Greg Grimmer looks back at 2011 – Facebook’s ever-increasing IPO valuation, Stephen Haines’ move from Earlsfield to Monaco, the royal media wedding and the News of the World fiasco, right through to December’s silly season in Fitzrovia…
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While we have all been fixated by the daily mayhem oozing out from the Leveson Committee another potentially more important inquiry has been moving at its usual, seemingly glacial, speed towards an outcome.
BARB’s future focus is on measuring viewing on other devices. It is adding web TV measurement to a further 1000 panel homes next year and this could be the point at which it can start reporting on viewing through laptops and PCs.
The Financial Times now earns more from consumers through subscription revenue than advertising, delegates at the Ignition conference were told.
New research launched today (1st December) by IPC Media has found that 50% of consumers think that advertising on premium content sites is well matched to the sites. This compares to 28% for portal sites and 30% for social networking sites.
With the return of ‘I’m a Celebrity’ and the likes of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ pulling in the Saturday night ratings, British fascination with celebrity culture is as fixed as ever.
Anyone with even a vague interest in the future of newspapers should pause for a moment and ponder the fate of two small newspapers in Kent – the Medway News and the East Kent Gazette.
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.
The quality market titles, both the dailies and Sundays, were the biggest losers in readership terms, year on year for the 12 months ending September 2011.
Most of the online UK national newspapers saw an increase in traffic in October with MailOnline continuing to draw in the most traffic, according to data released today by ABC.