MediaTel Group’s online trading brand, MediaTrader, has launched a new briefing system allowing media planners and buyers to send multiple briefings to a range of over 8,000 media owners.The system, called easyBrief, will be made immediately available free of charge to over 80 media buying companies via MediaTel.co.uk and will allow subscribers to brief media… Continue reading Media Trader Launches easyBrief
Whilst recent RAJAR figures reveal a continuing upward trend in UK commercial radio listening (see Newsline), this has not been converted into revenue as figures for Q2 show a decline in ad revenue of 14.5% when compared with Q2 2000. National advertising fell by 18.6% but this drop was offset slightly by a fall of… Continue reading UK Radio Ad Revenue Falls
The Media Initiatives Group (MIG) has been appointed to sell advertising on Taxi Vision, the network of LCD screens due to be installed in London’s black cabs.The first cabs with the Taxi Vision onboard screens will be launched in London in October and will extend to selected taxis within the 20,000 London licensed taxi fleet.The… Continue reading Ad Screens For Black Cabs
United Business Media (UBM) announced that Bernard Gray, previously the group strategy director, has been appointed as chief executive of CMP Information, UBM’s UK-based professional media business, with immediate effect. He will be responsible for the next phase of CMP Information’s development, the company said. United’s profits were hit in the first half by falling… Continue reading UBM Appoints CMP Information Chief
ABN AMRO has downgraded its full year forecast for UK media from 0.4% to -1.6%, following the release of data from AC Nielsen MMS indicating that in June the market slipped 13.7% year on year. The broker says its revised forecast reflects “the increasing likelihood that there will be no significant second half recovery.” At… Continue reading Insight Analysis: ABN AMRO Downgrades UK Media Forecast With No H2 Recovery
The global m-commerce market will grow considerably over the next four years according to new research by Cahners In-Stat Group. M-commerce in 2000 represented $264 million, generated by 9.2 million wireless subscribers. This figure is due to grow slowly between now and 2005 with the exception of the Japanese market which is set to rocket.… Continue reading ‘Generation Y’ Key To M-Commerce Success, Says Cahners In-Stat
Whilst recent RAJAR figures reveal a continuing upward trend in UK commercial radio listening (see Forecasts), this has not been converted into revenue as figures for Q2 show a decline in ad revenue of 14.5% when compared to Q2 2000. National advertising fell by 18.6% but this drop was offset slightly by a fall of… Continue reading UK Radio Q2 Ad Revenue Falls By 14.5%
United Business Media, which released its interim results last week, saw shares rise 8.84% in week on week analysis (see UBM Profits Down Nearly 50%), to finish at £5.97, 48˝p better off than the week before.Granada, which completed its acquisition of Border TV from Capital Radio last week (see Granada Completes Border Deal), saw shares… Continue reading Sharewatch
By 2006, there will be nearly 250 million mobile subscribers in the United States, according to “US Cellular Market Forecast 2001 – 2006”, a report by Strategy Analytics. Handset purchases are forecast to top 154 million by this date and penetration is forecast to reach 50% of the population by 2002. New equipment and services… Continue reading US Mobile Users Will Top 250 Million In 2006, Says Strategy Analytics
The first analogue transmissions of the over-50s radio station Saga Radio will be going out via NTL Broadcast, after the group won the transmission contract.Ron Coles, managing director of Saga Radio, commented: “We are extremely pleased to have NTL’s experience to call on, and very excited about gaining our first analogue licence.”While this West Midlands… Continue reading NTL Wins Saga Broadcast Contract
