Emap has unveiled a new look for its rock music magazine Kerrang! this week, described by editor Paul Rees as a “facelift”, after the ABC results for July-December 2001 revealed a dramatic upturn in the title’s fortunes.Mark Field, group account director for Emap Advertising’s cross media solutions said that the new look would make it… Continue reading Emap Metal Magazine Gets Facelift
No conference is complete without reference to this thorny topic and the Dow Jones’ Fourth Annual European Media and Entertainment Summit was no exception. Thomas Knipp, editor of Handelsblatt and associate publisher at the Wall Street Journal, painted an exciting picture of the “E-Paper”, a newspaper you can download (a plastic computer screen you can… Continue reading Can Publishers Make Money From The Internet?
Clear Channel Worldwide has announced the creation of a new division, Clear Channel Advantage, a cross-platform advertising department offering advertisers “single point of contact ad packages” incorporating the company’s TV, outdoor, entertainment and radio assets. According to Clear Channel president and COO, Mark Mays, “The Clear Channel Advantage advertiser may now exploit any combination of… Continue reading Clear Channel Launches Cross-Platform Ad Sales Division
There are small signs of recovering confidence amongst advertisers in the US, but they have yet to translate into any significant recovery in media spending, Aegis chairman Lord Sharman told the company’s AGM today. He added that market research spending is showing a modest improvement, helping to reduce the pressure felt on Aegis’ US market… Continue reading Aegis Cautious On Media Recovery, Europe Remains ‘Depressed’
ITV giants, Carlton Communications and Granada, will need to offer investors a new plan following the closure of their ITV Digital business last month (see Administrators Switch Off ITV Digital), according to analysts at Lehman Brothers. The broker says that part of this new game plan should be the strengthening of the core ITV channel… Continue reading Carlton And Granada Need ‘A New Plan’, Say Lehman Analysts
AFX News reports that the Guardian Media Group’s 180p per share cash offer for Jazz FM is going ahead, since no competing offer has yet been made that would have reversed the acceptance from Jazz FM’s main shareholder (see Guardian Media Group Makes £41m Offer For Jazz FM). The Board of Jazz FM has so… Continue reading Guardian’s Jazz FM Offer Goes Ahead
The best performance in yesterday’s media market came from Daily Mail, which is due to release its results at the end of this month. Shares rose 4.14% yesterday to close at £8.05 after an analyst said that the company was benefiting from not entering the tabloid price war.At the other end of the scale Jazz… Continue reading Sharewatch
The last twelve months have seen the advertising industry batten down its hatches against the looming threat of recession. However, while most of the UK’s main media sectors saw revenue fall year on year during 2001, figures published by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) show that the online industry has weathered the economic storm surprisingly… Continue reading Feature: Interactive Advertising Weathers The Storm
The Government’s Communications Bill is “one of the most consulted-on pieces of legislation in living memory” claimed MP Tessa Jowell yesterday. The Minister for Culture, Media and Sport was answering questions on the first day of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ European Media Summit in London.She stated that, starting with the White Paper and now at the Draft Bill… Continue reading Jowell Responds To Bill Questioning At Conference
Chrysalis-owned London radio station Heart 106.2 has appointed Tina Finch as its new marketing controller.Finch takes up the position on 5 June and will work to develop the Heart 106.2 brand across London and on a national scale. She joins from IPC where she was marketing manager for women’s celebrity title InStyle.Commenting on the appointment,… Continue reading Heart 106.2 Appoints New Marketing Controller
