It is time to rethink the attitude towards online advertising- this was the message hammered out during two seminars for the media last week. The media owners at Total Publishing’s Online Revenue conference on 24 May were anxious to dispel the myth that online ad spend is falling- last year saw an increase of 203%… Continue reading Conference Reports: Rethinking The Online Attitude
One of the key political battlegrounds in the approach to the 7 June general election has been the extent to which the UK should be in (and indeed out of) Europe. Whilst a number of committed EU nations are saying goodbye to their old coins and notes and beginning to embrace the Euro, the UK… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Top UK Readers Lead Euro Media Survey
One of the key political battlegrounds in the approach to the 7 June general election has been the extent to which the UK should be in (and indeed out of) Europe. Whilst a number of committed EU nations are saying goodbye to their old coins and notes and beginning to embrace the Euro, the UK… Continue reading Feature: UK Leads In Europe…In Media At Least
Week on week comparison saw shares in GWR saw significant losses, dropping 11.86% to finish at £3.90 with a weekly loss of 52.5pAt the other end of the scale Cable and Wireless was the best media performer with a week on week increase of 14.81% with shares closing at £4.81, up 62p on the previous… Continue reading Sharewatch
Kevin Hand, chief executive of EMAP, has resigned with immediate effect, the media group announced this morning. Although the statement from EMAP did not state the reasons for Hand’s departure, it is likely that his position became untenable after the failure to consolidate the US business Petersen which he headed (see EMAP Reported To Be… Continue reading EMAP Chief Resigns As Results Come In Line With Expectations
According to new figures, many of the top UK radio stations (in revenue terms) have seen a decline in the amount spent on radio advertising year on year. Despite its audience being restricted to London, Capital 95.8fm continues to attract a larger share of advertising revenue than any other local or national station. However, figures… Continue reading Top Radio Stations See Year On Year Slide In Ad Revenue
Virgin Radio’s new media division, Ginger Online, has been renamed Virgin Radio New Media and has gained a new managing editor in the form of James Cridland. The name change has been made to align the division more closely with what the station sees as its core activities. Cridland’s responsibilities will include the expansion of… Continue reading Virgin Radio To Boost Online Division
Radio First this morning said that it has had an ‘extremely successful’ six months in which it signed carriage deals with BSkyB and secured £3.5 million of funding for the development of its stations. The company recently struck a five-year deal with BSkyB to broadcast its network of football club-related digital radio stations regionally, via… Continue reading Radio First On Target For Football Station Launches
Channel 4’s Big Brother returned to our screens on Saturday attracting an average of 3.3m viewers, with a peak of 3.6m, according to unofficial overnight figures, coming close to last year’s debut episode with an 18% share, twice the channel’s average.The second show in the nine week run which aired on Monday at 10pm, is… Continue reading Channel 4 Doubles Average Viewing Share With Opening Big Brother Episodes
Two recent reports from IDC have forecast a healthy outlook for ecommerce over coming years. In the first, IDC forecast that almost 1 billion people around the world will be using the Internet by 2005 and that this growth will drive ecommerce revenues to over $5 trillion by 2005, up from $354 billion in 2000.… Continue reading Positive Outlook For eCommerce, Says IDC
