The latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) show that the national newspaper market as a whole saw a month on month increase of 0.6% from July to August this year.The success story of the month was Sport First, which managed a 32.7% increase in circulation, allowing it to overtake fellow sports title… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up August 2001
Channel 4 is cutting back its investment in programming for 2001 due to the advertising downturn that is affecting the industry.The channel, which last year spent £423m on programmes, has reduced its ambitions for programming in 2001 due to the “difficult financial market.” While the investment in programming for 2001 will be higher than last… Continue reading Channel 4 Feels The Pinch
Emap’s advertising chief, Tom Toumazis, has quit the company to take up a new role at Walt Disney.Toumazis, who has been advertising chief at Emap since 1999, will join Disney as senior vice-president and managing director of European distribution. He will take on responsibility for marketing and licensing Disney programming.His departure comes at a difficult… Continue reading Emap Ad Chief Leaves For Disney
New research reveals that 40% of web surfers will visit a news or information site more often if its pages load faster and advises that companies should worry less about spending lots of money on the latest web design technology, as this will not increase user levels. According to the Jupiter Research Web Enterprise report,… Continue reading Technology For Technology’s Sake Doesn’t Necessarily Build Website Use, Says Jupiter
Ticketmedia, the ticket advertising group, has been awarded a five year advertising contract for London Underground tickets worth an estimated £5m.The group, who will have the exclusive rights to market and sell ticket advertising on London Underground from 1 October, was awarded the contract by Viacom Outdoor, who handle all advertising and sponsorship opportunities on… Continue reading Ticketmedia Nets £5m Ad Contract
The ITC has upheld a complaint from Sky Digital regarding advertising by its competitor, ITV Digital, which BSkyB claimed included a misleading comparison.The advertisement said that viewers would not need a dish and “would get all the channels through the ITV Digital box.” BSkyB complained that this was not a fair comparison to digital satellite.… Continue reading ITC Upholds Digital Complaint
Granada has announced that Toyota is to sponsor ITV1’s Formula One coverage for the next four years in a deal worth more than £25m.The deal, thought to be one of biggest in UK sports broadcasting to date, will run from March 2002 and includes full broadcast sponsorship of the racing event, online sponsorship of the… Continue reading Toyota To Sponsor ITV1’s F1 Coverage
BSkyB is rumoured to be in talks with Channel 5 about the possibility of acquiring a stake in the company.BSkyB is the latest of a number of potential investors reported to have been in negotiations with Channel 5 after speculation that the channel is seeking new investment.Rupert Murdoch, who has made no secret of desire… Continue reading BSkyB To Buy Into Channel 5?
BSkyB is in discussions with Channel 5 that may lead to the satellite group taking a stake in the terrestrial station, the Sunday Business reported yesterday without naming its sources. C5 is owned 65% by pan-European broadcaster RTL and 35% by United Business Media (UBM). However, UBM has recently disposed of the rest of its… Continue reading BSkyB Interested In C5 Stake According To Reports
The well-documented fall-out in the internet market has reached Chrysalis as the company today announced that it will be ending all new media investments bar its sports network Rivals.net. The write down to Chrysalis’ accounts for the year will total £9.6 million and this does not include trading losses incurred by the New Media division… Continue reading New Media Write-Offs Cost Chrysalis
