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Top Up TV has announced details of a new service with a digital video recorder, which allows recording of programmes that are downloaded overnight as well as regular Freeview channels.The service has launched in part because Five are taking two of Top Up TV’s live daytime and evening channel streams to launch Five US and… Continue reading Top Up TV To Begin Anytime Recording Service

BT has named BBC1, ITV1 Channel 4 and E4 as partners for its TV to mobile service BT Movio, which launches next month.The service is broadcast using the digital audio broadcasting (DAB) network and is navigated through the world’s first implementation of a DAB delivered EPG on a mobile TV phone.Virgin Mobile will be the… Continue reading BT Announces Partners For Mobile TV Service

Youngsters should be protected from exploitative marketing techniques used on the internet, as well as from television advertising, as part of an all out bid to halt the rise in childhood obesity, according to the public health think tank, the International Obesity TaskForce (IOTF).The IOTF said that an internationally enforceable code was needed to give… Continue reading Proposal To Ban Internet Junk Food Ads

A new UK based online TV channel is to launch later this month, featuring professionally produced news, features and sports content which will be available both online and via mobile.YourKindaTV has already been tested on a trial audience, which has grown to around 10,000 users. The channel is moving towards a consumer launch with a… Continue reading New Web TV Company To Launch

Advertising spend on mobile phones is expected to increase massively over the next five years, creating a global market worth more than $11.3 billion annually, according to a new report from Informa Telecoms and Media.Informa forecasts that the mobile advertising market will be worth $871 million this year, a figure it expects to reach $1.5… Continue reading Mobile Ad Market To Reach $11 Billion By 2011

Free morning paper the Metro is to launch in Brighton on Monday, meaning that the title is now available in 15 UK cities.The paper will be distributed on buses and at rail stations including Hove, Worthing and Lewes, and will carry the same content as the London edition.The paper, developed in partnership with Medialab, a… Continue reading Metro Launches Monday In Brighton

Advertising spend on mobile phones is expected to increase massively over the next five years, creating a global market worth more than $11.3 billion annually, according to a new report from Informa Telecoms and Media. Informa forecasts that the mobile advertising market will be worth $871 million this year, a figure it expects to reach… Continue reading Mobile Ad Market To Reach $11 Billion By 2011

Vicaom chief executive Tom Freston has resigned from the company after falling out with the company’s chairman, Sumner Redstone over the battle to keep the company at the head of the digital revolution. Redstone was apparently unhappy that Viacom had missed several opportunities to become major players in the online market, missing out on buying… Continue reading Viacom CEO Tom Freston Resigns

TNS, the world’s largest provider of custom research and analysis, has recorded revenue growth of 4.5% year on year for the six months to June 30. The cmopany made an operating profit of £37.6 million, down from £41.4 million for the same period last year, whilst its profit before tax was £30 million, down from… Continue reading TNS Records 4.5% Revenue Growth In H1

WPP has announced a strategic partnership with Big Idea Group (BIG) to help clients find, develop and monetise open source innovations through BIG’s networks of independent innovators worldwide. BIG is one of the world’s largest inventor networks, with more than 10,000 members. BIG’s clients operate principally in consumer packaged goods, food and beverages, personal media… Continue reading WPP Announces BIG Strategic Partnership