The first six months of ‘08 were fairly eventful for media agency holding company Aegis: it made 14 acquisitions, as profits rose 16.7 percent on a constant currency basis to…

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While many other forecasters have been backtracking a bit on expectations for online ad spend growth this year, UK media shop Carat upped its forecast very slightly today. Back in…

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German audience measurement firm GfK appears to be withdrawing its bid for British research company Taylor Nelson Sofres, according to Reuters, which cited a story in Germany’s Manager magazine based…

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Usage of the mobile web data is gaining traction in the U.S. at such a rate that in the next month it will surpass the United Kingdom, which has long…

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Text messaging remains the most widely used data application in the UK, with 2007 revenues nearly three times the figures for data revenue. Regulator Ofcom revealed in its hefty annual…

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Digital royalties to composers, songwriters and music publishers have grown quickly since last year, while those from physical sales are still dropping off. Half-year results from the MCPS-PRS royalty collector…

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UK mobile games will make £80.5 million by 2012, Screen Digest research says. That’s £22 million more than last year. The majority of the market will come from the pay-to-download…

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The French are now downloading at least as many movies illegally as they are watching in cinemas, according to research. Anti-piracy movie group Alpa’s study found those there downloaded over…

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European VC investments in media and technology fell by a big 69 percent from Q1 to Q2, according to new LibraryHouse data. It was down from €330 million to €102…

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-- Telegraph.co.uk cuts: Does it say anything about the state of the advertising market that Telegraph.co.uk is shedding ad sales staff? MediaWeek says Telegraph.co.uk’s new online sales head Jeff Turner…

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-- ITV.com: ITV (LSE: ITV) already has a long tail of sorts on television - it’s called ITV3. But producers had withheld shows like Dempsey & Makepeace and On The…

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-- Mygazines: Little surprise here. Mygazines, a site that encourages magazine readers to scan and share pages from their favourite reads, is being dimly viewed by the Periodical Publishers Association…

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And you thought it was mostly Americans addicted to the SMS/IM/web presence thingamy… ? Web measurer Hitwise says it’s the reverse - at least, proportionally. “Last week the site’s share…

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-- Blinkx: Of the many press releases put out by video search site Blinkx (four so far today), one of the most significant is the announcement it is now making…

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In line with many other reports over the past few weeks focusing on the U.S., the U.K.’s ad market looks pretty dim too these days. The Institute of Practitioners in…

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As is par for the course nowadays, online ad spend was the sole shining light in a gloomy Q1 Bellwether report on the overall ad industry. Without it, main media…

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As expected, WPP Group is making a hostile bid for audience measurement firm Taylor Nelson Sofres, which has rejected the ad holding company’s three previous offers, Reuters reports. That in…

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-- EMI Music: EMI Group has enlisted the European head of Air Wick maker Reckitt Benckiser’s head, Elio Leoni-Sceti (pictured), to take the helm at its EMI Music recorded music…

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All it takes, conventional wisdom goes, for the big US social networks to overcome the European upstarts is to start offering themselves in languages other than English. So what exactly…

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The growth of online and mobile won’t stop the fall in music buying over the next few years, according to an eMarketer survey of published forecasts. The research aggregator says…

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UK online radio grew from 8.1 million weekly listeners in November to 9.4 million through April and May, according to Rajar‘s latest questionable poll (pdf). The number who have ever…

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Maybe free online music can give money back to the industry after all. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says digital licensing income from on-demand streaming services, including ad-supported offerings like…

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And you thought throngs of people would really “friend” your brand on MySpace? Half of all advertiser-branded social networking pages in Europe have fewer than 1,000 friends, new Jupiter research…

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Research by the University of Hertfordshire for industry body British Music Rights confirms what we suspected and paints a dire picture for those still trying to make money out of…

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UK internet advertising spend rose 39.5 percent in 2007 to £3.02 billion, according to the Advertising Association - that’s more than the £2.81 billion estimated by the more commonly accepted…

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