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Online media heavyweight MSN has announced further growth in its UK Revenue Team, recruiting seven new members, to help drive digital marketing revenues throughout 2005.The sales team consists of 43 people in four teams; Agency Sales, Direct Client; Business Operations and Sales Strategy and Planning. The company expansion sees Kathryn Shannon join as Agency Sales… Continue reading MSN Restructures To Drive Digital Marketing Revenues

Video Networks Ltd, owners of broadband and digital TV providers HomeChoice, has announced that it is working with 7 Digital Media to launch the first ever television service enabling viewers to download music as they watch.The service will allow HomeChoice customers to buy tracks through their mobile phones as they watch them on Video Networks’… Continue reading HomeChoice To Launch TV Based Music Download Service

Satellite giant BSkyB has announced plans to launch its digital text service on Freeview, hoping to tempt potential subscribers away from the free-to-air system with a further demonstration of its own-brand satellite content services.Sky Text will be available in December to all digital terrestrial viewers and will add a further 3.7 million Freeview households to… Continue reading Sky To Launch Text Service On Freeview

The BBC has asked the government to extend its plans to review the progress of DAB digital radio for three years, saying that the digital radio market, industry and country are not yet ready for the digital switchover.Sales of digital radio sets are set to soar past one million units in Janurary, exceeded predictions earlier… Continue reading DAB Digital Radio Review Extended

The rising costs of fuel, coupled with increases in airfares, helped to push UK inflation to a five-month high during November, according to figures released today by the Office for National statistics.According to the ONS, the consumer prices index was up by 0.3% in November to 1.5 compared with 1.2 in October. Meanwhile the underlying… Continue reading Rising Fuel Costs Drive Inflation To Five-Month High

Newspaper giant Trinity Mirror contiues its upward trend, seeing a 4.8% rise in share price, to close at 666.5p on Wednesday. Despite a positive trading statement last week Trinity share prices have recently been going down, however, private equity group CVC Capital Partners is said to be analysing the company to see how much it… Continue reading Sharewatch: Trinity Mirror Continues Upward Trend

The US telecom giant Verizon Wireless has won the backing of its partner Vodaphone to put in a bid for its rival company Sprint. Sources close to the deal have said that Verizon has been studying a potential mobile deal for 18 months. The announcement comes just days after industry reports said that US wireless… Continue reading Vodaphone Says OK to Verizon Bid For Sprint

The Financial Times was one of the high-flying titles during September, adding a sizeable 29.7% to its readership year on year and notching up a total of just over 500,000 according to the latest NRS figures.The increase shows the paper performing well ahead of recent speculation that it is to undergo a revamp and engage… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up

Advertising expenditure in the UK totalled £3,610 million in the third quarter of 2004, according to the Advertising Association (AA), with cinema surprisingly being the fastest growing medium, increasing by 23.1%, despite declines in the first two quarters of 2004. However, results for this quarter excluded the Internet which is forecast to be the single… Continue reading Cinema Surprise Adspend Leader In Q3 2004

class=”article”>The UK’s children now have more choice of entertainment channels than ever before. Mel Alcock, executive director of commercial sales and development at kids channel Jetix, formerly Fox Kids, explains the challenges facing advertisers in reaching this lucrative demographic…The kids broadcast entertainment business has developed rapidly over the last few years. In the UK the… Continue reading NewsLine Column: Tackling Ad Angst As Kids TV Grows Up