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Thomson Intermedia plc, a leading provider of media intelligence, has signed a partnership agreement with WPP’s GroupM, the world’s leading media agency group which controls more than 25% of the UK’s media spend.The partnership will see GroupM and its agencies, including Mindshare, Mediacom and Mediaedge: CIA, use the enhanced and tailored Thomson Intermedia services and… Continue reading Thomson Intermedia Boosts Media Profile With GroupM

Internet users from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK are more likely to use their mobile phones to go online than internet users in the US, according to the inaugural findings from comScore Networks’ Mobile Tracking Study. The study, which is designed to analyse how consumers across six countries go online on their mobile… Continue reading Europeans More Likely Than Americans To Go Online Via Mobiles

The makers of VOIP giant Skype are set to announce a new project aimed at distributing television and video over the internet.“The Venice Project”, which claims to combine the best things about TV with the social power of the web, is said to be announced at a television conference in New York by Fredrik de… Continue reading Skype Creators Develop New TV And Video Over Internet Project

Non-voice services will account, on average, for 13.3% of total service revenues for US mobile operators in 2006 and this is set to grow to 24.5% by 2011, according to a new report from Analysys. The US Mobile Market: Trends and Forecasts 2006-11 report says that the biggest driver of this growth is entertainment services,… Continue reading Entertainment To Drive US Mobile Data Revenues

Mobile phone operator O2 has announced that it is to offer a broadband service starting from spring 2007.According to reports in the trade press, O2 has begun talks with BT and Cable & Wireless about the offering but as yet no deal has been brokered.The reports quote CEO Peter Erskine as denying that the company… Continue reading O2 To Offer Broadband Service Next Year

September saw viewing shares fall year on year across most terrestrial channels, with ITV1 and Channel Four both seeing dips of over 1.5 percentage points.In digital homes, BBC channels fared well while ITV1 and Channel Four both saw dips in share, whilst Five and Multichannel viewing remained static.All ViewingITV1 saw its viewing share fall year… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – September 2006

ITV shareholders are urging the company to appoint a new chief executive by Christmas, according to a report in the Guardian.The shareholders are apparently unhappy at the slow progress of the search for a replacement for Charles Allen.The report says that headhunters Zygos have widened their search for a new CEO to include continental Europe… Continue reading ITV Shareholders Want New CEO By Christmas

Owners of Smooth FM, Guardian Media Group, have applied to communications regulator Ofcom requesting a change in the format of the station.The station wishes to covert from its current focus of jazz, soul, blues and R’n’B to an easy-listening station for the over-50s, with GMG promising to retain the 45 hours of specialist jazz programmes… Continue reading Smooth FM Applies For Format Change

Google recorded a revenue increase of 70% for the third quarter, to $2.69 billion, and nearly doubled its profits to $733 million. Google-owned sites generated revenues of $1.63 billion, or 60% of total revenues, in the third quarter of 2006. This represents an 84% increase over third quarter 2005 revenues of $885 million and a… Continue reading Google Revenues Grow 70%

Affluent working women in the US with family incomes of $75,000 or more are growing in number and 94.3% access the internet during an average month, according to new research from The Media Audit. From 2004 to 2005 the percentage of affluent working women making five or more purchases on the internet increased from 54.1%… Continue reading Affluent US Women Increase Internet Purchases