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Emap has reportedly approached Future chief executive, Stevie Spring, about its vacant chief executive role.Reports in the trade press have said that Emap is building a shortlist of candidates, being put together by headhunters Zygos, to succeed Tom Moloney, who stepped down last month (see Emap Chief Executive Quits).Before joining Future in June last year… Continue reading Spring Could Be New Emap Chief Exec

Future has announced a pre-tax profit of £8.6 million for the six months to March 31 2007, with first half revenues from continuing operations at £95.3 million, a decline of 11% from a year earlier. The magazine publisher’s revenues from online advertising were up 66% year-on-year, whilst its customer publishing revenues grew 59%. The company… Continue reading Pre-Tax Profit For Future

Alison Reay, the Titan Outdoor joint managing director, is to leave the company after 14 months.Reay joined Titan last March along with ex-Viacom Outdoor sales director Andy Moug. Reay is the latest of several employees to leave the outdoor firm following the departures of sales director Steve Atkinson and development director Helen Bouchez, amongst others.Reay… Continue reading Reay Leaves Titan Outdoor

Emap’s Magic 105.4 has signed an exclusive sponsorship deal with VUE cinemas to launch the station’s new on-air quiz, Trivia Triumph.Trivia Triumph, which launches on 18 June, is the brand new weekday competition on Magic, running between 7am – 4pm.Listeners will go head to head to answer three questions every hour. The winner will win… Continue reading Magic Signs VUE Cinema Quiz Deal

GCap Media’s Classic FM has secured an important joint venture in a 20-week £1 million deal with Ford Galaxy.The campaign sees the launch of a brand new 20-week programme in partnership with Ford, Ford Galaxy of Stories, to run every Sunday afternoon from 4-5pm from 17 June 2007.For the series, Classic FM is re-writing classic… Continue reading Classic FM Secures Massive Multi-Media Campaign

Simon Cowell’s new reality talent show on ITV1, Britain’s Got Talent, wiped the floor with Channel 4’s Big Brother and BBC One’s New Tricks last night with an average adult audience of more than 6.2 million.The new programme, which runs for a week, debuted on Saturday night with 4.2 million adult viewers on average (21.4%)… Continue reading Big Brother’s Viewing Figures Drop To Series Low

With the consumption of media increasingly shifting to new platforms, Claudine Collins, managing partner and head of press at MediaCom, examines how initiatives like the ABC’s Group Product Report are an important step in media measurement…Our consumption of media is most definitely on the rise. Mobile technology has made it possible to download our favourite… Continue reading No Better Time For Publishers To Parade Their Wares

The term “bebo” has become the number one search term based on volume of UK internet searches, overtaking “eBay”, which has held the spot for all but one week in the past two years, according to new research from Hitwise.The online intelligence service said that except for one week in September 2006, the term “eBay”… Continue reading Bebo Becomes Most Searched For Brand In UK

IPC Media continues to focus on developing its digital strategy with the appointment of Nick Bradley as the company’s new director of digital advertising.The new role encompasses the development and implementation of an integrated digital advertising strategy across the company, working alongside the existing divisional digital ad directors to unlock the audience strength of IPC’s… Continue reading IPC Continues Digital Focus With New Appointment

New research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has revealed that 53% of all US households now subscribe to a broadband high-speed internet service at home. LRG says that broadband services now account for about 72% of all home internet subscriptions – compared to 60% last year. The research group adds that 68% of all households… Continue reading Over Half Of US Households Subscribe To Broadband