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Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, has this morning issued its second profits warning in two months (see Pearson Warns That FT Profits May Fall By 40%). The company said that profits from its education operations could be as much as $51 million lower than expected due to a slowdown in the Latin American market… Continue reading Pearson Warns On Profits Seeing ‘No Material Recovery’ In Ad Market

In a report published this morning, ABN AMRO released downgraded advertising forecasts for the European and Global markets saying that no recovery was yet evident. Q3 advertising growth in Europe fell slightly more than ABN was expecting, 7.6% against ABN’s forecast of 7.5%. This was largely due to a greater than anticipated drop in the… Continue reading No Upturn In European Advertising, Says ABN AMRO

The slight downgrades in European advertising forecasts (see Forecasts) has led ABN AMRO to downgrade its global forecasts slightly. ABN Global Advertising Forecast Changes    2001  2002    Old (%) New (%) Change (pp) Old (%) New (%) Change (pp) N America -8.2 -8.2 – -2.7 -2.7 – France -4.1 -3.8 0.3 -2.3 -2.2 0.1… Continue reading Global Advertising Forecasts From ABN AMRO

ABN AMRO reports that advertising growth rates in September and October of this year were the worst so far this year. In September, advertising fell by 13% compared to 2001 and October was even worse with revenues dropping 15% on last year. UK Advertising Growth By Media     Oct 2001 (actual)  Q3 2001 (actual)  TV… Continue reading UK Advertising Will Grow In November, says ABN AMRO

New research by Statistical Research has found that a relationship of parallel growth occurs in households with the internet, computers and television. Rather than increasing spending on one to the detriment of others, the 2001 Ownership Report, part of The Home Technology Monitor™, reveals that households with multiple PCs or internet access are more likely… Continue reading PC Households Spend More On Home Entertainment

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) today announced that it plans to make a ruling the BSkyB has behaved in an anti-competitive way, infringing on UK competition law. The OFT launched its investigation into BSkyB a year ago (See BSkyB Faces OFT Investigation), now BSkyB has the opportunity to address the charges levied at it.… Continue reading OFT Proposes Ruling Against BSkyB

French media group Vivendi Universal (VU) today announced that it is to acquire the entertainment assets of USA Networks in a deal worth £10.3 billion. VU will have 93% control of the new company, Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUA), which will bring together Universal Studios Group and the USA business. Vivendi will pay USA Networks around… Continue reading Vivendi Consolidates US Position With New Acquisition

Week on week analysis of the media market reveals that the worst performance came from Telewest. Shares in the cable company, which recently rebranded as Telewest Broadband (see Telewest Announces Rebrand), dropped 20.95% week on week to finish at 58˝p, an loss of 15˝p on the week before.United Business Media, which announced on Friday that… Continue reading Sharewatch

RAJAR has outlined the new developments it expects to progress on in the New Year. Amongst these is the testing of meters which could see a shift from the current diary system to an electronic method of measuring radio audiences.RAJAR’s managing director, Jane O’Hara, explained “RAJAR has spent much of the past year exploring a… Continue reading RAJAR To Test Electronic Meters

November’s viewing figures from BARB show that as the winter schedules got underway, the shift in pulling power continues to move away from the traditional names as viewing diversifies.Year on year, ITV1 has saw its share of viewing fall in November, from just under 30% share in 2000 to just over 25% this year. Recently… Continue reading Digital TV Round-Up – November 2001