More Media Commentators articles

Ping! 9.50am Last Friday an email hits my inbox from the National Readership Survey (NRS).

To say it was eagerly awaited may be a slight exaggeration but nonetheless I had a deadline and my editor’s strict on time.

Elliott Muscant, MD of Carat Manchester, on the inaugural IPA Media Owner Awards.

James Whitmore, managing director of Postar, on the “Filth and the Fury” that could be relevant for electronic trading.

The trouble with the Leveson inquiry – is that it is starting to create such a dust cloud that other respectable media stories are being obscured and seem almost boring by comparison.

Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on Amazon, tablets and the future of smartphones.

The digital market has been through its period where traditional media brands had seemed unable to make the digital market place viable for their media assets.

Neil Sharman, head of research and analysis, Telegraph Media Group, looks at the signs that retailers and economists will be reading in a nervous run up to Christmas 2011.

I am not big on research…well unless it’s the sort of robust sampling research used by some of my favourite mags on what’s hot and what’s not in the style stakes.

There is another walking, breathing, potential solution to at least some of the problems of the local publishing industry and he is called Sir Ray Tindle. Tindle Newspapers, famously started after the war with Sir Ray’s £300 demob payment, has always seemed particular – one man’s vision.

I always enjoy reading Greg Grimmer’s blogs and last week’s was no exception. His memories of trading (intellectual) blows with Phil Georgiadis at Media 360 a few years ago – about the future of online advertising – felt both nostalgic and curiously contemporary at the same time. There was one paragraph, though, that got me thinking about the whole topic of reach and frequency and its relevance in today’s communications landscape.