Channel 5 enjoyed yet another bumper month of increased revenues in January – up 14.8% on last year. The channel has posted a run of positive results under Richard Desmond’s ownership.
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The third and final Diamond Queen won the peak-hour ratings for BBC One last night with more than six million viewers.
So the Grammy’s unsurprisingly (I will explain why I say it that way in a moment) set all sorts of records for social TV. Just like the Superbowl did a few weeks ago. I call this a big yawner, but first, some definitions…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) has raised its global ad forecast from 1.4% to 2% in 2012 to reflect recent GDP upgrades and stronger than expected trends in Q4.
In light of the recent announcement that News International will launch the Sun on Sunday this weekend, Newsline gathered thoughts from two leading media agencies.
The Sun on Sunday will hit the newsstands next Sunday (26th Feb). The announcement was splashed across the front page of The Sun this morning.
BBC One’s Sherlock and Call The Midwife topped January’s programme rankings with 10.7 million viewers each.
Speaking to MediaTel Newsline this morning, Alan Brydon, head of investment at MPG Media Contacts, and a former advertising sales director of the Evening Standard, says that the launch timing has caught everyone out, but he expects a strong product, which will turn in a profit – to the detriment of other titles in the sector…
When the social media boom first emerged around three years ago, I attended several conferences where the phrase “word of mouth is the new television” was bandied about with hardly a murmur (apart from my good self). It is patently nonsense and completely fails to recognise that, far from being in competition, television plus social media is a match made in heaven.
Gary Cole, commercial director, O2 Media, says the consumer and the environment is changing at such dramatic pace that if agencies don’t start seriously considering mobile, their communications strategy or media plan will be dramatically less effective…
