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The Local Radio Company has been forced to announce job cuts as it confirms plans to close headquarters in High Wycombe.TLRC’s chief executive William Rogers confirmed plans to close the office yesterday and said that while, in some cases, the company hopes to deploy staff to other areas of the business, redundancies would also be… Continue reading The Local Radio Company to close HQ

Jon Mitchell, Spotify UK sales director, explains why audio advertising will become the norm online…On Spotify you’d be hard pushed to see our listeners providing us with passionate feedback on our display ads. There’s barely a tweet questioning the Vodafone skyscraper or the Ford leaderboard. Generally it’s the audio ads that get all the attention… Continue reading Big Audio Dynamite – The case for audio advertising online

ITN’s multimedia video production operation is set to supply branded video content to the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday‘s website network Mail Online.The new partnership will see ITN On supply celebrity and lifestyle videos, branded news, business and showbiz news as well as film reviews and celebrity interviews to Mail Online.ITN On currently produces… Continue reading ITN to supply branded content to Mail Online

Reed Business Information is selling its B2B travel division, including magazines Travel Weekly and Travolution, to entrepreneur Clive Jacobs.He has agreed to buy the magazines and website Gazetteers.com, as well as associated online services and events, for an undisclosed sum.The former publishing director of Reed Business Information’s travel division, Simon Ferguson, will run the newly… Continue reading Reed Business Information sells B2B travel business

Our weekly columnist Raymond Snoddy praises an ethnographic study into what people actually do with PVRs. There are caveats, but he believes this “has punctured futuristic nonsense with observation, facts and sound judgement”… There are few greater pleasures than coming across a piece of research that confirms all your own instincts and at the same time… Continue reading PVRs will NOT spell the death of advertising funded television?

Recommendations by personal acquaintances and opinions posted by consumers online are the most trusted forms of advertising globally, according to the latest Nielsen Global Online Consumer Survey. The Nielsen survey, of over 25,000 internet consumers from 50 countries, shows that nine in every ten internet consumers worldwide (90%) trust recommendations from people they know, while… Continue reading New research reveals most trusted forms of online advertising

TalkTalk has become the second internet service provider to drop targeted ad service Phorm this week.The loss of two of its key partners, which just leaves Virgin Media as a potential triallist of its controversial tracking technology Webwise, has seen Phorm’s shares plummet by more than 50%.Phorm released a statement announcing TalkTalk’s decision to terminate… Continue reading TalkTalk ends agreement with Phorm

Michael Jackson’s death continued to dominate the media world last night – the coverage of his star-studded memorial service in LA pulled in more than 6 million terrestrial viewers in the UK alone.BBC Two’s Michael Jackson’s Memorial Live, which was broadcast in place of its usual line-up of early evening shows including Eggheads and Bargain… Continue reading Overnights: Michael Jackson’s memorial watched by over 8 million

BBC One’s new five-part Torchwood – Children of Earth programme, which is due to air every night this week, started on a high last night with more than 6 million peak viewers.The sci-fi drama, a Doctor Who spin-off starring John Barrowman, pulled in 5.9 million average viewers and a 25.8% audience share during the all-important… Continue reading Overnights: New Torchwood starts on a high

The Susan Boyle inspired ratings success of Britain’s Got Talent (see 18.5m watch Britain’s Got Talent results show), wasn’t enough to arrest ITV’s continued downturn in revenue. Despite the programme attaining ratings of over 11 million viewers from the initial audition stage, the commercial network broadcaster recorded a 16.7% year on year fall in revenue… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – May 2009