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The biggest real term increase in the gaming and computer sector was enjoyed by Official Nintendo Magazine, which grew by almost 12,500 copies year on year, a percentage increase of nearly 35%, taking its total to more than 47,900.There was also a healthy rise for Future Publishing’s Xbox publications. Xbox World 360 went up by… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2007:Official Nintendo Magazine Records Largest Increase in Gaming Sector

Q Magazine remained king of the music titles, despite an almost 18% year on year drop in circulation, according to yesterday’s ABC consumer magazine concurrent release for the first six months of 2007.The Emap title shed almost 29,000 copies in real terms year on year to take its total to just under 130,200, well above… Continue reading ABC Results Jan-Jun 2007: Q Magazine Tops Music Sector Despite 18% Year On Year Circulation Drop

High profile ‘threequels’ have seen UK cinema admissions up almost 28.5% year on year in June to 11.2 million, according to the latest figures from the Cinema Advertising Association.Films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Shrek the Third, Ocean’s Thirteen and Spider-Man 3 have spurred the upturn.The third instalment in the Pirates… Continue reading ‘Threequels’ Boost Cinema Admissions To 11.2 Million For June

Bebo.com became the most visited social networking site from within the UK in July, attracting 10.6 million unique visitors, an increase of 63% over the start of the year, according to the latest figures from comScore.It was closely followed by social networking behemoth MySpace.com, which enjoyed a 25% increase in traffic over the same time… Continue reading Bebo Becomes Most Visited Social Networking Site In July

WPP has reported a 5.3% increase in like-for-like revenues for the six months to the end of June, helped by acquisitions in China and India and faster growth in the US. WPP posted a pre-tax profit of £338 million, a 6.9% on the same period last year. Its reported revenue rose 2% to £2.9 billion.… Continue reading WPP Revenues Increase 5.3%

Spending on search engine marketing in the UK is forecast to grow 58% this year to £2.2 billion, with almost £2 billion of that coming from paid search, according to a new report from E-consultancy. The study says that although the growth rate has fallen from 65% in 2006, it looks as if the market… Continue reading UK Search Engine Marketing To Grow

GCap’s share price dropped today following the release of the latest RAJAR listening figures, which revealed that in Q2 Capital Radio had its lowest ever share of the audience. At one point this morning, the company’s share price fell by 9% to 216p, from yesterday’s close of 237.5p. However, at 1.05pm, GCap’s price had rallied… Continue reading GCap Sees Share Price Fall After Poor RAJARs

More than 59 million Americans (37.3% of all active US internet users) visited newspaper websites on average during the second quarter of 2007, according to custom analysis provided by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). The NAA says that this is a record number representing a 7.7% increase over the same period a… Continue reading Over 59 Million Americans Visited Newspaper Websites In Q2

The latest RAJAR results for Q2 2007 show that BBC Radio 2 once again had the highest weekly reach of the national stations, of more than 13.1 million listeners, up almost 1.3% year on year.Radio 1 saw its reach rise by 4.3% year on year, taking it to almost 10.9 million listeners, whilst Radio 4… Continue reading Radio 2 Records Rise In Weekly Reach

The weekly reach of all commercial stations grew during Q2 2007, by over 2.6% period on period and more than 4.1% year on year for all demographic groups.The BBC recorded a period on period decline in weekly reach across all demographic groups of over 0.6%. However, it was up year on year by 1.2%.The only… Continue reading Commercial Radio Increases Reach Across All Demographic Groups