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ITV1’s new Wednesday evening line-up proved to be a hit last night with Midsomer Murders attracting a high of 6.2 million viewers during the prime-time slot.The first of two new cases for detective DCI Tom Barnaby, played by John Nettles, pulled in more than six million average viewers and a 27.5% audience share between 8pm… Continue reading Overnights: Midsomer Murders returns with 6.2m viewers

Certain groups of internet downloaders make a particularly attractive target for advertisers, reveals the latest data from TGI.Latest TGI data show that 77% of British people aged 15+ use the internet, up from 75% last year. The most popular online activities are email, general research, and banking or personal finance. The data also shows that… Continue reading TGI: Online activities (downloading content)

Mail Online has raced ahead of its rivals to become the most popular national newspaper website over the month of June.According to data just released by ABCe, the Associated News site attracted nearly 5 million extra unique users from May. This has pushed Mail Online to the top spot for the first time in 13… Continue reading ABCe June 2009: Mail Online races ahead of rivals

Simon Mukerjee, managing director at DWA Business, comments on Ray Snoddy’s Will the pay model really work for newspapers online…? article, which was published on Tuesday… “I think it is even more stark than suggested. I simply cannot see anyone paying for anything other than very specialised content. And even then, how much they are prepared… Continue reading Point of View – ‘Will the pay model really work for newspapers online…?’

Independent News & Media has sold its 18% stake in Cashcade for £13.2 million to digital group PartyGaming.The struggling newspaper group will receive €15.3 million for the gambling group, which owns gaming brands such as Foxy Bingo, as well as “incremental proceeds” over the next two years as long as earnings targets are met.PartyGaming’s deal… Continue reading INM offloads Cashcade asset

Arqiva is understood to be in discussions to buy the technology behind Project Kangaroo, the failed broadband TV venture between BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV.The broadcast transmission company was up against Orange as the only serious contenders to buy the technology, however, Orange pulled out of the process in May.As a result, talks with… Continue reading Arqiva set to buy Kangaroo technology

Daily Mail & General Trust’s revenues from its consumer media operations were down 19% year on year in the second quarter, to £303 million. Total underlying revenues at Associated Newspapers fell by 12% to £206 million underlying circulation revenues were 7% lower year on year. advertising revenues in Q2 fell by 15%. Within this figure,… Continue reading DMGT’s consumer revenues fall 19%

A new report forecasts that US marketers will spend $65 billion on their own websites this year. The Outsell Inc report, based on an online survey in April of more than 1,200 advertisers, revealed that this figure will be nearly as much as marketers’ spend on TV advertising. It found that US marketers will spend… Continue reading Marketers predicted to spend $65bn on websites this year

A new US report has found that almost 20% of social networking sites’ advertising comes from local businesses and marketers. The Borrell Associates assessment of 118 social networking sites forecasts that $641 million will be spent on local ad sales in 2009. A key finding of the report is that the majority of local ad… Continue reading US social network local-ad sales to hit $641m

Yellow Pages directory site Yell.com has signed a deal with Videojug to provide “how to” videos and a blog network.The online business directory has added the new features in a bid to turn the Yellow Pages service into a multimedia content company, according to reports.Videojug, the creator of around 50,000 video clips, will provide online… Continue reading Yell.com adds new video network