The England v Trinidad and Tobago match on ITV1 last night drew in a massive 14.5 million adult viewers (a 75% audience share) and averaged 9.9 million adults throughout the match (66% of all adult viewers).England’s hard fought win was easily the night’s big winner, with an hour long Eastenders the only other programme coming… Continue reading England Match Wins It For ITV1
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BARB is investing in new people metering equipment that will identify time-shift viewing from other systems of disc playback such as PVR/DVRs and DVD recorders.The new metering technology, which was extensively tested by the research board last year, will complement BARB’s recent introduction of reporting from Sky+ homes. The appliance is the ‘Unitam’ people meter… Continue reading BARB Gets New Meters For Changing Broadcast Consumption
Almost eight-and-a-half million adults tuned in to see Germany’s much deserved 1-0 win over Poland last night, giving BBC1 a 33% adult audience share.Corrie was the game’s only real rival, which managed over seven million adult viewers during the match preamble. Channel 4 put up a reasonable fight with Deal Or No Deal taking 11%… Continue reading German Win Is Victory For BBC1
Google researchers have outlined plans for a revolutionary system that could offer advertisers unparalleled insight into the mass media audience and see the online behemoth extend its dominance into television and radio.In the paper ‘Social and interactive television applications based on real-time ambient audio identification’, Google researchers Michele Covell and Shumeet Baluja propose using ambient… Continue reading Google To Revolutionise TV For Advertisers
Development opportunities for BBC programming online and on mobile phones have received a boost with the appointment of Simon Danker as director of digital media at BBC Worldwide.Danker, who is currently director of the UK and Ireland global television sales division, will be involved in the development of the BBC Worldwide iPlayer, a commercial version… Continue reading Boost For Digital Media At BBC Worldwide
Emap Advertising has finalised its new cross-media specialist team, with the appointment of Rob Tomalin as head of strategy at Emap².Tomalin previously held the position of cross-media group account director at Emap Advertising and will now head up the nine-strong Emap² strategy team. He will report to Carrie Barker, sales director of Emap².The team includes… Continue reading New Appointment Finalises Emap2 Team
Nielsen Media Research has updated its TV costings and methodologies, a process it began in January of this year, in order to both improve the way it works and to stay on top of the rapid changes occurring in the media industry.Over the past three years Nielsen Media Research discovered that digital costs for ITV… Continue reading Nielsen Media Research To Release Amended TV Costings
Some of the UK’s biggest television advertisers have called for an end to the CRR, saying it is in danger of destroying ITV.Procter & Gamble has called on Ofcom to consider the wider impact of the CRR, such as the exodus of advertising from ITV. Advertising revenues for the broadcaster are predicted to be down… Continue reading CRR May Destroy ITV Say Advertisers
Four in ten or 37.4% of American teens spend at least three hours a day online outside of school, according to a Burst Media survey of more than 1,800 connected teens between the ages of 13 and 17.Just one in five or 19.6% say they are spending less than an hour online outside of school.… Continue reading Third Of US Teens Online For Over Three Hours A Day
BBC Magazines will undertake its most ambitious initiative yet with the launch of a weekly news-based magazine later this year or early in 2007.The project, code named Project Phoenix, sees the resurrection of long-held plans for a news magazine. BBC Magazines managing director Peter Phippen is known to have been keen to launch a news-based… Continue reading BBC To Launch Weekly News Magazine
