The Guardian and the Observer have made a series of commercial appointments. Joe Clark and Stuart Taylor, ad managers for the Guardian and Observer respectively, will swap roles from 1 November to develop their internal editorial contacts and broaden their newspaper experience. Simon Cooke has been promoted to newspaper business manager, reporting to Joe and… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
Despite an overall drop in radio listening, Rajar’s Q3 1997 results show that commercial radio has again achieved a higher audience share than the BBC – 58% compared to 55%. However, virtually all local commercial stations have seen an audience reach loss compared to the third quarter of last year. Most significantly are audience reach… Continue reading Rajar Q3 1997 – Local Commercial Radio
The Department of Trade and Industry has cleared the Mirror Group’s takeover of Midland Independent Newspapers after the Monopolies and Mergers Commission said that the move would not operate against the public interest.It was announced in July that the Mirror Group had made an agreed offer of £297 million for MIN (subscribers see Midland In… Continue reading MIN/Mirror Deal Gets Go Ahead
As the web weaves itself ever farther into our private and working lives it may begin to struggle to sustain the weight of its own traffic. The latest Internet User Profile Survey published by NOP Research Group shows that one in twenty-five UK households now has Internet access; the number has risen from 400,000 in… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 24/10/97
While there was an overall year on year drop of 1.7% in the number of people listening to radio, from 40.293 million to 39.603 million, commercial radio suffered less than the BBC in Quarter 3. The BBC’s total weekly reach slipped 4.4% to 26.3 million while all commercial fell 0.6% to 27.6 million.The BBC’s total… Continue reading Rajar Q3 1997 – National Stations
The telecommunications regulator Oftel warned at yesterday’s European Cable Communications conference that dominant operators, such as BSkyB, should not sell premium channels and events on “unreasonable” terms. Director General of Oftel Don Cruickshank, said that, “it is essential to a competitive market in television services that a dominant operator should not be able to leverage… Continue reading Oftel Warns Against BSkyB’s Digital Dominance
IKEA yesterday launched their new design and lifestyle title, Room. Published by John Brown Contract Publishing the 100-page magazine sales at £1.00 and will have a circulation of around 500,000, distributed mainly through IKEA’s eight UK stores.Room will feature articles which reflect IKEA’s philosophy on design, environmental and global issues as well as merchandise information… Continue reading IKEA Launches Room Magazine
New research from NOP, commissioned by Northcliffe, claims that a campaign in the Sentinel will reach 52,000 more ABC1 adults in the Stoke-on-Trent area than a campaign across all of the daily national broadsheets combined, while an insertion in all of the paid-for weekly titles in the area combined will reach a smaller audience than… Continue reading Research Released On Northcliffe Title
WPP today announced a third quarter trading update which showed that the company’s UK operations, which include Ogilvy & Mather and JWT, saw an increase in revenue of 6.3% year on year to £83.9m.Figures revealed however that of WPP’s various communication companies it was the advertising section which reported the lowest growth at 6.7% year… Continue reading WPP Reports Good Quarterly Results
PC Week , VNU Business Publications’ computer weekly, is set to expand with more editorial pages and an increased marketing budget. It has also been announced that American publisher Ziff Davis and VNU have agreed a revised licence which will ensure that VNU prints the title into the next century.There are also two new appointments,… Continue reading Expansion For PC Week
