Reality TV is set to rule the airwaves this summer as the second series of last year’s hit Big Brother (see Big Brother Finale Gives C4 Largest Ever Friday Night Audience) fights for attention with the UK version of US success Survivor. While the shows are unlikely to directly clash on the schedules, with ITV’s… Continue reading Reality Shows Go Head To Head For Summer Season
According to the latest figures from NetValue, 1.5 million under 17s are now connected to the internet at home which represents a 44% increase in the last six months and the UK now has more under-17 net users than any other European country. Under 11s account for 249,000 users in the UK whilst 1,236,000 users… Continue reading One In Nine UK Teens Online At Home
The ongoing battle between mid market papers the Daily Express and the Daily Mail continued at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) this month, when complaints from both the Express and a member of the public over a Mail direct mailing received adjudication.The complaints were with regard to a mailing sent to members of the public… Continue reading Mail’s Mailing Comes To ASA Attention
The development of multimedia messaging services (MMS) is to surge during 2002 following the signing of a number of major contracts between mobile phone operators, according to a new report from Ovum. Mobile operators are keen to develop MMS after the phenomenal success of SMS, or text messaging, which now accounts for up to 10-15%… Continue reading MMS Is A Key Development For Mobile Operators, Says Ovum
Sky’s summer analogue switch-off date could be as late as September and will leave a potential 60,000 analogue customers with the choice of either switching to digital or losing their multichannel services.BSkyB originally planned to switch off its analogue service in June this year, having converted all but 250,000 of the 3.5m analogue customers it… Continue reading Sky Analogue Switch Off May Not Come Until September
Brokers responded yesterday to recent low advertising figures for ITV. Several reduced their stance on both Carlton and Granada. As a result, Carlton shares ended the day down 6½p at £4.15½. Granada showed signs of weakness early on in the day, but managed to finish with a small increase of 1¼p to reach £1.82¼p.Bright Station… Continue reading Sharewatch
This time last year everyone was certain that the advertising and sponsorship on the internet to justify the huge spending of the dotcom boom companies was just around the corner. One year on and the corner has yet to be turned. Figures from NetValue claim that a third of UK homes now have internet access,… Continue reading Feature: Surviving The Dotcom Bomb
BSkyB plans to switch off its analogue broadcast completely, on target, during the summer of this year, the company announced this morning. Having grown its digital subscriber base to 5.4 million with a record quarter growth of 252,000 sales, Sky is in line to meet the target of 7 million digital customers by 2003. The… Continue reading BSkyB To Cease Analogue Broadcast This Summer
Publishing group Highbury House says that there has been a deterioration in newsstand sales during February – a trend which may have continued into the following months. Speaking at the company’s AGM this morning, executive chairman Ian Fletcher said that as newsstand sales can only be accurately quantified two months in arrears, it is difficult… Continue reading February Warns Of Deteriorating Newsstand Sales For Highbury House
Trinity Mirror chairman, Sir Victor Blank, this morning told the company’s AGM that advertising growth for the first three months of the year slowed, but remains in line with the outlook given by Trinity in its preliminary results (see Profits Up At Trinity Mirror As ic24 Buyer Is Sought). In April, the rate of growth… Continue reading Advertising Slows At Trinity Mirror Titles
