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Britain’s Got Talent stormed back onto the nation’s screens on Saturday night, with a strongman who pulled a car with his ear helping the show to pick up a peak audience of 11.4 million viewers for ITV1.On for an hour and a half from 7.30pm, the show had a peak share of 49.2% of the… Continue reading Strong return for Britain’s Got Talent

A new report from media analyst Screen Digest predicts that online advertising will fall 5% in 2009. Screen Digest’s 2009 report, based on the US IAB’s recently released full year report for 2008, said that while internet advertising grew 10% in 2008, the fourth quarter was almost flat at +2.6%, a significant change from the… Continue reading US online advertising forecast to fall 5% in 2009

Universal Music Group (UMG) is working with Google’s YouTube to launch a new music and video entertainment service featuring UMG’s premium video content.Called Vevo, the ad-supported service will launch later this year, with the technology infrastructure provided by YouTube.On YouTube, this content will be exclusively available through VEVO.com and a new VEVO channel through a… Continue reading Universal Music and YouTube to launch music video service Vevo

A new report from media analyst Screen Digest predicts that online advertising will fall 5% in 2009.Screen Digest’s 2009 report, based on the US IAB’s recently released full year report for 2008, said that while internet advertising grew 10% in 2008, the fourth quarter was almost flat at +2.6%, a significant change from the first… Continue reading US online advertising forecast to fall 5% in 2009

Steve Atkinson, group sales director at Clear Channel Outdoor UK, looks at how the world’s oldest medium is harnessing the power of mobile technology…

A portion of the BBC’s licence fee should go to the corporation’s rivals to allow them to create more public service content, such as current affairs and regional news programming, according to a parliamentary report.The House of Lords Communication Committee said that an element of “contestable funding” should be created for broadcasters and programme makers… Continue reading Parliamentary report calls on BBC licence fee split

Egmont Magazines has launched a new monthly magazine, Playhouse Disney, aimed at 2 to 4 year-olds.Launching this week with a cover price of £2.25, the magazine will have an initial print-run of 100,000 copies.Each issue of the magazine will have branded covermounts; the launch issue will include a giant My Friends Tigger and Pooh ‘Pop… Continue reading Egmont Magazines launches new Playhouse Disney title

Daily Newspaper MarketOverall, the daily newspaper market was down 3.6% year on year in March, although the Daily Star‘s circulation was up a very impressive 13.5%.There was a big year on year drop for the Independent, down by around 16.5%, with other daily titles also recording falls. National Newspaper ABC Figures – March 2009 Daily… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: March 2009

The latest ABC figures show that the Evening Standard‘s circulation dropped 1.3% year on year in March, leaving the evening paper with a total circulation of around 280,500.The afternoon freesheet thelondonpaper saw its distribution remain static year on year, at almost 600,000 copies, while rival title the London Lite was up 1.2% to around 400,500.Morning… Continue reading ABC London Newspaper Focus: Mar 2009

Richard Titus has been appointed as chief executive of Associated Newspapers’ digital division, AND.Titus was previously controller of future media at the BBC. He replaces Andy Hart who left AND last July. Before working at the BBC, Titus was at US web agency Schematic.AND operates the digital assets of Associated Newspapers and Northcliffe Media.Titus will… Continue reading Richard Titus named new CEO of Associated Newspapers’ digital division