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Emerging markets are seeing increased potential in the television marketplace, with a new study from Informa Media claiming that there will be more than 93 million homes worldwide in the ’emerging TV’ category by the end of 2010. Informa predicts that Africa and the Middle East will account for 43.7 million of this total, followed… Continue reading Increasing Potential In Emerging TV Markets

The average internet user now spends the equivalent of 41 days online each year, compared to 37 days spent watching TV. According to research conducted by TNS and Google, the average British internet user now spends 164 minutes online each day for personal use, compared to 148 minutes spent watching TV. The increased usage has… Continue reading Consumers Spend More Time Online Than Watching TV

Mobile phone game revenues look set to increase in 2006, with M:Metrics saying the overall trend for downloading is encouraging. Despite a slight drop in the number of US subscribers paying a downloaded game in January, M:Metrics claims that the average price paid for one-off game downloads has been rising since September 2005. According to… Continue reading M:Metrics Optimistic For Mobile Downloading

Global advertising company, WPP, has acquired 65% of the issued share capital of Sapphire Bright Limited, extending its reach into China. Sapphire Bright, owns two of the leading promotional and merchandising companies in the People’s Republic of China; Shanghai Always Marketing Services and Shanghai Power Force Marketing Services. The deal will see clients including Unilever,… Continue reading WPP Continues To Develop Networks

Specialist magazine publisher, Future, has warned investors that the market remains challenging, with recent conditions holding back prospects for the current financial year to September 2006. Bearing this in mind, the board expects that profit for 2006 will suffer a decline of bewteen £4 and £5 million. This loss steams from a poor performance in… Continue reading Future Warns Challenging Market Will Continue

Total digital reception in UK households is at 64.2%, up by 10% from 54.4% at the beginning of 2004, according to the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s (IPA) latest Trends in Television Report. Non-terrestrial viewing remained at 30% for the second successive quarter, seeing a year on year increase of 2.5%. The strong bias of… Continue reading UK Digital Penetration At 65%

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) enjoyed strong growth in 2005, with new estimates from TeleGeography forecasting VoIP enabled lines to reach over 19 million by 2010 in the US. Total VoIP subscribers grew by a massive 284% year on year in the last quarter of 2005, reaching 4.5 million, compared to just 1.3 million for… Continue reading VoIP Lines To Hit 19 Million By 2010

Channel 4 has signed a landmark agreement with Twentieth Century Fox to acquire the rights to content for its family of channels, marking the largest deal of its kind for Fox in the UK, and securing content for FilmFour’s relaunch as a free-to-air channel.The new agreement will see Channel 4 air blockbuster titles such as… Continue reading Channel 4 Signs Largest Ever Fox Content Deal

BBC One’s slick drama series Hotel Babylon continued to perform well for the broadcaster last night, notching up an average adult audience of 5.1 million to see off ITV1’s similarly polished Footballers’ Wives.The sensationalist ITV drama drew an average adult audience of 3.7 million in the same time slot, with its share of 17.53% proving… Continue reading Hotel Babylon Floors Footballers Wives

Bjarne Thelin, chief executive officer of BARB, has revealed responses to its Future into View Consultation, saying the TV ratings body is committed to providing a clear and decisive method of measuring ratings in an increasingly fragmenting TV arena.Following the consultation in June (see BARB Launches Future Into View Consultation), BARB is looking into three… Continue reading BARB Reveals First Findings Of Future Into View Survey