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The latest turf-war tactic for competing U.K. newspapers is giving away free DVDs when a newspaper is purchased, the BBC reports. Over the weekend, for example, the Guardian was giving away copies of the 1999 Bafta-winning British comedy East is East with purchase of the paper, while the Times was offering a DVD of the 1972 Liza Minelli film, Cabaret, and Independent was offering the Oscar-winning film Indochine.
Offers of free DVDs are proven circulation boosters, but only in the short term. “Editors hope people will buy the paper for the DVD and become loyal readers, leading to long-term stability,” said media commentator Roy Greenslade.
CBS Radio and Yahoo, two of the largest online radio providers, are combining their online radio stations, beginning early next year.
CBS Radio’s 150 stations and LaunchCast’s 150 online stations will be integrated into Yahoo’s music site, powered by CBS…
Cox Enterprises, Inc. announced today that the company is bringing together its three media units - Cox Newspapers, Cox Television and Cox Radio - under a new organization named Cox Media Group, Inc., effective January 2009. The subsidiary will be headquartered…
Target is one of the first brands to create an iPhone application. The Target “gift globe” allows iPhone users to shake their phones to launch a snow-fall effect.
When the snow clears, a gift idea from Target is revealed. Users…
ABC is set to launch a slew of new series in a midseason shuffle. Primetime: What Would You Do? returns Tuesday, Jan. 9, in the 10pm time slot. The show is a hidden camera experiment in which actors stage scenarios…
Only 28% of the audience of an average news program, website or magazine gets valuable information about products and services advertised there, making news venues less effective at conveying ad messages than all forms of media combined (see chart), according…
Effective immediately, any telemarketing call that delivers a prerecorded message must include a quick and easy way to opt-out of receiving future calls. The opt-out must work both for consumers who answer these calls in person and for those whose…
