Yahoo! UK and Ireland has restructured its sales division in an attempt to improve relations with media planning and buying agencies.The move combines two new appointments with a number of promotions and newly created internal roles to strengthen the sales team, which is separated into four divisions under the leadership of sales director, Alison Reay.The… Continue reading Yahoo! Restructures Sales Team With Greater Agency Focus
Month on month analysis of the latest ABC circulation figures for June reveals a mixed picture of the national newspaper market, which saw overall circulation slip by 0.2%, as the so-called summer silly season kicked in.The majority of titles saw circulation decline with the notable exception of the Sunday Times, which experienced a solid month… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up – June 2003
Kevin Lygo, Five’s outgoing director of programmes, has made his final move to distance the channel from its downmarket image and is to drop all remaining softcore pornographic content from the schedules before he steps down at the end of the month.Lygo, who is set replace Tim Gardam as director of television at Channel 4… Continue reading Lygo Strips Channel Five Of All Adult Content
Advertising and marketing conditions in the second quarter are shaping up to be similar to Q1, with positive trends in the US whilst elsewhere remains mixed and quite weak, according to analysts at Merrill Lynch. Indications are of an upward momentum, with improved trading at the media companies likely to be followed by a similar… Continue reading MediaTel Insight: Merrill Lynch Tweaks Advertising Forecasts
Advertising and marketing conditions in the second quarter are shaping up to be similar to Q1, with positive trends in the US whilst elsewhere remains mixed and quite weak, according to analysts at Merrill Lynch. Indications are of an upward momentum, with improved trading at the media companies likely to be followed by a similar… Continue reading Merrill Lynch Tweaks Advertising Forecasts
The online music sector will experience only limited growth in the near future, due to the lack of co-operation between broadband service providers (BSPs) and the recording industry, according to a new report. A survey by Jupiter Research has found that 43% of consumers are still not convinced of the need to pay for internet… Continue reading Music Industry Must Embrace The Net, Says Study
Current pricing plans for multimedia messaging services (MMS) could cannabilise revenues from the popular SMS text messaging sector, leaving mobile operators in the lurch in the short-term. This is according to analyst and consulting company Ovum, which says that if operators do not revise their pricing strategies they face a potential revenue ‘time bomb’. According… Continue reading Mobile Operators Could Cannabilise Their Own Revenues, Warns Ovum
Total US magazine advertising revenues rose by 8.5% in June, to close at $1.6 billion, according to new figures from the Publishers Information Bureau (PIB). However, the number of advertising pages fell by 3.2% year on year to 18,834 due to the uncertain economic environment. In the year to date, advertising revenue closed at $8.6… Continue reading US Magazine Revenue Grows But Volumes Down In June
BT has revealed an increase in the demand for high-speed internet access across the UK, which will help to speed-up its drive to bring broadband to 90% of homes and businesses. The telecoms giant is to introduce 56 new exchanges into its broadband upgrade programme and plans to launch 500 new broadband exchanges over the… Continue reading BT Reveals Increasing Demand For Broadband
Developments in the European digital TV market are sparking demand for receivers and a new report from Datamonitor claims that shipments of adaptors are set to increase eightfold over the next four years. According to the study, Beyond the STB: new device and service opportunities, the device market is set to explode as new products… Continue reading 100 Million DTV Devices In Europe By 2007, Says Report
