Associated New Media’s This Is London website has won the grand prix award at the New Media Age Effectiveness Awards event.The award, which is selected from the winners in each category, is aimed at reflecting a range of new media “ideals”, such as online promotion, design, build, targeting, branding and interactivity. Judges described Evening Standard… Continue reading This Is London Scoops Top New Media Award
Haymarket has announced the acquisition of IPC’s suspended Goal magazine (see IPC To Close Two Titles). The title will be merged into Haymarket’s FourFourTwo from the July issue, which is released on June 3.FourFourTwo‘s circulation currently stands at just over 88,000 and has been increasing steadily.Haymarket: 0181 943 5000
http://www.peugeot.co.uk/The Peugeot website, designed by UK web developer Brann Interactive, is a lesson in how to produce a first-class website.It is a big site, containing all the information one could possibly desire when thinking about buying a Peugeot: specifications of all the models (down to colours available and type of trim); where to find your… Continue reading Website of the Week – Peugeot
Euromoney Publications has today announced its best ever financial results for the six months to March 31. Pre-tax profits rose from £12 million to £14.1 million while turnover increased from £49.496m to £86.035m.Euromoney: 0171 779 8888
A new magazine aimed at what its editor describes as “the sophisticated black man” launches this week.Untold is a bi-monthly glossy which hopes for sales of around the 30,000 mark. It has been launched by editor Peter Akinti and has formed a partnership with Time Out magazine, which involves the London listings guide providing editorial… Continue reading Untold Launches This Week
Southnews, publisher of 58 paid-for and free newspapers in London and the Home Counties, has announced record financial results for the year ended 28 March 1998.Pre-tax profits at Southnews rose 17% year on year to £7.4m while revenues rose 18% to £43.6m. It was also announced that the restructuring of the acquired United Southern titles… Continue reading Southnews Confident Of Successful Year
Chris Shaw, joint managing director of Universal McCann, praised the introduction of the Quality of Readership Survey and said that if its presence undermines the NRS then “so what?”Speaking at yesterday’s PPA Magazines ’98 conference Shaw went on to say that NRS was “hardly the most stable currency” and he had lost count of the… Continue reading QRS: If It Undermines NRS “So What?”
Capital Radio today dealt a blow to digital radio by saying that it will not be bidding to run the national commercial digital multiplex which is currently being advertised (see Radio Authority Advertises National Digital Licence).The company said that transmission costs are too high and, with limited consumer benefit and lack of receivers, it expects… Continue reading Capital Says No To National Digital Radio
Agency estimates put the total terrestrial TV ad revenue figure for April at £234.830m, up 14.1%, reflecting a buoyant month for almost all of the terrestrial channels.ITV’s total revenue went up 13.8% to £165.570m, C4’s increased 14.1% to £50.790m and C5’s rose an impressive 29.3% to £12.5m. GMTV slipped 2.5% to £5.970m.April ITV Franchise Revenue… Continue reading TV Revenue – April
