Auto Trader Interactive has been issued with its second ABC //electronic certificate, showing that during April the http://www.autotrader.co.uk/ site received 2.646 million page impressions. This is up from 1.030 million for August last year.ABC //electronic: 01442 870 800
Associated New Media’s This Is London website has won the grand prix award at the New Media Age Effectiveness Awards event.The award, which is selected from the winners in each category, is aimed at reflecting a range of new media “ideals”, such as online promotion, design, build, targeting, branding and interactivity. Judges described Evening Standard… Continue reading This Is London Scoops Top New Media Award
Haymarket has announced the acquisition of IPC’s suspended Goal magazine (see IPC To Close Two Titles). The title will be merged into Haymarket’s FourFourTwo from the July issue, which is released on June 3.FourFourTwo‘s circulation currently stands at just over 88,000 and has been increasing steadily.Haymarket: 0181 943 5000
The European Union has given British Interactive Broadcasting, the joint venture formed by BT, BSkyB, Midland Bank and Matsushita to provide digital TV interactive services, the all-clear to launch later this year.BiB was forced, however, to make concessions on a number of issues. The most important is that BiB must allow third parties access to… Continue reading EU Clears BIB For Launch
It has just emerged that JC Decaux’s bid to take over its rival outdoor firm More Group has been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.Nigel Griffiths, Competition and Consumer Affairs Minister, said that he would be taking the Office of Fair Trading’s advice and require the MMC to investigate the proposal more closely.The news… Continue reading MMC To Investigate Decaux Bid
A new magazine aimed at what its editor describes as “the sophisticated black man” launches this week.Untold is a bi-monthly glossy which hopes for sales of around the 30,000 mark. It has been launched by editor Peter Akinti and has formed a partnership with Time Out magazine, which involves the London listings guide providing editorial… Continue reading Untold Launches This Week
The House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport today published a report which said that the BBC’s commercial and public service functions should be independently regulated whilst calling for a streamlining of content regulation. This would include the abolition of the Broadcasting Standards Commission.Following the release of The Multi-Media Revolution report, the… Continue reading House Of Commons Seeks New Regulation Rules
Southnews, publisher of 58 paid-for and free newspapers in London and the Home Counties, has announced record financial results for the year ended 28 March 1998.Pre-tax profits at Southnews rose 17% year on year to £7.4m while revenues rose 18% to £43.6m. It was also announced that the restructuring of the acquired United Southern titles… Continue reading Southnews Confident Of Successful Year
Chris Shaw, joint managing director of Universal McCann, praised the introduction of the Quality of Readership Survey and said that if its presence undermines the NRS then “so what?”Speaking at yesterday’s PPA Magazines ’98 conference Shaw went on to say that NRS was “hardly the most stable currency” and he had lost count of the… Continue reading QRS: If It Undermines NRS “So What?”
