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Jupiter Media Metrix yesterday forecast that revenues from paid online content will grow to $5.8 billion by 2006, up from $1.4 billion in 2002. According to Jupiter revenues for general content will rise from $700 million in 2001 to $2.3 billion in 2006 whilst revenues from online games and digital music will total $1.8 billion… Continue reading Online Future Will Mirror Cable TV, Says Jupiter

Future has secured its ongoing relationship with Microsoft by winning the contract to publish the only Windows publication to be officially licensed by the software manufacturers. The launch, Future’s biggest computer magazine for three years, will be backed with a £750,000 promotional spend, covering point-of-sale promotions, covermounts and packaging.The agreement for Future to produce Microsoft… Continue reading Future Wins Official XP Magazine Licence

According to Scarborough Research, mobile phone ownership in the US has grown by 29% over the past two years. Almost two thirds – 62% – of American adults now own a cell phone. In 1999, only 48% of US adults owned a cell phone and in 2000 the total had grown to 55%. Scarborough believes… Continue reading US Mobile Phone Growth Will Continue, Says Scarborough

In results released this morning, Ulster Television plc has revealed an increase in group operating profit to £13.6m, up from £13.4m last year, despite the prevailing conditions. Overall advertising revenue for the ITV network was down by 13.5% in 2001, UTV managed a drop of just 6.1% thanks, said the company, to stringent cost-control produced… Continue reading Ulster TV Emerges Relatively Unscathed From ITV Ad Slump

SMG Counts The Cost Of SRH InvestmentAccording to press reports this morning SMG is considering a £60 million write-down of its stake in Scottish Radio Holdings in response to pressure from its auditors.In a buoyancy market, between December 2000 and May 2001, SMG gradually increased it hold in SRH building a 29.5% stake at a… Continue reading SMG Counts The Cost Of SRH Investment

According to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal, positive signs are emerging for the ad industry with two Wall Street analysts reporting a likely upturn in the market. “We believe the US advertising recession is at its end,” said Leland Westerfield, media analyst at UBS Warburg in New York. “The cyclical recovery appears to… Continue reading US Analysts See Positive Signs In Market Outlook

JCDecaux Downbeat On Early 2002 OutlookJCDecaux has this morning released full year results for 2001 which revealed a 2.1% fall in profits and a downbeat outlook for Q1 2002.EBITDA was down 2.1% to E377.3 million whilst net profits were halved to E10.2 million from E20.4 million in 2001. This, said the group, was due to… Continue reading JCDecaux Downbeat On Early 2002 Outlook

US radio revenue rebounded in January according to the latest totals released by the Radio Advertising Bureau. National sales were up 2% when compared with January 2001 and local revenue increased by 1% year on year. The combined total for local and national spending also grew by 1% in year on year comparison. The announcement… Continue reading US Radio Rebounds In January

E-commerce and advertising businesses in the UK and Europe could be set to face high costs and a blow to competitiveness as European legislation on internet “cookies” looks set to go before committee tomorrow without any of the amendments requested by the e-commerce, media and online publishing community.The legislation would require websites to gain permission… Continue reading No Compromise On EU Cookie Proposal

Peter Bazalgette has called for the Government’s analogue switch-off target of 2006-2010 to be abandoned, claiming that it is “unrealistic and distorts policy making”. The chairman of Endemol UK and non-executive director of Channel 4, writing in today’s Guardian, added that “an early switch-off as a government objective encourages digital platform-owners to hope for interventions… Continue reading Bazalgette Calls For End To Switch-Off Target