoor (5.7%), radio… Continue reading UK Adspend Passed £19 Billion In 2006