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ITN has appointed John Hardie, a senior executive at Disney and former ITV commercial director, as its new chief executive.Hardie is expected to take up his role with ITN in June, after he leaves Disney, where he has been executive vice-president and managing director across Europe, Middle East and Africa for eight years.Prior to that,… Continue reading ITN appoints ex-ITV director as chief exec

WPP’s chief Sir Martin Sorrell predicts an L-shaped, or prolonged, recession until 2010.Speaking to the Stationers’ and Newspaper Makers’ Company in the City last night, Sorrell said: “The first half of 2009 will be very tough, and the second half relatively better … relative to the first half.”Economists define an “L-shaped” recession as protracted periods… Continue reading Sorrell predicts L-shaped recession until 2010

Phorm, the behavioural targeting company at the centre of a recent row over privacy, has hit out at Google’s Latitude mobile service, accusing the firm of “adding yet more personal data to the extensive user information it collects”.Latitude, which lets mobile users allow people on their Gmail contact list to track where they are, was… Continue reading Phorm airs privacy fears over Google’s Latitude

Virgin Media TV is set to close its pay-TV channel Trouble within the next few months in a bid to start off-loading its content business.The broadcaster’s parent company Virgin Media will close the teenage-oriented channel, which is well-known for shows such as Veronica Mars and Kyle XY, and launch a new version of Living in… Continue reading Virgin is set to close Trouble and launch new Living channel

BBC One’s spectacular Comic Relief 2009 pulled in more than 12.7 million peak viewers on Friday evening.The fund-raising extravaganza, presented by Davina McCall and David Tennant, attracted more than 10.3 million average viewers and an impressive 42.7% share between 7pm and 10pm on Friday.The charity special switched to BBC Two for a short break for… Continue reading Comic Relief dominates the weekend ratings

Google’s first tentative steps into behavioural targeted advertising have met with a pretty warm reception, particularly as it has attempted to steer clear of the privacy issues that have dogged companies such as Phorm.Google’s system tracks users via a cookie related to only one browser, so the system does not track email or documents which… Continue reading Google’s first steps into behavioural targeted ads

Total UK adspend fell by 3.9% in 2008, with spend in Q4 2008 down 9.6% year on year, according to new research from the World Advertising Research Center (WARC) on behalf of the Advertising Association.Newspaper spending was down 12% in 2008, with magazines also suffering, down 9.9% for the full year.Newspapers grabbed a 25% share… Continue reading Total UK adspend down 3.9% in 2008

Four of the main five terrestrial channels suffered dips in viewing share in February, with BBC Two managing a slight year on year rise of 0.1 percentage point.All ViewingBBC One’s viewing share has fallen to 21.8% following a year on year fall of 0.6 percentage points, while ITV1’s has dropped to 18.7% after a fall… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – February 2009

Andrew Freeman, senior consultant, media research at Harris Interactive, looks at why DAB has failed to keep up with the digital revolution…

US advertising revenue fell by around 2.6% between 2007 and 2008, according to the latest figures from Nielsen.The report for the full year of 2008 shows that Cable TV and Hispanic Cable TV were the only sectors to show ad growth, while overall expenditure declined around $3.7 billion to a total of $136.8 billion last… Continue reading US advertisers cut ad spend during 2008