A photo of a not-quite-clothed Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) draped in a satin sheet within the pages of Vanity Fair sparked controversy earlier this week - and record traffic to the publication’s website.
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Nielsen plans to move its February sweeps to March of next year, to accommodate what is sure to be at least a small tempest in the ratings teapot when the country switches from analog to digital broadcast spectrum.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is slicing its distribution area from 74 to 49 counties in a move that will reduce its circulation by 2.2 percent daily and 1.9 percent on Sunday.
Strong sales overseas helped boost Procter & Gamble earnings 7.9 percent in its latest quarter. Net income for the third quarter reached $2.71 billion, up from $2.51 billion in the same quarter last year. The company also lifted its full-year outlook.
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Film junkies who chafe at waiting to be able to download new movie releases to their iPods will now be able to satisfy their lust earlier, thanks to a deal Apple has struck with a variety of major film studios.
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Meredith Corp. is realigning its corporate sales unit as well as its strategic marketing unit, Meredith 360, in a way that will, according to Tom Harty, executive vp of Meredith Publishing Corp., “fully leverage the broad scale of our print and digital content assets.”
Hoping to make advertisers feel more secure with the medium, top U.S. radio broadcasters plan to begin revealing their ratings in a few weeks.
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XM and Sirius still want their marriage to go through, despite the fact that the FCC is almost endlessly dragging its feet on a decision about the regulatory issues involved in such a merger.
None of the three networks asked to join the Association of National Advertisers and the 4As on a task force to discuss the practice of charging network integration fees have agreed to do so.
Although 77 percent of marketing executives say the slowing economy in the past six months has moderately or greatly affected their business, most say their agency usage has not changed - yet - according to a Reardon Smith Whittaker study (via AdWeek), writes MarketingCharts.
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MySpaceTV, a division of News Corp.’s MySpace, has been hunting for programming that will keep the social network’s young users logging on while at the same time appealing to advertisers.
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Cablevision is hoping to oust Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer B. Zuckerman from the bidding for Newsday by topping their offers by $70 million.
Microsoft’s board met yesterday but didn’t come to any final decisions regarding its bid for Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reports (via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer).
The Mobile Marketing Association this week published its second set of guidelines, a 10-page booklet that recommends best practices for technical applications.
U.K. parents say social gaming platforms (such as the Nintendo Wii) are having a positive influence in their homes, as well as facilitating peer bonding and encouraging children to do more exercise, according to a new TNS Technology survey, MarketingCharts writes.
