June de Moller, managing director of Carlton Communications, is to retire from the post early next year. De Moller has been at Carlton since 1970. The company says that arrangements to find a new MD are being put in place.At the end of last week Carlton confirmed that it is in discussions with Arsenal Football… Continue reading Carlton MD To Retire Next Year
The August Retail Prices Index was announced this morning as 163.7, an increase of 0.4% on the previous month and a rise of 3.3% on August 1997. The headline rate of inflation last month stood at 3.5%.Subscribers can access RPI trends by selecting “Encyclomedia” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
A new type of model contract has been drawn up to save time and money on the negotiations between advertising agencies and their clients, the advertisers. The model client/agency contract has been put together following lengthy discussions between the ISBA, the IPA and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS).A recent survey conducted by… Continue reading New Client/Agency Contract Aims To Reduce Lost ‘Man-Hours’
Circulation across the broadsheets was down by 2.1% to to 5.6 million copies – a loss of just under 120,000 copies for March-August 1998. Only the Financial Times and News International’s (NI) Times and Sunday Times showed improvements in circulation.The Sunday Telegraph suffered the greatest loss in terms of copies. The greatest increase in the… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – August 1998
ABC// electronic recorded 44,142,051 page impression for the Yahoo!Uk and Ireland site, www.yahoo.co.uk, in the period 1-30 June 1998 which is an increase of 28% on the March period.Yahoo! has also opted to have individual advertisers’ statistics verified, meaning that the activity of a specific advertising banner can be monitored, which provides campaign information and… Continue reading Yahoo! Sees An Increase In Website Traffic
Last week saw the introduction of a new women’s title – Women’s Health – into an already packed sector of the magazine market.Women’s Health, however, identifies itself as a magazine with a difference, distancing itself from other women’s titles which feature skinny models by claiming to represent ‘real women’ (see Newsline). Christine Morgan, the magazine’s… Continue reading The State Of Women’s Health
Quality Market Circulation across the broadsheets was down by 2.1% to to 5.6 million copies – a loss of just under 120,000 copies for March-August 1998. Only the Financial Times and News International’s (NI) Times and Sunday Times showed improvements in circulation.The Sunday Telegraph suffered the greatest loss in terms of copies, down by fractionally… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – August 1998
IPC Magazines has completed its first lifestyle questionnaire exercise, producing detailed and accurate information on its readers and their views on media consumption and related matters.The research was carried out by a mass mailing of over 750,000 questionnaires, and will be made available to external companies wishing to obtain detailed lifestyle information as well as… Continue reading IPC Shares Its Market Findings
The France-based pornography channel Eurotica Rendez Vous is subject to an order which went into force at midnight last night which declares the channel unacceptable, effectively banning it.Culture Secretary Chris Smith received notification of the pornographic service from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in March (see ITC Calls For Proscription Of Porn Channel), and under… Continue reading Satellite Porn Channel Gets The Chop
Ulster TV’s interim financial results released today for the last six months revealed an increase in turnover of 6.3%, taking it up to a total of £18 million. Pre-tax profit showed a rise of 24.1%, and earnings per share were up by nearly 27% to 5.94p.In March, Ulster TV forecast that 1998 would be a… Continue reading Ulster TV Results Feel Effects Of Competition
