ITV Digital’s liquidators, Grant Thornton, have received a massive backlash from the pay station’s former customers after announcing they would be seeking the return or payment for the set top boxes (see ITV Digital Liquidators To Retrieve Set Top Boxes).The move has sparked a lively debate amongst box owners and a fresh wave of bad… Continue reading ITV Digital Administrators Face Public Outcry
ITV has signalled its entrance into the interactive television advertising market after securing BT as the sponsor of the new interactive Who Wants To Be A Millionaire show.The new service, which allows viewers to play along with the programme, will feature the strapline: “powered by BT”. Viewers will be able to compare their progress with… Continue reading BT To Sponsor Interactive Millionaire Show
Online ads are becoming more dynamic and using more rich-media formats to tackle declining click-through rates, according to the latest ad serving trend report from digital solutions company, Double-Click.According to the report, rich media useage drew 23.22% of all ads in Q3, up from 17.29% in Q1. The report states: “Rich media has been shown… Continue reading DoubleClick Report Reflects Strength Of Rich Media
Second half advertising levels have showed continued, modest growth at regional newspaper group, Johnston Press, up by 2.8% in the five months to 30 November 2002.Ad revenues at the recently-acquired Regional Independent Media (RIM) grew by 1.1% during the period, the group said in a trading statement this morning.In both the continuing and acquired businesses,… Continue reading Johnston Press Sees FY Profits At Top End Of Estimates
The ASA has upheld complaints against a series of posters for Golden Wonder on the grounds that they link crisps with illegal drug culture.One of the ads, headlined “user”, featured a woman on a bicycle with three packets of Golden Wonder crisps. It stated: “This mother of two has a 34.5g a day Golden Wonder… Continue reading ASA Bags Golden Wonder For Linking Crisps With Drugs
Tuesday was yet another miserable day for the media sector as stocks continued to fall after the announcement of a record UK trade deficit for October and continued bearish sentiment on Wall StreetCable & Wireless is unlikely to get any cheer this Christmas and continued to slide after it emerged that its Caribbean operation was… Continue reading Sharewatch
The latest figures from the Advertising Association (AA) show that UK advertising expenditure grew by 3.6% during the third quarter of the year, or 2.0% after adjusting for inflation, with television currently leading the recovery (see AA Figures Show TV Is The Fastest Growing Ad Sector).TV showed growth of 7.7% in constant currency, significantly above… Continue reading Feature: TV Leads UK Ad Recovery
ITV is under pressure from big brand advertisers threatening to withhold their ad spend as the proposed merger between Carlton and Granada edges nearer.According to the Media Guardian, Colgate-Palmolive has warned it may pull all its advertising from ITV in protest at the high prices, which many advertisers believe will be exacerbated by a merger.Media… Continue reading ITV Facing Heat From Advertisers As OFT Deadline Looms
The BBC is launching a £173 million season of factual programming this winter, in what is being seen as an attempt to quash accusations that the Corporation is too populist.The Winter 2003 season will include a Stephen Poliakoff drama called The Lost Prince, and a number of historical documentaries including The King, The Kaiser And… Continue reading BBC Puts Factual Foot Forward With Winter Schedule
JanuaryJanuary kicked-off with research from AC Nielsen and the Condé Nast Reader Survey suggesting that magazines are undervalued in the media mix, as the medium’s share of influence is not reflected in its share of adspend, despite the 1.2% year on year increase seen in the 12 months to September 2001 (see Mags May Be… Continue reading End Of Year Round Up: Magazines
