Paul Kurzeja, formerly group art director of Future Network, has been poached by IPC to be the creative director of Wallpaper*.Kurzeja is said to enjoy a reputation in the magazine industry as the “designer’s designer” and has previously won four PPA and Total Publishing awards for art direction and design. He has also chaired seminars… Continue reading New Creative Director For Wallpaper
Dawn Airey is to take over from John Willis as chair of the executive committee of the GEITF from September this year. The Channel 5 chief executive is taking on Willis’ role as he is leaving to work at WGBH in Boston, USA.Airey, who last year delivered the Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture at the Festival… Continue reading Airey To Chair GEITF Executive Committee
Broad-based advertising improvements are beginning to filter through at ITV, with June’s revenue now expected to be up by 10%, well above previous forecasts. Analysts had previously expected the ad boost surrounding the World Cup competition to be mainly a blip, with the dip returning in Q3 2002 and recovery not really beginning to filter… Continue reading ITV Shows Beginning Of Sustained Ad Recovery With World Cup
The worst performance in yesterday’s media market came from troubled cable operator Telewest, which was shares fall 23.08% to close at 2˝p after a group of its bondholders rejected an offer for 20% of the company’s bonds.Regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press, which announced earlier in the week that advertising revenues rose by 2% in the… Continue reading Sharewatch
The printed press needs to reduce its dependency on advertising if it is to maintain its influence in the media marketplace, according to Publishing In The Knowledge Economy, Pira International’s new analysis of the publishing industry. The report, presented to the Department Of Trade and Industry (DTI) and UK Publishing Media (UKPM), acknowledges that advertising… Continue reading Publishers Directed To Meet Challenge Of New Media
The latest release of ABC figures for national newspapers showed that once again the circulation of tabloid newspapers slipped 2% year on year overall for the December-May period. Dwarfed in circulation by the Sun and the Mirror, but nevertheless bucking the trend, is Northern & Shell’s Daily Star. It might not make any claims to… Continue reading Feature: Star Shines As Tabloid Circulations Fall
The European online ad market is set for a significant recovery in the near future, according to Microsoft’s web portal, MSN. Executives of the internet company are confidently predicting a 25% growth in advertising in the next year across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). “We’ve reached the bottom,” said Judy Gibbons, vice-president of… Continue reading MSN Gears Up For Online Revival
Digital radio consortium MXR has partnered with Ford to launch a marketing initiative to drive the uptake of DAB digital radio in the UK.The deal will see a permanent fleet of four branded promotional vehicles roll out in each of MXR’s transmission regions. The vehicles will be fitted with the latest DAB digital radios and… Continue reading MXR Partners With Ford To Drive Digital Radio Uptake
The UK Government is hoping to achieve a 95% penetration of overall digital television (DTV) by 2010, at which point it plans to cease broadcasting the analogue signal. Indeed, the intention is to cease the analogue signal sometime between 2006 and 2010 at the latest. However, according to recent growth and forecasts, even a 2010… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Digital Struggles
The Newspaper Society (NS) has criticised the Government’s recently published draft Communications Bill (see In its submission to the Joint Select Committee on the Communications Bill, the NS claims that the latest media ownership policy, which proposes the abolition of prior consent and criminal sanctions, threatens to introduce new layers of plurality and competition controls.The… Continue reading Newspaper Society Criticises Draft Communications Bill
