Total terrestrial television revenue increased by a healthy 3.4% year on year during April to just under the £238 million mark as the Easter break helped to attract advertisers to the small screen.The latest agency estimates complied by MediaTel Group reveal a positive performance for each of the UK’s terrestrial broadcasters, with ITV seeing revenue… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – April 2004
When the MediaTel Group Sports Quiz in aid of Whizz-Kidz started last November, few would have expected England to win the Rugby Union World Cup, Leeds United to be relegated from the Premiership or Millwall to reach the FA Cup Final.The final question in the Sports Quiz asked, in which minute the first goal would… Continue reading MediaTel Group Sports Quiz – The Winner
Channel 4 confirmed this morning that it has begun the search for a new chief executive amid mounting speculation over possible candidates for the role previously occupied by Mark Thompson.BBC chairman, Michael Grade, announced late on Friday that Thompson had been appointed to succeed Greg Dyke as director general of the Corporation, in a move… Continue reading Search For Thompson’s Successor Already Underway
The epic bidding process for the Telegraph newspaper titles entered its final stage yesterday as the deadline for finalised bids closed, with Axel Springer and media magnates the Barclay brothers emerging as the two front runners.The bidding process for the titles has rumbled on for six months since the departure of Conrad Black as chief… Continue reading Telegraph Bids Go Head To Head In Final Furlong
Publishing house Highbury Lifestyle has revamped its Pregnancy title to capitalise on the growing market and appeal to a more fashion conscious audience.The new look will debut in the magazine’s July issue and is the result of research conducted by Highbury showing a 4% rise in the number of births during 2003, a statistic which… Continue reading Highbury Expecting Success with New Look Pregnancy Title
Following a strong performance by most media stocks on Wednesday the market slowed yesterday, with many companies slipping back into negative percentage growth. Radio stocks saw mixed trading with Capital experiencing a 1.39% dip to 461p following modest revenue improvements announced in the company’s first half results (see Modest Revenue Improvements For Capital Radio).Elsewhere, rivals… Continue reading Sharewatch: Mixed Results For Radio As Market Falters
The amount of rich media advertising has increased more than 50% over the last year to account for well over 40% of all ads served globally by DoubleClick during the first quarter of this year.The latest Trends report from the ad-serving company shows that rich media click-through rates continued the decline experienced during each quarter… Continue reading Use Of Rich Media Advertising Continues To Grow
The long-awaited switch to digital television is extremely unlikely to take place before the Government’s current 2010 deadline, according to a damning new report from Informa Media.Informa predicts that multi-channel services will reach just 34% of global television households by 2010, tripling the figure reached in 2004 to 365 million. However, this will leave 65%… Continue reading Switchover Extremely Unlikely By 2010 Says Informa
The Newspaper Marketing Agency has appointed Grace Bowman as a dedicated marketing manager to oversee its biggest ever research project on the effectiveness of advertising in the national press.The new role will see Bowman, formerly an agency and client manager at Lowe & Partners Worldwide, assume responsibility for publicising the NMA’s effectiveness study, which will… Continue reading NMA Appoints Marketing Manager To Oversee Research
As Google and Yahoo! enter in to the local search advertising marketing, a new report from eMarketer warns local newspapers and yellow pages this is very bad news.Last year in the US, $22 billion was spent on local advertising by small and medium businesses, a much bigger prize for Google and Yahoo! when compared to… Continue reading Google And Yahoo! Threaten Local Advertisers
