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By Stephen Foster on February 29, 2012
ITV Boss Adam Crozier has delivered some of what he has been promising with 2011 profits up 14 per cent to £327m on a not-quite-so-exciting revenue increase of four per cent to £2.1bn. Hero of the hour is ITV Studios, now run by highly-paid former Channel 4 programme chief Kevin Lygo. Non-advertising revenue was up [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged ad revenue, Adam Crozier, Andrew Davies, apple, Archie Norman, downton abbey, Fru Hazlitt, google, internet tv, itv, itv player, itv studios, Kevin Lygo, mr selfridge, online, production revenue, stv, utv media
By Stephen Foster on November 14, 2011
First the good news: ITV is slightly ahead of last year’s (good numbers) thanks to ads in programmes like X Factor and Downton Abbey and the strong autumn performance of the Rugby World Cup (which only happens every four years of course). And the UK’s biggest free-to-air broadcaster is being run like a proper company [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, digital sales, downton abbey, facebook, friends reunited, Fru Hazlitt, google, itv, itv.com, myspace, profits, rugby world cup, Simon Daglish, X-Factor, yahoo
By Stephen Foster on March 2, 2011
ITV made £320m in pre-tax profits in 2010 and, more crucially, managed to reduce its debt from £612m to £188m and pension deficit from £436m to £313m. Even better for the dynamic duo of CEO Adam Crozier and chairman Archie Norman (and shareholders of course) it now has £860m in cash and ‘cash equivalents’ sitting [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, all3media, Archie Norman, downton abbey, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, itv, Kelly Williams, Michael Grade, Simon Daglish, Steve Morrison
By Stephen Foster on December 31, 2010
If it carries on like this they’ll be kicking the corgis next at that big house at London SW1A 1AA (there’s an address for you). Buckingham Palace spokespeople (Private Eye occasionally imagines one called Sir Alan Fitztightly) are still trying to persuade us to call Prince William’s intended Kate Middleton (or ‘waity Katie’ as she [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Catherine, downton abbey, Jim Pickard, Kate Middleton, Prince Charles, Prince William, sir alan fitztightly, The Queen, upstairs downstairs, Wills
By David O'Reilly on November 29, 2010
Ominous developments for advertisers this week with the news that both YouTube and SeeSaw, the UK video-on-demand service, are launching services that allow viewers to switch off advertising during programmes or to choose which commercials they wish to watch. YouTube is releasing a new ad unit called TrueView, which will provide viewers with a choice [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged advertising, Agencies, BBC, Channel 4, downton abbey, Five, itv, SeeSaw, X-Factor, Youtube
By Stephen Foster on November 17, 2010
That’s not quite true, shareholders will be pleased that the price is up nearly 50 per cent year on year and that the company has reported an 11 per cent rise in revenues for the first nine months of 2010 (to £1.45bn), driven almost wholly by increased advertising (up 16 per cent in the third [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, Archie Norman, downton abbey, itv, Kevin Lygo, Peter Fincham, Simon Cowell, X-Factor
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