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There has been a huge shift in consumer attitude towards the entertainment market, according to the latest reports from Verdict Research. In the 12 months to the end of 2008 Verdict predicts that the buoyant video games market will have grown by £1.37 billion – at a time when the combined music & video sectors… Continue reading Video games market overtakes music & video

Audience measurement was the focal point of discussions at the annual ASI European Radio Symposium event, taking place in Lisbon yesterday.Canada and Norway’s personal meter panel developments were explained, alongside the launch of a joint paper and online survey in the Netherlands.In Norway the result of using PPM as a trading currency has been phenomenal,… Continue reading ASI Conference 2008: Focus on audience measurement

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has appointed Jonathan Mew, former Orange head of marketing, as its first head of mobile.The IAB said that Mew has been enlisted to champion the medium and further educate advertisers and agencies on its potential.The hire comes a month after the IAB officially widened its remit to serve the mobile… Continue reading IAB UK appoints Jonathan Mew as first Head of Mobile

News International is set to re-launch its Sunday Times Magazine supplement with a new TV, press and outdoor advertising campaign.The re-launch, which follows on from the Sunday paper’s redesign earlier this year (see Sunday Times Set For Full-Colour Relaunch), will feature a revamped front cover, more features and investigations, a more image-focused contents page and… Continue reading Sunday Times Magazine relaunches with ad campaign

As REM’s “It’s the end of the world as we know it” begins to play, this year’s MRG conference gets underway and David Lucas and Keith Donaldson, joint chairs of the MRG, introduced the conference and summed up the organisation’s past two years of activityCommenting on the current economic slump and its effect on the… Continue reading MRG Conference 2008:Promotion of Research in the Media

ITV is integrating its online assets into its programming operations, under the direction of Peter Fincham, director of television, channels and online.The restructure will see all of ITV’s online assets – which include video streaming and ITV programming, ITV.com, ITV Local, project Kangaroo, Friends Reunited, as well as interactive and gaming – fully integrated with… Continue reading ITV integrates online and programming operations

Bauer has announced that it will be closing its national digital music station Mojo at the end of the month.The station, which was launched in 2003 as a spin-off from the music magazine, has an average of around 260,000 listeners per week according to the latest RAJAR release (see Year on Year Rise In Reach… Continue reading Bauer set to close digital music station Mojo

UK radio ad revenues were down about 13% year on year in October and November, according to a report.The Advanced Radio Revenue Indicator figures show that national radio ad revenue was down 16% year on year in October and predicts it will be down 17% in November, said a report in Media Week.Figures published by… Continue reading UK radio ad revenues down

ITV has announced a 5% fall in broadcasting revenue in the first nine months of 2008, to £1.2 billion.The broadcaster’s total revenue to the end of September was down 1% year on year to £1.47 billion.There was a 2.5% drop in net advertising revenue in the first nine months, compared with a 3.2% fall for… Continue reading ITV reports fall in broadcasting revenues

Google has terminated its search advertising deal with Yahoo! in order to avoid a “protracted legal battle” with regulators. The proposed deal would have seen Google ads displayed around Yahoo!’s search results. David Drummond, Google senior vice president, corporate development and chief legal officer, said: “After four months of review, including discussions of various possible… Continue reading Google ends Yahoo! ad deal