Category Archives: Media Week

This week, Bitch has a 99 with Tatler editor Kate Reardon, gets exclusive with Bauer, and catches the polo bug with City AM.

The full debut of free London listings magazine Scout London is to be delayed by a month to 12 June, following meetings with media agencies by the title’s publisher Scout Media Ltd.

Haymarket Network, the customer division of Haymarket Media Group, has launched a new version of the iPad app for Jaguar Magazine, featuring more exclusive images, information and video about the car marque.

Hearst-Rodale UK notched up a record month for ad revenue on runnersworld.co.uk due to April’s London Marathon, with campaigns from Asics, Fedex, Lucozade and Garmin helping to boost figures by 22% year-on-year.

Time magazine is pulling no punches with its unsettling cover of a 26-year old mother, Jamie Lynne Grumet, breastfeeding her almost four year old son this week.

Turner Media Innovations, the ad sales arm of Turner Broadcasting, has appointed Ian Davis, formerly managing director of Optimal Media Sales, to the new role of business development director.

Andrew Warner, senior marketing director at Expedia, has joined the client panel that is taking place at Media360 on Thursday 17 May in the Hilton at T5.

This week, Henry Daglish, deputy managing director of Arena Media, gets into a bit of a negotiation, goes to both ends of the spectrum at Pret and the Ivy Club, and is shocked that he’s not as down with the … Continue reading →

Lord Hunt, chairman of the embattled Press Complaints Commission, does not believe advertisers should be required to play a lead role in ensuring all major newspaper and magazine publishers agree to be governed by the industry body in the future.

ITV will broadcast its first Shazam-enabled ads during the ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ final this Saturday (12 May), with a Pepsi Max spot that will run a competition for festival tickets.

Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, is expecting a double-digit fall in year-on-year advertising revenues in May, as the publisher’s outgoing chief executive Sly Bailey is expected to face further protest from shareholders at today’s annual general meeting.

Luke Bozeat, managing partner at MediaCom told Media Week brands will continue to be the key driving force in funding magazine content.

IPG Mediabrands has appointed James Harris to the newly created role of managing director of digital across its EMEA/G14 region.

News Corporation has reported income before taxes of $1.28bn (£793.4m), a year-on-year increase of 37%, despite an ad revenue decline at its British newspapers, the absence of the News of the World and $63m (£39m) in costs relating to the … Continue reading →

JCDecaux’s global revenues grew 6.6% year on year in Q1 2012, while in the UK its transport division reported double-digit revenue growth, street furniture revenue was “broadly flat” and billboards reported a “modest decline”.

Mark Slade, managing director for 4th Screen Advertising has a novel trick for getting meetings finished early, is frustrated that some brands take so long to respond to changing consumer habits, and would love to run iAd.

AskMen, the men’s lifestyle site, has secured Chevrolet’s electric car Volt as the sponsor of its inaugural AskMen Innovation Awards, which celebrate the last 50 years of life-improving technology.

Total Film publisher Future is developing a digital business model that will help it survive the decline in print markets that threaten to “blow business models apart”, its chief executive Mark Wood told the PPA Conference today.

Kevin Hand, PPA chairman, warned the audience at the PPA Conference that digital piracy is “knocking firmly on the door of publishers”, at today’s launch of the association’s anti-piracy initiative.

ITV has predicted it will outperform the TV ad market in 2012, as it reported external revenue of £565m in the first quarter of 2012, up 13% year on year despite a slight decline in TV ad revenue.

Total Film, Future’s movie brand, is preparing to launch an interactive monthly iPad edition on Friday (11 May), priced at £3.99.

Outdoor ad revenues reached £213m in the first quarter of 2012, up 3.1% when compared to the same period last year, according to figures released by the Outdoor Media Centre (OMC).

Yahoo’s chief executive Scott Thompson has apologised to employees in a memo, after it was discovered last week that he had padded his CV.

City AM, the free financial newspaper, has secured Lexus as the headline sponsor of its annual awards for the next two years.

Vince Cable, the business secretary stripped of handling News Corporation’s bid to buy BSkyB amid doubts about his impartiality, has admitted to feeling “vindicated” as successor Jeremy Hunt faces public ridicule for his perceived handling of the process.

Sly Bailey is set to leave her role as CEO of Trinity Mirror at the end of this year after 10 years at the helm of the publisher.

This week, Out and About gets a sneak preview of the new MTV ‘Geordie Shore’ house in Cancun, drops in on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women party, sees Kasabian with Absolute Radio, and attends the Sport Industry Awards and the … Continue reading →

This week Bitch stumbles over a case of mistaken identity at OMD, pops the cork with Starcom MediaVest, and goes steam cleaning with Kasabian and Absolute Radio.

Clear Channel Outdoor’s losses before income taxes widened 84.7% to $60.5m (£37.4m) in the first quarter, as international revenues were hit by foreign exchange movements and decreased billboard revenues in the UK and Italy.

Sly Bailey’s exit from her role as chief executive at Trinity Mirror after 10 years at the publisher has surprised few in the industry, as the embattled chief executive has faced mounting criticism over her remuneration while the publisher continues … Continue reading →

The Premier League is to tender its UK domestic broadcast rights for the 2013/14 to 2015/16 football seasons.

Wrestling organisation WWE has appointed Collective to handle UK ad sales for both online display and video, as it moves its strategy more towards video content.

O2′s ‘Priority Moments’ promoted tweet campaign last year achieved an “unheard of” ‘tweet engagement’ rate of 117%, well above the 1-3% average, according to stats from the microblogging platform.

Leaders from the world of magazine publishing are set to tackle the industry’s multiplatform future on Wednesday (9 May) at Publishing+, the PPA’s conference at the Hilton Metropole.

Facebook is attempting to raise $10.6bn (£6.5bn), as it prepares the final stages of what is being touted as the largest Silicon Valley IPO in history.

Thomas Cook has signed a partnership with Absolute Radio that will feature the UK’s Christian O’Connell broadcasting simultaneously with Australian radio’s Hamish and Andy, and a competition for listeners from both countries to win a holiday.