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Centro Consolidates Local Media Buying Services

Centro, which provides online media planning and buying software, has purchased Real Cities, one of the largest online newspaper buying services, from McClatchy.

With the acquisition, Centro broadens the distribution of its local media buying software platform among agencies, the company says. Peter Krasilovsky, program director of the marketplaces program for The Kelsey Group - a research firm based in Princeton, New Jersey - says the acquisition should help more agencies buy local media and should expand the local marketplace.

The transaction closed on August 12, 2008. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Satellite Revenues Jump by Double Digits in Q4, Karmazin Says

Sirius XM Radio’s fourth quarter revenues are growing in the double digits; there should be no problem refinancing the debt due in 2009, chief Mel Karmazin told Reuters.

The company should manage to improve revenues next year, despite the recession,…

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Cox Enterprises Announces New Business Organization: Cox Media Group

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…

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Target Builds Snow Globe Effect as iPhone App

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…

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Cupid, Castles and NYPD Humor Come to ABC

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…

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News Media Less Effective at Conveying Ad Messages

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…

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FTC Approves New Telemarketing Rule

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…

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