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The market’s fear of the internet, prevalent since the collapse of the dotcom ‘bubble’, may now be showing signs of waning, as the number of company closures begins to fall. The fall-out of the internet and technology markets over the last couple of years has led to the demise of a large number of companies,… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Is Investor Confidence In The Web Returning?

After much speculation over its future, Attic Futura is set to be bought by the French media group, Hachette Filipacchi for around £40 million.The UK publisher was put up for sale last year by its Australian owners, PMP. However, the German company, H Bauer soon pulled out of the bidding and a proposed £55 million… Continue reading Attic Futura Set To Go Continental

By 2006, Germany will have overtaken the UK to become Europe’s most profitable digital pay-TV market, according to business information company, Datamonitor. The UK market was rated the most valuable in Europe last year, bringing in $3.5 billion in revenues. By contrast, the preponderance of free to air channels and licence free public funded channels… Continue reading Germany Set To Take Digital Crown

Complaints about unwanted text messages have “soared” over the last year, according to The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (Icstis).The industry regulator, which monitors premium rate calls and text messages, has received over 150 complaints in the last nine months about reverse billing, which occurs when users reply to… Continue reading Complaints About Unsolicited Text Messages Soar

Channel 4 is folding its film production arm FilmFour LTD back into its parent company with the loss of up to 60 jobs.The move will see the closure of FilmFour’s UK distribution and international sales arm and the reintegration of its production division back into the core Channel 4 business. Commenting on the decision, Channel… Continue reading Channel 4 Calls Time On Film Production Arm

Big Brother achieved its highest ratings ever, excluding finals, with last week’s eviction show, as 6 million viewers, or 27% of the available audience tuned in to see the evictee announced at 8.30pm and an average 7.1 million switched on at 10pm to see Adele leave the house.The audience for the later show peaked at… Continue reading Big Brother Ratings Highest Outside Of Finals

Pace Micro Technology, the set-top box manufacturer, announced today that profits had fallen 70% year on year, reflecting a lack of growth in the digital TV market. Pre-tax profits, before one-off costs, for the year to June totalled £13.1 million, down from £44.3 million for the same period last year. Similarly, sales dropped by a… Continue reading Falling Profits Force Pace To Take Action

Despite expectations of the beginning of a recovery in advertising market conditions in the second half of the year, the outlook still remains decidedly unclear. A US mid-year media conference last month heard key players talk about the bottom of the recession, rather than the beginning of a period of genuinely strong growth. This assessment… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Media Healthcheck – June 2002

Week on week analysis reveals that the best performance in last week’s media market came from Pearson, which has confirmed that its FT Business titles are to be retained within the organisation (see Pearson Opts To Keep FT Business). Shares rose 4.98% week on week to close at £6.85, an increase of 32˝p on the… Continue reading Sharewatch

Faster internet connections and lowering prices will not be enough to induce the widespread adoption of broadband services in the UK, says a new report from PPAinteractive. In the past month, BT, AOL and Telewest have all introduced new high-speed internet services and according to a recent report from Oftel (see Cheap UK Broadband Internet… Continue reading Broadband Providers Must Look Beyond Price, Says PPAi