Shrinking Emap reflects B2B challenges

By May 8 2012, 5:37 pm Leave a comment

Ad spend for B2B magazines has plummeted by two-thirds in the last decade, from £1,022 million in 2001 to just £347 million in 2011

Inside Facebook UK: full stomachs and aspiration

By April 25 2012, 9:00 am Leave a comment

Marketers and rival media owners should be in no doubt as we edge ever closer towards the largest internet IPO in history; Facebook UK is open and ready for business

Should ABC carrot and advertiser stick control the press?

By March 30 2012, 8:30 am Leave a comment

The MPs suggestions amount to a serious step-change for our press industry, and if they’d been expressed in any other year, they would most likely have been dismissed for being too heavy-handed. Now there are concerns they don’t go far enough

Congrats to MEC, MediaCom, SMG, Mindshare and MPG

By March 19 2012, 11:27 am Leave a comment

So credit where it’s due to Steve Hatch, Karen Blackett, Stewart Easterbrook and Jed Glanvill, for managing to foster clear leadership and purpose in such a climate

Does success of The Artist support theory of mass intelligence?

By February 16 2012, 10:00 am 3 Comments

Lord Patten: “It’s a false dichotomy to say that the BBC must seek either to be popular or to be intelligent. It ought to be both.”

(C4) Abraham defies the gloom: Things are shaping up quite nicely

By January 27 2012, 9:00 am Leave a comment

Abraham: “Most importantly for 2012, our new director of sales Jonathan Allan has concluded very successful deals with all the major agencies, who are really embracing the thinking and the sharing of information that we’re starting to bring into these conversations.”

Ed Vaizey puts in the hours for radio and adland

By January 18 2012, 9:00 am Leave a comment

MP Ed Vaizey: “Video has not killed the radio star, and technology is not going to kill the radio star. Video technology is actually going to enhance the radio star… that’s why I’m a passionate fan about digital radio.”

Murdoch no longer sets the news agenda, Twitter does

By January 9 2012, 1:47 pm 4 Comments

The hold traditional media outlets like Rupert Murdoch’s have on setting the news agenda is increasingly being superseded by Twitter

Video didn’t kill the radio star, and nor has David Cameron

By December 22 2011, 9:47 am Leave a comment

‘In Q3, some 350 brands spent more than £60,000 on radio, the highest number on record, and a 10% rise over the same period in 2010′

Fru Hazlitt is right, most people are boring, says Sells (BBH)

By November 21 2011, 2:39 pm Leave a comment

Peter Sells: “Basically I agree with Fru,” [most people are boring]. I’m pretty boring, and so are almost all of my friends”

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