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The Sunday newspaper market in the U.K. has sagged, with the Sunday Independent falling by 12.01 percent and The Observer slipping 8.47 percent in May, Brand Republic reports. The Sunday Mirror, The People and News of the World dropped only marginally, with 0.57, 0.55, and 1 percent falls for the month, respectively.
Dailies are faring better in the first month of the slow summer season, with most mid-market and quality categories seeing slight circulation increases: the Daily Express was up 1.53 percent and rival Daily Mail was up 0.81 percent. Tabloids were down slightly overall, with the Daily Mirror reaching its lowest circulation figure in recent history.
In the quality category, The Guardian was up 1.76 percent, the Independent up 1.7 percent and The Times up 1.33 percent. The Financial Times was down 2.4 percent.
Meanwhile, London’s Evening Standard was up 8.29 percent thanks to its redesign.
Clear Channel Radio will keep pres and CEO John Hogan on for at least five more years, and has promoted four members of its senior management team.
On the ops side, Mark Kopelman and George Toulas have been promoted to…
Sports Illustrated has created an online auction, powered by eBay, to sell some of its inventory across print, digital and events media in order to give the sales force more time to sell more effectively.
Parent company Time Inc. hopes…
Today, FreeRange launched its Mobile Publishing Platform, which boasts clients like PaidContent, Fierce Markets and The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.
The platform serves mobile coverage and branded content across BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm devices, writes MarketingVOX.
Content is…
ABC may have a tough time keeping its No. 1 slot in the upcoming fall season. Fox, which has handily beat the competition in recent years in the later part of the season thanks in large part to hits like…
Advertisers will spend $505 million on online video advertising in 2008, according to a downward-revised projection by eMarketer, which said the significant drop was “due to changes in methodology, based on historical data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), eMarketer’s benchmark…
Young Hispanics want social media that’s delivered in a bilingual environment, says Boston-based social media company Communispace.
The company reached that conclusion via a study of 1,000 consumers that looked at how Hispanic consumers participate in web-based forums. The study…
