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Women’s celebrity glossy Hello! has just launched a new digital edition, available online as soon as the print edition hits newsstands.A user friendly format, accessed through hellomagazine.com, replicates the print version, even allowing users to flick through its virtual pages.The digital mag also includes a search feature, enabling readers to track down a specific story… Continue reading Hello! Launches Digital Edition

Viacom in the US is set to become the first major TV/movie producer to sign a deal with Joost, the forthcoming television and video over the internet project from the founders of VOIP service Skype.The deal involves licensing hundreds of hours of programming from Viacom’s properties, like MTV, Comedy Central, Spike TV and Paramount Studios.… Continue reading Viacom To Strike Content Deal With Skype Founders

Graham Dene has been recruited by GMG Radio to front the breakfast show on its soon to be relaunched London station Smooth.Dene will be part of the new look Smooth as it changes format from a jazz and soul station to an easy-listening one aimed at the over-50s on March 26.There are however, rumours that… Continue reading GMG Radio Wants Dene For A Smooth Breakfast

BBC Staff, together with a group of MPs, have written a letter to the BBC Trust urging it to reject proposed advertising on its BBC.com international website.The letter, published today in national newspapers, was signed by 10 MPs and follows an Early Day Motion submitted by Labour MP Austin Mitchell.The MPs are concerned that hosting… Continue reading MPs And Staff Say No To BBC Web Ads

Sir Martin Sorrell, head of WPP, has said that those in charge of running media companies should make sure that they keep up with the shift in power taking place in the media industry.Sorrell, speaking yesterday at a Chrysalis event, said that media owners need to get their heads around the fact that profitability will… Continue reading Sorrell: Media Owners need To Keep Pace With Change

The increasing power of digital media and the new ways in which consumers use the media to communicate are central to the future of the industry, according to Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP. Sorrell, speaking to LBC’s Nick Ferrari at a Chrysalis event, said that a significant shift is taking place which will see… Continue reading Sorrell: New Media Central To Future Of Industry

Alex Burmaster, European internet analyst at Nielsen//NetRatings, examines Web 2.0 and its associated buzzwords, and the value of user-generated content in today’s social internet…In preparing for a recent seminar on Web 2.0 I noticed how interchangeably the phrases “Web 2.0”, “social networking” and “user generated content” were being used by the different participants. They seemed… Continue reading Social Internet or Web 2.0?

Jeff Smith, director of UK and international programming at Napster, has been named as the new head of music at Radio 2.He will take over from Colin Martin on March 26 this year, following the announcemt of Martin’s retirement in December 2006.Smith joined Napster in 2004 where he was responsible for sourcing all content and… Continue reading Radio 2 Names New Head Of Music

Sky will be launching the TV version of its Anytime package in March, allowing customers to watch a selection of the week’s best programming on-demand.Anytime on TV will be available to more than one million customers, making use of the additional capacity available on more recent Sky+ and Sky HD boxes.Launched next month, the service… Continue reading Sky Anytime Moves To TV In March

Cinema-goers are likely to be more receptive to advertising messages than those watching TV or surfing the internet, according to the Cinema Advertising Association’s latest research.The cinema body’s research study, FAME (Film Audience Measurement and Evaluation), which was rebranded from CAVIAR (Cinema and Video Industry Audience Research) last year (see Cinema Research Study Re-Brands), has… Continue reading Cinema Advertising Gives Greatest Cut-Through