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IPC’s film and music magazine, Uncut is celebrating its one hundredth issue and its highest circulation ever, with a star studded party over a three night residency at London’s 100 Club next month.Music acts involved include, Sons & Daughters, Adem, James Yorkston and Kaythryn Williams, with the gigs kicking off celebrations on the Wednesday, Thursday… Continue reading Uncut Celebrates 100th Issue And Circulation Success

Pearson Publishing, owners of the Financial Times and the Penguin books, has announced the appointment of Glen Moreno as its new chairman, with the new boss due to take up his post on 1st October.Moreno will succeed Pearson’s current chairman, Dennis Stevenson, who is retiring.The new chairman is currently the senior independent director of Man… Continue reading Pearson Names Moreno As New Chairman

The Media Research Group is to conduct a review of its direction and relevance, questioning its members and making changes to its remit in order to maintain a focus on the industry’s most pressing topics.The findings of the review will be presented at the MRG one-day conference in November, following qualitative research conducted by Quaestor… Continue reading MRG To Consult Members On Future Direction

Digital radio broadcaster and programme producer, UBC Media Group, has announced an increase of 39% in advertising revenues year on year for the first six months of 2005. The company’s fortunes have been boosted by a strong first quarter with trading “significantly” higher than last year. Speaking at the group’s annual meeting, John Hodson, chairman… Continue reading UBC Sees Strong Growth In Ad Revenues

Pearson Publishing, owners of the Financial Times and the Penguin books, has announced the appointment of Glen Moreno as its new chairman, with the new boss due to take up his post on 1st October. Moreno will succeed Pearson’s current chairman, Dennis Stevenson, who is retiring. The new chairman is currently the senior independent director… Continue reading Pearson Appoints Moreno As New Chairman

Europe has overtaken North America as the second largest broadband market in the world, with Strategy Analytics predicting total broadband penetration in Western Europe to reach 63% by 2010, with 93% of online households using broadband to access the internet. Strategy Analytic’s Europe Surges Ahead on Broadband report forecasts that, by the end of the… Continue reading Europe Overtakes North America In Broadband Penetration

June saw a new record for text messages, with a total of 86.7 million messages sent on average per day throughout the month, topping 2.6 billion messages in total, according to new figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA). The MDA showed person to person texts sent across the UK GSM network operators last month… Continue reading June Sets Record For Number Of Text Messages Sent

Innovative advertisers can take advantage of the impending growth in personal video recorder (PVR) take-up, with new research from media agency Starcom showing that fast forward technology allows adverts to be seen in an uncluttered environment, resulting in a greater ‘share of mind,’ making them more likely to be recalled. Previous industry opinion was that… Continue reading Strong Creative Helps Negate PVR Ad Avoidance

Consumers are increasingly using their mobile phones to play music and games, and gamble, opening up lucrative new revenue streams for mobile and content industries, resulting in the global mobile entertainment market predicted to be worth $42.8 billion by 2010. Informa Telecoms & Media’s new Mobile Entertainment report claims that emerging new markets, such as… Continue reading Global Entertainment Market To Reach $42.8 Billion By 2010

Advertisements on the London Underground train network will be included in the POSTAR survey following the accreditation of the Tube Research Audience Classification (TRAC) system by POSTAR’s management.Helen Tridgell, managing director of POSTAR, announced today that the move is the first step towards unified out of home media measurement, expressing delight at the inclusion of… Continue reading POSTAR Expands To Include Tube Advertisements