More people are visiting e-commerce sites from work than from home, according to the latest figures derived from NetValue’s new Megapanel.The figures generated for December 2001 by the Megapanel, which measures internet behaviour at home, work and university, show that online shopping site, littlewoods.co.uk experienced a 400% month on month increase in at-work users during… Continue reading E-Commerce Sites Get Boost From Work Users
The FT this morning reports that talks are being held today between Rupert Murdoch and key News Corp TV executives regarding the company’s position on troubled German broadcaster Kirch. BSkyB holds a 22% share in Kirch’s pay TV operation and decisions must be made on the future of this arrangement and the put option BSkyB… Continue reading Murdoch In ‘Make Or Break’ Talks Over Kirch
The Guardian Media Group has applied for an analogue radio licence in the East Midlands on which it plans to launch an advertising-free commercial radio station targeting 45-64 year-olds.Smooth FM, as it will be called, will focus on music, news and information and will cater for a potential 1.6 million listeners in Leicester, Nottingham, Derby… Continue reading GMG Plans Advertising-Free Radio Station
Census data released by the US Commerce Department, show that more than half of American households and more than half of all Americans are now connected to the internet. The figures were released as part of A Nation Online, a new study using Census data to track internet usage in the United States. As of… Continue reading Over Half US Population Is Now Online
NTL is launching a new cross-platform “Love Channel” as part of the relaunch of its ntlworld portal.The channel, which will be unveiled in time for Valentine’s Day, will run throughout February on NTL’s revamped portal site and digital TV network in a cross-network promotion of its cable services.The channel, which features interactive games and an… Continue reading NTL Launches Love Channel
Emap Performance is planning to launch a new glossy weekly teen magazine codenamed “Monkey”.The magazine will launch in the spring with a strong celebrity focus and will include gossip, news and pop reviews. Emap claims that Monkey will compliment its existing titles Smash Hits and Bliss, bringing a “new dimension” to the increasingly competitive teen… Continue reading Emap To Launch New Teen Weekly
NRS National Newspaper Round-Up – December 2001NRS figures released for National newspapers for the period July-December 2001 showed that, year on year, the market as a whole saw an increase in readership of 0.6% to over 66 million. The largest movement in either direction, in a year on year analysis of the six month period,… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up – December 2001
The ITC has condemned adverts that “encourage or condone harmful emulation” after more than 100 viewers complained that an advert showing a rabbit in a tumble-dryer could be copied by children.The ITC upheld complaints against the ad, which featured a cartoon rabbit emerging unharmed from a tumble-dryer, on the grounds that younger children were unlikely… Continue reading ITC Condemns Copy Cat Commercials
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell, speaking at the World Economic Forum in New York, has said that he sees no signs of a recovery in the global economy or advertising market despite the upbeat forecasts of some commentators at the World Forum. “I’ve seen no blue sky or green shoots. Nothing tells me the global… Continue reading Sorrell Sees ‘No Blue Sky’
ITV1 has decided to move Coronation Street from Wednesday to Tuesday for the last eight weeks of football’s Champion’s League, in order to avoid scheduling the soap late in the evening after the Wednesday matches.The programme will screen on Tuesdays at 8pm, immediately after BBC1’s EastEnders, from 19 February until 14 May. After that it… Continue reading Corrie To Find Football Refuge On Tuesdays
