Andy Mitchell, UK managing director of AltaVista, has resigned, following last week’s decision to put the company’s flat-rate internet access service on hold (see AltaVista Blames BT For Stalling On Free Internet Service).AltaVista was among the first companies to offer unmetered access to the internet in this country, and Mitchell was responsible for the service’s… Continue reading AltaVista MD Quits Over Free Internet Access Fiasco
We were expecting a ‘healthstyle’, but assailed with opening page advertisements for BMW and DKNY, Bare looks more like a ‘wealthstyle’. Far from the chirpy, technicolour format of Shine or Zest, John Brown’s latest offering has an earnest, white-space and small print design reminiscent of Frank (uh-oh!) and at least some of that title’s seriously… Continue reading First Issue Review: Bare- ‘Wealthstyle’ from John Brown Publishing
Whether the Independent Television Commission (ITC) has any teeth is an ongoing debate in broadcasting, but if it has, it wasn’t showing them to advertisers during July. Three separate television adverts attracted around 100 viewer complaints each, but all were let off the hook by the regulator.An advert for Heinz Salad Cream caused 112 viewers… Continue reading ITC Refuses To Uphold Hundreds Of Complaints Against Adverts
The following is an edited version of the Worldview Address, delivered by Barclay Knapp, President and CEO of NTL, at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, on Saturday.In 1905 Albert Einstein began the “creative destruction” of classical Newtonian physics with his theory of special relativity, proving that space and time could stretch and bend in… Continue reading “Television Is The Internet, The Internet Is Television”: Barclay Knapp, President Of NTL, Speaks
IPC Media said it expected a 20% increase in its operating profits for this year, after announcing quarterly pre-tax profits of £4.8m. The consumer magazines group said advertising revenues rose almost 10% in the third quarter of 2000.Total revenues for the three months to June 30 were £94 million, a 2.8% increase on the same… Continue reading IPC Media Anticipates 20% Growth In 2000
Terrestrial, free-to-air television channels’ share of viewing is being increasingly cannibalised by the growth of multi-channel, pay-TV in the UK. As Media Track recently showed (see Feature: Pay-TV Channels Account For Almost Half Of All Viewing In Digital Homes), viewing to ITV in digital homes is on the decline, down to 19.6% on average so… Continue reading Feature: Channels With “Mass-Appeal” Slip As TV Market Fragments
ONdigital has been approached by cable group NTL in the hope of forming a marketing alliance to offset competition from BSkyB. The news comes as executives at Granada and Carlton revealed plans to make a decision within the next month on whether to proceed with a flotation of their joint-owned digital terrestrial platform.The UK’s largest… Continue reading ONdigital Prepares For Float, Denies Detailed Agreement With NTL
Positive comments over the bank holiday break about Emap’s performance in the latest ABC figures seem to have halted the company’s decline in share price (see Sharewatch). Shares rose 37p during yesterday’s trading, ending at £11.49.Other good performances were seen at Saatchi & Saatchi, which rose 17p to end at £4.79, Reuters, which jumped 50p… Continue reading Sharewatch
According to the FIPP/Zenith World Magazine Trends 2000/2001 report, Global ad spend, which has been rising steadily since 1994, is set to increase by 5-6% annually until 2002. In 1999, the total global adspend figure for magazines was $40bn which was a 6% increase on 1998.
A better-than-expected performance from newly acquired businesses has helped Johnston Press to reach interim pre-tax profits up 36% on last year. The regional newspaper publisher has released results for the six months to 30 June 2000 which reveal pre-tax profit of £35.2 million and like-for-like operating profit of £33.2 million, up 14% on last year’s… Continue reading Johnston Reports Healthy Half Year Profits
