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Kangaroo, the proposed video-on-demand player from BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, has been referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading.In a statement released today, the OFT said that having referred the matter to the Competition Commission, the CC “now has 24 weeks to consider the issues, and collect better evidence… Continue reading Kangaroo Referred To Competition Commission

Companies can significantly increase the effectiveness of their customer magazines by altering frequency, pagination and distribution methods, according to a new study from Royal Mail.To continue its support of the customer publishing industry, Royal Mail has worked with Association of Publishing Agencies (APA) and Millward Brown to analyse the impact of these three key variables… Continue reading New Research Looks At Increasing Customer Magazine Success

Tim Davie, director of the BBC’s marketing, communications and audiences division, is to take over from Jenny Abramsky as director of audio and music at the corporation.In his new role, Davie will oversee BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Live and the BBC digital radio stations 1Xtra, 6 Music, BBC 7, 5 Live Sports… Continue reading Tim Davie To Take Over From Abramsky

Lawson Muncaster, managing director of morning business freesheet City AM has been confirmed as a panellist at MediaTel Group’s ‘Future of National Newspapers’ seminar, which takes place on July 1 in Westminster.Muncaster joins fellow panellists Rich Mead, assistant managing director of Metro Newspapers, Alex DeGroote, analyst at Panmure Gordon, Dominic Williams from Carat and Dominic… Continue reading City AM MD Confirmed For ‘Future of National Newspapers’ Seminar

An online poll to decide the first ever track to be played on NME Radio saw 3.5million votes cast via NME.COM.The Muse song ‘Knights of Cydonia’ topped the poll to launch the station, kicking off the Claire Sturgess show at 11am.NME publishing director Paul Cheal said: “By casting of millions of votes, NME.COM’s users have… Continue reading Online Poll Winner Marks Launch Of NME Radio

Companies can significantly increase the effectiveness of their customer magazines by altering frequency, pagination and distribution methods, according to a new study from Royal Mail. To continue its support of the customer publishing industry, Royal Mail has worked with Association of Publishing Agencies (APA) and Millward Brown to analyse the impact of these three key… Continue reading New Research Looks At Increasing Customer Magazine Success

The Sunday Times is due to launch its new full-colour version on July 6, with a redesign across all sections of the paper excluding the Sunday Times magazine and the Culture magazine.It will feature a new masthead, new font and updated slogan – “The Sunday Times is my Sunday papers” to replace “The Sunday Times… Continue reading Sunday Times Set For Full-Colour Relaunch

A new report from eMarketer estimates that 60.5% of the UK population, or 36.8 million people, went online at least once per month in 2007. Of those, 30% – 11 million people – visited social network sites at least once per month. “The strong growth is an indicator of the level of interest consumers have… Continue reading 11m People In The UK Visited Social Network Sites In 2007

The BBC has unveiled a new-look iPlayer which fully integrates radio and TV in one interface.The new-look service launches in beta today and will run alongside the existing iPlayer for the next few weeks.It allows audiences to choose to either listen again to BBC Radio from the last seven days, or listen live – while… Continue reading BBC Launches New-Look iPlayer

New figures released by comScore show that 27 million people in the UK watched more than 3.5 billion videos online in March this year.YouTube accounted for nearly half of all videos viewed online and 99% of the videos watched on Google sites, which topped the table as the most popular site to access online videos.Google… Continue reading 3.5 Billion Videos Viewed Online In March