T: The New York Times Style Magazine announced today that its winter issue of T: Design & Living has a total of 73.2 advertising pages – a 14 percent increase over the same period one year ago, according to the company.
Microsoft has launched MSN Green, an environmental news site aimed at consumers.
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Arbitron’s PPM continues to solidify its position in the marketplace with another announced adoption by yet another broadcaster.
XM is helping early holiday shoppers get in the mood by kicking off its suite of dedicated holiday music channels today.
Though industry chatter has had it that television viewing is down - and certainly live program ratings do show that the five broadcast networks have slipped a huge 11 percent in 18-49 ratings - that is far from the whole picture.
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The Clorox Company says it will acquire Burt’s Bees for $950 million.
Newspaper single copy sales - a barometer of paid circulation - are expected to show a 5 percent decrease when the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases its FAS-FAX numbers on Monday for the six-month period ending with September.
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Tomorrow The Hollywood Reporter will launch The Hollywood Reporter: Premier Edition, a new day and date edition of the publication with daily morning delivery to subscribers in New York and key cities across the East Coast.
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A new business journalism start-up could soon be joining the ranks of other newbies such as the Fox Business Network and Conde Nast’s Portfolio: Slate is considering launching a separate site next year devoted to news and opinion.
More than 59.6 million people visited newspaper websites in July 2007, a 9 percent increase over the same period a year ago, the Newspaper Association of America said, sister site MarketingCharts reports. That was also the second-largest monthly audience since NAA began tracking those numbers in 2004 (May 2007 ranks first with nearly 60.3 million visitors).
Westwood One is in what CEO Peter Kosann calls a mode of “selective reinvestment” following a third quarter in which revenue and profits were better than the company had expected.
Newsweek has snared Viacom veteran Thomas Ascheim to be CEO. Ascheim is credited with having created and launched the successful Noggin on Nickelodeon Digital Television Networks, and most recently has served as general manager of Nickelodeon Television.
When talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ended late last night, there was still no resolution about residual payments pertaining to DVD sales and newer media such as internet downloads.
Seventy-three percent of CMOs say that discounting and promotions will be more prevalent this year due to the current credit crunch, according to a survey from BDO Seidman, and Wal-Mart may be proving that prediction true on its own. The retailer is getting a jumpstart on the season by offering super-sized discounts - for example, a laptop will cost $350 - three weeks earlier than usual, beginning tomorrow instead of Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving).
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