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The latest estimate from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) suggests that the growth rate of the UK economy slowed slightly in the three months ending in August to 0.7% after 0.8% in the quarter ending in July. The NIESR expects to see a further slight deceleration in the rest of this… Continue reading UK Economic Growth Rate Slows Slightly

Last night saw the return of Who Do You Think You Are? on BBC One, with the family history show following newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky as she discovered more about her background.The enthralling episode did really well, picking up a peak audience of 6.5 million adults (a 32.1 share of the audience) in its 9pm timeslot.It… Continue reading Strong Return For Who Do You Think You Are?

BBC Radio 1 has revamped its schedule to give the station a stronger youth focus, employing Kelly Osbourne as a presenter and adding half an hour to Chris Moyles’s breakfast show.Under the altered timetable, Moyles show will start at 6.30am from October 15, whilst chart show presenters JK and Joel are no longer.Moyles, the self-proclaimed… Continue reading Radio 1 Revamps To Give Youth Focus

Daily Newspaper MarketAugust’s daily national newspaper ABCs show an overall year on year circulation downturn of 2.2%, with only the Financial Times bucking the trend by adding 2.5% to its circulation.In the Quality sector, the Times saw the greatest actual loss of sales at over 36,000 year on year for the month, whilst the Daily… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: August 2007

thelondonpaper remained ahead of the London Lite in August, although it suffered a month on month decline of just over 54,500 copies.Its total circulation now stands at around 495,900 copies, whilst the London Lite has a circulation of almost 406,300 after an increase of over 5,700 copies month on month.The evening paid-for title Evening Standard… Continue reading thelondonpaper Sees Circulation Decline In August

Associated Newspapers and Northcliffe Media, its sister company, have unveiled plans for major online investment.The digital agency Conchango has been asked to develop new ways of accessing news content through the publisher’s newspaper websites.The deal, believed to be worth £1 million, will see Conchango develop technology and applications using Microsoft Silverlight, a new rich internet… Continue reading Associated Plans Major Online Investment

The Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is to conduct a review of the imposed contract rights renewal (CRR) on ITV.The review, to be conducted in partnership with Ofcom, is scheduled for early next year.The OFT said that further information will be published “when the review commences”.ITV responded to the news in a… Continue reading OFT To Conduct Review Of CRR

Emap Advertising has announced a major new deal with Debenhams to sponsor the FHM2 supplement available with FHM‘s September issue.Debenhams is partnering with FHM2 – an integral bound in supplement, which explores and expands on a core value of FHM every month – to target its male audience with the aim of positioning itself as… Continue reading Emap Advertising Announces FHM2 Sponsorship Deal

Travel, communities and research websites receive the most click-throughs from search engines whilst research, travel destinations and government sites rely most on search for visitors, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. NetRatings said that in July 2007, Britons clicked on over 1.3 billion search results – equating to over 29,000 every single minute. The multi-category… Continue reading UK Search Engine Click-Throughs Revealed

The new TV ad campaign from eBay will use 10-second advertisements featuring a live-feed direct from the eBay auction website.The ads, which show real-time auction listing, are the first work produced by Albion since it won the account in July.The campaign breaks on September 9 and retains the eBay animated Logo people, although they have… Continue reading eBay To Launch Live Ads