Aegis has announced that its total revenue increased 14.5% in 2006, to £996.9 million, up from £870 million in 2005. The group’s organic revenue grew 7.7%, with Aegis saying that it the company grew faster than the marketing services industry as a whole, as it has for each of the past ten years. Underlying operating… Continue reading Aegis Records 2006 Revenue Increase

Aegis has announced that it will hold an extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday 4 April to vote on Vincent Bollore’s nominations to the board. The Aegis board has again advised shareholders to vote against Bollore’s nominations, having seen off two previous attempts to gain representation on the board (see Bollore Fails Again In Aegis Board… Continue reading Aegis Announces EGM Date

ABC has today launched the Group Product Report, which allows media owners to publicise their ABC audited and verified figures across media platforms on the same report.Publishers and media owners can choose to produce a Group Product Report alongside their usual ABC certificates, with the report being updated every time new data becomes available.ABC certifies… Continue reading ABC Launches Group Product Report

Clear Channel Outdoor UK’s ‘Piccadilly Spectacular’ site, part of its Pinnacle Collection, now hosts a giant, curved LG LED screen.Clear Channel says that the significant eight-figure deal is one of the biggest in the UK involving a single location.The screen, which will be seen by more than 1.1 million people who pass through Piccadilly Circus… Continue reading New LG Screen For Clear Channel’s Piccadilly Site

Online giant Yahoo! will begin to offer clips of BBC News video to US web users, after the two companies struck a deal.The BBC will offer around 30 video clips of its news output each day via a deal Yahoo! has struck with ABC News, which has exclusive representation for the distribution of BBC News… Continue reading BBC News Clips For Stateside Yahoo! Web Users

Vincent Bollore has again failed in his bid to win two seats on Aegis’ board, with 94.2% of the votes not controlled by Groupe Bollore cast against the two resolutions it proposed at today’s EGM. A high turnout was achieved with 77.2% of eligible votes cast, compared to 76.6% at the AGM in June where… Continue reading Bollore Fails Again In Aegis Board Bid

Andy Stevens, managing partner at Unique Digital, aims to dissect buzzwords like “folksonomy” currently circling cyberspace…At Unique we have been taking a look at some of the new and exciting developments in the internet. They tend to be classified as Web 2.0, just one of the endless list of new coinages that internet people seem… Continue reading Buzzword Bingo 2.0.1

GCap Media will shortly launch a new department, known as Spice, which aims to offer clients more integrated and innovative solutions across GCap’s portfolio of brands and platforms.The department brings together the existing sponsorship and promotions team, commercial programming department and entertainment and event promotion specialists.The department, led by Anna Pennington, will have four divisions:… Continue reading GCap Media Launches New Department

Vincent Bolloré, chairman of Havas, has hinted that he may buy shares in Emap, saying that he is trying to build a significant force in media and communications the size of Publicis or WPP, according to The Times. Bolloré yesterday failed in his bid to win two seats on the Aegis board (see Bollore Fails… Continue reading Bollore Voices Interest In Emap

Aegis has announced that total group revenues are up 22% for the first quarter of 2006, ahead of toady’s AGM which will see Vincent Bolloré’s board nominations voted on (see External Candidates For Aegis Board). Aegis shareholders have been urged by the board to vote against the nominations , who see Bolloré’s stake in Havas… Continue reading Aegis Revenues Up 22%