By Stephen Foster on December 3, 2012
Fairly fresh from losing over $500m on MySpace, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily, his much-trumpeted iPad newspaper. Rupert says: “From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fox, ipad newspaper, may space, news corporation, news of the world, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, the daily, Tom Mockridge
By Stephen Foster on June 27, 2012
Which looks like a pretty cunning plan. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is planning to hive off its troubled UK newspaper business into a separate company (along with its other papers like the Wall Street Journal), leaving its ‘entertainment’ assets – Fox, Star in Asia and, presumably, its various Sky TV businesses in a bigger, supposedly [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, company split, fox, news corporation, ofcom, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on May 2, 2012
Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly from their point of view, legislators on either side of the Atlantic and, possibly, Australia [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fit person, fox, James Murdoch, leveson inquiry, news corporation, news of the world, ofcom, one-eyed monster, over-mighty legislators, parliamentary committee, phone hacking, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, Sky Italia, star tv, the sun, the times
By Stephen Foster on February 8, 2012
Actor Clint Eastwood is used to dodging bullets in his movies (he always wins in the end of course) and now he’s taking some heavy flak from Republicans in the US for alleged pro-Obama sentiments in his Chrysler Super Bowl ad from Wieden+Kennedy. President Barack Obama bailed out most of the US auto industry (and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, chrysler, Clint Eastwood, democrats, detroit, fox, republicans, super bowl, us politics, wieden+kennedy ad
By Stephen Foster on January 25, 2012
WPP is launching JWT Jordan by way of a deal to buy 51 per cent of the assets of marketing communications firm IDEA. JWT has worked with IDEA for a number of years now and the company will be renamed JWT Jordan. This is the seventh mini-deal from so far this year by the ever-acquisitive [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, PR, Research | Tagged Burson-Marsteller, davos, deals, fox, grey, groupm, idea, jwt jordan, mec, mindshare, ogilvy, Sir Martin Sorrell, touch, unilever, WPP
By Stephen Foster on August 18, 2011
What you really don’t want in a long-running and damaging dispute is to fall out with various firms of lawyers you’ve hired but News Corporation seems in danger of doing so as two new law firms, Farrer & Co (the Queen’s solicitors) and Burton Copeland have been dragged into the phone hacking scandal. Both were [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, burton copeland, culture media and sport committee, elizabeth murdoch, farrer and co, fox, harbottle & lewis, James Murdoch, law firms, masterchef, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch, shine, the tudors
By Stephen Foster on July 25, 2011
Part of the Murdochs’ ‘defence’ to the UK Parliament’s culture, media and sport committee last week in the midst of the phone hacking scandal was that they were too busy to spend much time on a business – News International newspapers – that only produced one per cent of News Corporation’s vast profits. This, of [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated newspapers, bskyb, daily mail, fox, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, mail on sunday, News International, parliamentary committee, Paul Dacre, phone hacking, political influence, royal family, Rupert Murdoch, sky, the guardian, the news of the world, the sun, the sunday times, the times, Tony Blair
By Angie Dean on June 10, 2011
Google is lining up a deal to buy online display advertising company Admeld for around $400 million. Admeld allows publishers sell display ads in real time. When internet users arrive at a publisher’s website advertisers can bid to buy ad space from the publisher to show to that user through ad exchanges like Google’s DoubleClick. [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged admeld, Discovery, doubleclick, fox, google, hearst, idg, Michael Barrett ceo, online ad exchanges, publishers, real time trading, the weather channel
By Stephen Foster on May 31, 2011
The X Factor off stage is much more entertaining than on it, unless you’re an ITV executive wondering if your prize ratings winner is going to implode. Which is probably what ITV programme boss Peter Fincham is worrying about this morning as the UK’s biggest terrestrial broadcaster has had to rush out a Tweet (an [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged American Idol, black eyed pea, channel 5, Cheryl Cole, destiny's child, fox, Gary Barlow, itv, Louis Walsh, n-dubz, Paula Abdul, Peter Fincham, programme boss, ratings, richard desmond, Simon Cowell, sky, Will.I.Am, X-Factor
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