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Dow Jones, the US publishing group which owns the Wall Street Journal, has reported Q3 financials slightly ahead of previously lowered figures, but warned that the final quarter could be down on estimates if the current market conditions continues, as is expected. The WSJ has seen its advertising revenues substantially knocked so far this year… Continue reading Tough Ad Market Continues To Hit Dow Jones

NBC, the US broadcasting network owned by General Electric, has agreed to buy Hispanic broadcaster Telemundo for $2.7 billion (£1.9 billion) in stock and cash. The deal gives NBC a good foot-holding in the fast-growing Spanish language market.

Rupert Murdoch has said that his media company, News Corporation, will lose £69 million as a result of the terrorist attacks in the United States. Speaking at the company’s annual meeting in Adelaide, Australia, he told shareholders: “Advertising is going through a very uncertain time. We have been in a recessionary period for the last… Continue reading News Corp Loses £69m Following Attacks

Yesterday’s trading saw a few encouraging increases in the value of media shares, including a 21p jump from Taylor Nelson Sofres which meant it ended up 13.3% on the previous day’s closing price, at £1.78˝.WPP made the not unexpected announcement that it would try to leave the Tempus deal by invoking a clause in its… Continue reading Sharewatch

Channel 4 has appointed Murray Boland as the new head of programmes at its digital entertainment channel E4.Boland, currently head of programmes at MTV UK, will take up the position in January. He replaces Andrew Newman, who is going on to become head of entertainment at Channel 5.E4’s general manager, Dan Brooke, said: “Murray’s programme… Continue reading New Head Of Programmes Appointed At E4

Natmags has announced details of a revamp and marketing drive for Best, the title which has taken it into the women’s weekly market for the first time. This month’s issue will be supported by a regional radio advertising campaign, backed up with posters placed in around 30 Sainsbury’s supermarkets for a two week period in… Continue reading Natmags Unveils Best Marketing

JCDecaux and wireless marketing firm FlyTxt are launching an SMS poster advertising service, allowing advertisers to combine street furniture campaigns with wireless marketing technology.The PosterTxt initiative launches at the end of the year and will enable advertisers to use a range of wireless marketing tools including text messages, multi-media messages and wireless games, to create… Continue reading JCDecaux Launches SMS Ad Service

Amazon.co.uk was the top online advertiser for women during August. The online retailer gained exposure among 2,080,000 unique women internet users during the month and commanded 36.4% reach of the total UK at home internet audience. Capitalone.co.uk climbed from seventh position in July to fourth in August with visits from 1,925,000 women throughout the month.… Continue reading New Media Round-Up

Three of the new media industry’s key advertising bodies have today launched a joint set of voluntary guidelines to regulate the buying and selling of advertising online.The standards offer regulation for a number of online trading issues including data protection and transparency, billing payment and credit terms and the relationship between reporting and payment. IAB,… Continue reading Online Ad Bodies Launch New Web Guidelines

Consumers with low intention of buying digital television may be persuaded by seeing a demonstration of what’s available, according to new research. A independent study conducted by Marketing Direction found that 47% of non-subscribing respondents who were classified as unlikely to subscribe (rating 3-5 out of 10 on a “purchase intent” scale) changed their minds… Continue reading Digital Sceptics May Be Converted