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The Evening Standard continues to feel the effects of the London freesheets, dropping 3.4% of its circulation from October to November.The paper once again saw a fall in its total figure month on month, down almost 9,500 copies to leave it with a circulation of almost 272,500.Thelondonpaper appears to be winning the battle on the… Continue reading Evening Standard’s Circulation Slips As Freesheets Add Issues

National newspapers in the UK saw an almost 4% decline in circulation year on year for November, with all but one of the titles across the board seeing circulation figures fall.In the Quality sector, the Times felt a year on year slide of more than 37,500 copies, whilst the Daily Mail in the Mid-Market sector… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: November 2006

London Titles         Jan-07 Feb-07 Actual Change (Jan-Feb) % Change (Jan-Feb) Morning Papers                 City AM         82,672 95,053 12,381 15.0 Metro         548,007 542,844 -5,163 -0.9 Evening Papers                 Evening Standard… Continue reading thelondonpaper Pulls Away From London Lite

Ofcom has agreed to a format change for Smooth FM, after the station applied to the communications regulator to alter the format of the station from jazz and soul to an easy-listening station aimed at the over-50s in October (see Smooth FM Applies For Format Change).The revamped Smooth will replace its soul-based daytime music policy… Continue reading Smooth FM Format Change Gets Ofcom Go-Ahead

Vivendi’s chief financial officer has said that the company’s profit growth will slow next year as it integrates takeovers. Speaking at a UBS conference in New York, Jacques Espinasse said that Vivendi’s profit growth will slow next year from 16% this year. Espinasse said: “Don’t expect the growth in 2007 to be as fast as… Continue reading Vivendi Expects Profit Growth To Slow

Stevie Spring, chief executive at Future, has said that she has no intention of making any acquisitions and will instead focus on getting the business back on track. In an interview with the Times Spring said that she believed Future’s biggest problem was that it had been too acquisitive. Spring said: “With the acquisition of… Continue reading Future To Focus Less On Acquisitions

Total US internet ad spending is estimated to reach $16.4 billion this year, a 30.8% gain over last year’s $12.5 billion, according to a new report from eMarketer. EMarketer says that the prime engine behind such strong growth is Google, whose US online advertising revenues are expected to be more than $4 billion. Impressive results… Continue reading US Online Adspend Estimated To Grow This Year

Strong UK company profitability will act as the biggest boom to advertising spend in 2007, according to a new forecast from OPera Media. It adds that on-trend GDP growth will mean modest growth in display advertising expenditure, at 1.7% for 2007. Strong increases from the online search and classified sectors will see total advertising spend… Continue reading 2007 UK Advertising Spend Boosted By Online

Marketers in the UK expect online and digital marketing to be the area in which marketing spend will increase the fastest, according to the latest Chartered Institute of Marketing’s (CIM) Marketing Trends Survey.The survey shows that marketers are preparing to up their budgets in this area by 2.7%, with it being smaller companies who are… Continue reading UK Marketing Spend To Increase Fastest In Online And Digital

The European chairman of M&C Saatchi, Moray MacLennan, has been nominated by the IPA Council to succeed David Pattison of PHD Media as President of the IPA.MacLennan will be expected to serve a two-year tenure from April 2007 if elected at the Special Council Meeting after the IPA AGM on Wednesday 25 April 2007.The announcement… Continue reading Saatchi Europe Chairman To Become New President Of IPA