UK inflation has risen higher than expected, according to the latest figures from the Office Of National Statistics (ONS), which show that the underlying rate of inflation increased by 0.5% last month to 2%.According to the ONS, the rise, which casts doubt over the need for another interest rate cut, could be due to price… Continue reading UK Inflation Shows Unexpected Rise
US advertising spend for first half of 2002 rose by 2.3% year on year, according to new preliminary figures released by Nielsen Monitor-Plus. Despite an expected upturn in internet advertising, the sector saw an 8.4% slide during the first half, with only syndicated television performing worse. National magazine spend dropped slightly, by 1.0%. It was… Continue reading US Adspend Up 2.3% In H1, According To Nielsen Figures
The number of UK internet users with broadband access has increased by 60% in the last six months, according to new survey from NOP. Approximately 8% of web users in Britain currently subscribe to broadband services and this figure is expected to rise to 15% by August 2003. This complements a recent report by Continental… Continue reading Britons Latching Onto The Benefits Of Broadband
Multimedia messaging (MMS) has been overhyped and analysts need to be more realistic in making revenue predictions, says a new report from the Wireless World Forum (W2F). MMS represents the next generation of mobile messaging and involves the transfer of text, sounds, images and video between handsets. Some industry observers have forecasted that annual revenues… Continue reading Potential Impact Of MMS Has Been Overstated, Says Report
Almost 10% of the worldÂ’s population now has access to the web according to a new report from Nua Internet Surveys. Based on data collected from a variety of sources, Nua estimates that the global internet audience had increased to 580.78 million users by the end of May 2002. This represents an increase of 36.58… Continue reading One-Tenth of The Global Population Now Online, Says Report
Cable is to be the leading broadband internet platform in the US until 2005, at which point DSL (digital subscriber line) will just steal the lead, according to new forecasts from Park Associates. There will be 40.9 million broadband households in the US by 2005, according to the projections; 17.2 million of these will be… Continue reading DSL To Lead US Mass Adoption Of Broadband
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken steps to boost the widespread adoption of digital television (DTV) in the country by requiring that new TV sets have a digital tuner built in to them. The FCC has imposed a deadline on electronics manufacturers to include the receivers in new sets by 2007 at the… Continue reading FCC Imposes Deadlines For DTV Sets
Week on week analysis shows that the best performance in last week’s media market came from BSkyB, which recently announced that it gained 214,000 subscribers in Q4 last year, taking its total to 6.1 million (see Financial Results Released By Trinity And BSkyB). Shares rose 11.23% to close at £5.89˝, an increase of 59˝p on… Continue reading Sharewatch
GMG Radio is to apply for the new FM licences in the West Midlands and Glasgow using the recently acquired Jazz FM format (see Jazz FM Agrees To £44.5m Takeover By GMG).The new licences, due to be advertised early next year, will be among the last licences to be awarded by the radio Authority before… Continue reading GMG Bids For New Licences For Jazz FM
GWR’s sales house, Opus, is expanding is sales team with the appointment of former Emap and Teletext sales executive, Caroline Holmes.Holmes, who took up the new agency executive position earlier this month, is responsible for selling radio ad spots across The Mix network. Reporting to Opus agency group head, Paul Carolan, she handles a range… Continue reading Opus Adds New Agency Executive To The Mix
