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Encouraging sales of magazines should enable Future Network, the international publisher, to post an increase in revenues for 2003, the company said today. Future stated that trading patterns had remained positive in the final months of the year and annual turnover is expected to exceed that for 2002 by 11%. In a statement today, the… Continue reading Future Network Stays On Track

Market information provider, Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) says it is confident that 2003 turnover will meet expectations and believes that its performance will mirror the industry as a whole in the coming year. TNS acknowledges that the speed of the integration of NFO, the research business acquired from Interpublic last year (see TNS Shares Jump… Continue reading Taylor Nelson Looks To Build On 2003 Successes

Media stocks were lifted higher yesterday as the market continued to react to Monday’s announcement from Aegis. The media and market research firm raised its forecasts for advertising growth this year amid signs of improving corporate confidence (see Aegis On Track To Deliver Strong Growth This Year).Granada put in one of the strongest performances of… Continue reading Sharewatch: Media Stocks Rise On Positive Sentiment

Market information provider, Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) says it is confident that 2003 turnover will meet expectations and believes that its performance will mirror the industry as a whole in the coming year.TNS is currently in the process of integrating NFO, the research business acquired from Interpublic last year and calculates that it can achieve… Continue reading Taylor Nelson Looks To Build On 2003 Successes

Chief executive of Emap Performance, Tim Schoonmaker, has announced his intention to step down after more than a decade at the helm of the UK radio and digital television division.Schoonmaker will continue his association with Emap and from March will work as a consultant to the company in the development of its digital radio and… Continue reading Schoonmaker Steps Down As Emap Performance Boss

MindShare has announced that futures director, Jed Glanvill, has been promoted to the role of managing director with effect from 1 January.The new position will see Glanville assume responsibility for further developing MindShare’s ‘house of media’ proposition, which aims to offer clients strategic thinking, ideas and execution.Glanville will work closely with communications director, Rosie Faulkner,… Continue reading MindShare Appoints Jed Glanvill As Managing Director

ISBA is urging its members to show their support for plans to introduce a new self-regulatory system for broadcast advertising following Ofcom’s decision to extend its consultation on the subject.The new media super-regulator is seeking further views on its proposals to contract out the rules governing television and radio advertising to a new co-regulatory system,… Continue reading ISBA Calls On Advertisers To Get Behind Self-Regulation

The Telegraph Group is attempting to improve its advertising sales operation with a restructure that will see a team of strategy executives work within the agency sales teams on a daily basis.The initiative will see each of the four teams covering newspapers and magazines assigned a planner from the commercial development department, who work alongside… Continue reading Telegraph Group Restructures Advertising Sales Division

Derek Manns, out of home and radio director for Starcom Motive’s investment unit, has been appointed as the new group head of radio, cinema and outdoor at sister company Starcom MediaVest.The new position will see Manns work alongside Matthew Blackborn, executive buying director at Starcom MediaVest, to create and develop the company’s recently launched out… Continue reading Manns Joins Starcom MediaVest In Group Head Role

The Radio Advertising Bureau is considering the possibility of restructuring its senior management team following the departure of its managing director, Justin Sampson, later this year.Sampson, who has been at the RAB since its establishment twelve years ago, is stepping down to take up a newly created role at ITV Sales, where he will work… Continue reading RAB Considers Management Structure As Sampson Departs