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Media group, Archant, has announced a 7.5% increase in revenues for the first six months of 2005, reaching £99.2 million, compared to £92.3 million in 2004. Operating profit was shown to be £0.4 million lower at £17.5 million, while pre-tax profit was also down, by 19.5% year on year, at £13.3 million.The group’s magazine divisions,… Continue reading Archant Enjoys 7.5% Increase In Revenues For First Half Of 2005

Media watchdog, Ofcom, has cleared the proposed takeover of Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) by Emap, as long as the media group agrees to sell one of its two digital multiplex radio licences in Scotland.Ofcom found in its review of the deal that local digital multiplex ownership rules would be breached in three Emap multiplexes, Aberdeen,… Continue reading Emap Takeover Of SRH Cleared

UK Cinema has experienced the highest advertising revenue growth for the first half of 2005 out of all traditional display media, enjoying a 7.9% increase year on year.According to new figures from Nielsen Media Research, cinema adspend totalled £66 million in terms of revenue for the January to June period, with growth pushed predominantly by… Continue reading UK Cinema Adspend Beats Other Media

Regional newspaper group, Johnston Press, has successfully completed the acquisition of Emap’s newspaper operation, Score Press, for £155 million.The deal was conditional on Emap’s takeover of Scottish Radio Holdings, which was cleared by Ofcom yesterday, as long as the media group agrees to sell one of its two digital multiplex radio licences in Scotland (see… Continue reading Johnston Acquires Emap’s Score Press

Media group, Archant, has announced a 7.5% increase in revenues for the first six months of 2005, reaching £99.2 million, compared to £92.3 million in 2004. Operating profit was shown to be £0.4 million lower at £17.5 million, while pre-tax profit was also down, by 19.5% year on year, at £13.3 million. The group’s magazine… Continue reading Archant Enjoys 7.5% Increase In Revenues For First Half Of 2005

Online advertising expenditure is forecast to hit $18.9 billion by 2010, up 59% from $11.9 billion this year, according to the latest estimates from Jupiter Research. In its new report, US Advertising Forecast, 2005-2010, Jupiter projects spending on search to account for $7.5 billion by 2010, with marketers estimated to invest $4.5 billion on streaming… Continue reading Online Adspend To Hit $18.9 Billion By 2010

Broadband value added services for business users showed revenue growth of just over 60% during 2004, generating $3.7 billion by the end of the year, according to the latest estimates from Point-Topic. Value-added services are extremely important for service providers. As broadband tariffs become increasingly more competitive in price, value-added services are the most important… Continue reading Broadband Value-Added Services 60% Up In 2004

Hachette Filipacchi has appointed Nicole Mathers as advertising director of its new woman’s glossy magazine, Psychologies due to launch in September.Mathers joins Hachette from APC Publishing in Sydney were she worked as associate national advertising director for Madison magazine, a joint venture with Hearst International.The move will see her working on the UK version of… Continue reading Nicole Mathers New Advertising Director Of Psychologies

Daily Newspaper MarketThe majority of the nation’s daily newspapers turned in a poor performance in the six months Dec’04-May ’05, with just four titles managing to increase readership. As a whole, the daily newspaper market lost 5.0% readers year on yearQuality Daily TitlesThe Guardian continued to perform well, increasing its readership by a massive 18.4%… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: May 2005

July continued on from June’s theme of adspend revision, with Universal McCann’s Bob Coen, predicting total US adspend for 2005 to be up 5.7% year on year, reaching $278.7 billion, down from his previous estimate of 6.4% (see McCann Revises 2005 Adspend Estimates). Speaking to MediaTel INSIGHT, the senior vice president and director of forecasting… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Media Healthcheck – July 2005