www.dome2000.co.ukVery few people, at this late stage in the century, will allow us to forget that the new millenium is approaching. We can consider ourselves well into the eve of the dawn of the year 2000 – already we can see numerous pop stars preparing to cash in on the turn of the century with… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Dome 2000
Awareness of digital television is increasing, especially amongst those people who own hi-tech equipment, say the results of GfK’s second survey on digital television awareness.A repeat of the first survey carried out by GfK in August (see Newsline), it shows that overall awareness of digital TV has increased by 7.4% during the month to 82.3%.… Continue reading Digital TV Awareness Is On The Increase, Says GfK
The BBC has awarded the WPP Group, IT company Bull Information Systems and the Post Office contracts to collect its £2.1 billion annual licence fee income.A value has not been placed on the deal by the parties involved, but it is believed to be worth around £500 million over the seven years of the contract.BBC:… Continue reading BBC Awards Licence Collection Contract
Admap and NTC Conferences will next week host the Effective Marketing & Advertising Online conference at The Regency Hotel, London. Amongst the speakers will be Alastair Duncan, head of digital marketing at Ammirati Puris Lintas, Frank Keeling, business development director at AOL UK and Jitendra Valera general manager of NetGravity, the internet advertising monitoring specialists.The… Continue reading Marketing & Advertising Online Conference
BBC Sport has announced that it has won the rights to screen British athletics until the year 2004. UK Athletics 98, the new governing body for British athletics, has concluded a major deal with the BBC, thought to be worth around £17.5 million, for year round athletics coverage on radio and television.The agreement includes new… Continue reading British Athletics Comes To BBC
Following the success of A2Btravel.com, EMAP Online is to launch a new travel website which it claims will be ‘the biggest and most detailed online database’ about UK and Ireland airports.A2bAirports.com has information about 40 airports throughout the country including flight times, holiday availability, directions, maps and contact numbers. The site is published in association… Continue reading EMAP Online Launches Airports Travel Site
The all-sport newspaper Sport First is launching a new advertising and PR campaign aimed at Premiership football fanzine readers.The Sunday publication, which recently experimented with an additional Monday edition which was unsuccessful (see Newsline), is the only national to feature fanzine-style reports of matches.The advertising campaign begins this month with the catch-phrase: “We put football… Continue reading Sport First Pushes Forwards
The Quality of Reading Survey (QRS) has fused further with the National Readership Survey (NRS) to offer advertisers and agencies more analytical data to assist in the media planning process.QRS was launched in March by the PPA, ISBA and the IPA (see Quality of Reading Survey Launched Today) in order to provide the advertising and… Continue reading QRS Expands To Aid Media Planners
BSkyB has today released the number of shares lined up in favour of its takeover offer for Manchester United Football Club (see Newsline). Yesterday (Monday 26 October) at 3pm was the first closing date of the Offer.BskyB has either received valid acceptances in respect of, acquired, or agreed to acquire a total of 115,848,905 Manchester… Continue reading BSkyB’s Club Bid Gains Support
Channel 4 has announced that it is to appoint David Buonaguidi creative director, to replace Ceri Evans.Buonaguidi is the former creative director of St. Luke’s advertising agency, and he takes up his role at Channel 4 later this year. He will provide both strategic and creative direction to both the in-house and external teams involved… Continue reading New Creative Director At Channel 4
