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Doubleclick, the internet marketing solutions company has announced that quarter one figures have reached $68 million, up from $60.8 million for the same period last year. The group reported a growth across all product groups and this puts it well on-track to achieve record profits in 2004. Kevin Ryan, CEO said: “We saw significant year-over-year… Continue reading DoubleClick To Double Profits in 2004

Broadcasting giant ITV saw a good day’s trading on Friday with share price rising by 3.17% to 130p. Stocks may be hit later today, however, as shareholders are expected to vent their anger over a £15 million award to former ITV boss, Michael Green (see Green Relinquishes Roles As ITV Chairman Designate).Green was ousted as… Continue reading Sharewatch: ITV Rises Ahead Of Annual General Meeting

ITV’s Chairman, Sir Peter Burt, today announced that the group is continuing to perform satisfactorily and advertising revenues for April and May are expected to rise by 2.5%. A statement of the first ITV Annual General Meeting shows that ITV1 advertising revenues in quarter one 2004 remained unchanged from the same period last year. ITV2… Continue reading ITV Chairman ‘Satisfied’ At First AGM

UBC Media Group (UBC) today announced that total revenues have more than doubled year-on-year and are expected to be up by 60% from last year.The pre-close trading statement for the commercial radio broadcasting company and independent radio programme producer, said that the board was pleased that its ambitious plans for the business remain on track… Continue reading UBC Media Sees Revenue Boost Of 60%

Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP told the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) conference that the group’s results for ‘January, February and March were quite lively’, reports Reuters. He also told the 86th AAAA management conference that the softer business segments such as public relations and public affairs were showing ‘some signs of life’.… Continue reading Sorrell Reports First Quarter Results As ‘Quite Lively’

MTV has announced its intention to bring real music to customers’ mobiles with a one year partnership with mobile phone giant Motorola and music specialist Gulp Music.The deal will enable the broadcaster to sell the pieces of music performed by real pop stars, dubbed ‘mastertones’, through its websites. The ringtones will be licensed by Gulp… Continue reading MTV Mobile Deal Is Music To The Ears Of Consumers

The global advertising agencies are expected to report upbeat quarter one results says equity research group, Lehman Brothers. The report shows that Paris based, Publicis Groupe is expected to report the highest organic revenue growth of 4% but total revenues will decline by 7% to â‚Ź866 million. WPP and Havas are expected to see Q1… Continue reading Positive Quarter One Results For Global Ad Agencies

The Tindle Radio Group has become the latest broadcasting company to carry the Wireless Group’s Eurolink sports bulletins during the forthcoming Euro 2004 football championship in Portugal.The bulletins, already being syndicated to over 80 radio stations nationwide, will be produced by talkSPORT and distributed throughout the long-awaited tournament, which takes place between 12 June to… Continue reading Tindle Radio Signs For Eurolink Sport Bulletins

The digital cinema market could be worth more than $100 million a year to projector manufacturers by 2005 says a new report by Dodona Research. The report Digital Cinema Factbook says that in response to the emergence of industry standards and innovations it expects digital cinema screens to rise to over 5,000 worldwide by the… Continue reading Digital Cinema To Reach £100 Million A Year

ITV shareholders look set to express their outrage later today at three Carlton directors who authorised the controversial £15 million in payments to the broadcaster’s ousted chairman designate, Michael Green.Reports suggest that up to 40% of shareholders in the newly merged company could vote against the re-election of the directors who approved the package that… Continue reading Investor Backlash Could Force ITV Directors Out