UK cinema admissions saw a 20% year on year increase during May, thanks to the release of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones. Total admissions for the month were 14 million.Star Wars achieved the highest opening weekend of the year so far at the box office, taking £9m in its first weekend… Continue reading Star Wars Sends Cinema Admissions Sky-High
United Business Media (UBM) has indicated that overall trading and outlook remain similar to the position outlined at its AGM in May and at the full year results in March.UBM says its businesses are showing a ‘robust performance’ on a ‘challenging and uncertain trading environment’ which is putting continued pressure on revenues.In the market research… Continue reading Technology Ads Still Tough For UBM
More than 12 million people tuned into the BBC last Friday to watch England get knocked out of the World Cup finals.The match, which kicked off at 7.30am and saw England lose 2:1 to Brazil in the quarter finals on the tournament, saw viewing levels peak at 13.1 million midway through the second half of… Continue reading Over 12 Million Watch England’s World Cup Defeat On BBC1
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp may back out of a deal that would see it become the dominant pay-TV operator in Italy, according to a report in today’s Financial Times. News Corp is all set to acquire Italian pay-TV business Telepiù from Vivendi Universal and merge it into its own pay-TV operation Stream (see News Corp… Continue reading Murdoch May Ditch Italian Pay-TV Deal, Says FT
Despite expectations of the beginning of a recovery in advertising market conditions in the second half of the year, the outlook remains decidedly unclear, according to the Financial Times. The paper says that whilst a number of companies at the Mid-Year Media Review in the US have begun to talk about an improvement in the… Continue reading Advertising Outlook Remains Unclear
IPC Southbank has announced that Louise Chunn, currently deputy editor of In Style will move up to the position of editor, following the departure of launch editor Dee Nolan last month (see Promotions And Appointments After One Year In Style).Chunn has also been with the magazine since its launch early last year. Her previous experience… Continue reading Insider Promotion For In Style Editorship
The gaming market is set to enjoy its best year ever, with three 128-bit consoles launched in all major markets and with software sales to increase, according to The Dynamics of Games: A Global Boom Industry, a new forward-looking report from Informa Media Group. The report also shows that online, mobile and interactive TV (iTV)… Continue reading Web, Mobiles And iTV Move Into Fast-Growing Gaming Market
Week on week analysis of the media market shows that the best performance came from Independent, which said recently that it is ‘cautiously optimistic’ that 2002’s results will show an improvement on those achieved during the past year (see Advertising Shows More Consistency, Says Independent). Shares rose 2.71% week on week to close at £1.32˝,… Continue reading Sharewatch
Cable TV subscriptions in the UK declined by 2.0% to 3.5 million homes in Q2 2002, according to the latest figures from the Independent Television Commission (ITC). In Q2 2001 the number of homes taking cable TV stood at 3.6 million; in Q1 2002 the figure was also 3.6 million. The drop in Q2 was… Continue reading UK Cable TV Subs Drop As NTL Struggles With Debt
Mobile marketing company Flytxt is launching a national SMS advertising campaign to promote FilmFour’s latest cinema release.The campaign, which launches this week, is designed to raise awareness of Nicole Kidman’s new comedy Birthday Girl. Mobile phone users will be offered the chance to win tickets to the premier of the film and those taking part… Continue reading Flytxt Takes Mobile Phones Users To The Movies
