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 June 30, 2011
Ruperr Murdoch’s 81st year could be more significant than any of the others in the media industry veteran’s long and contentious career as boss of News Corporation. Today he’s agreed to sell his social media site MySpace (acquired for $580m back in 2005) to US company Specific Media for just $35m. As recently as 2007 [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, culture secretary, facebook, Jeremy Darroch, Jeremy Hunt, Justin Timberlake, myspace, news corporation, Rupert Murdoch, sky news, special dividend, specific media, takeover bid
By Stephen Foster on January 25, 2011
New ITV marketing boss Fru Hazlitt has been telling the Financial Times (registration required) how she intends to “wean” ITV away from its reliance on 30-second commercials (“hideously cyclical”) and make it the UK’s pre-eminent “marketing platform.” This apparently means boosting its online offer, securing partnerships with the likes of Facebook and encouraging more advertiser-funded [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged advertiser funded programming, facebook, financial times, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, gcap, Kelly Williams, myspace, online sales, Simon Daglish
By Stephen Foster on December 1, 2010
Poor old MySpace, it’s like a patient in the terminal illness ward that has defied the best efforts of even the most expensive medics. Now News Corporation COO Carey Chase, who seems to be discussing News issues quite freely these days, has admitted that News would consider a sale or a partnership with the likes [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged AOL, Carey Chase, facebook, James Murdoch, myspace, news corporation, Rupert Murdoch, yahoo
By Angie Dean on August 13, 2010
The mighty Facebook is set to blast through the $1bn ad barrier this year with researcher eMarketer predicting ad revenue of $1.38bn, way ahead of News Corporation’s struggling MySpace on $347m. Next year Facebook should exceed Yahoo’s $1.6bn while MySpace is viewing a further decline to $297m. Facebook is now a “core buy for brand [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged facebook, Mark Zuckerman, myspace, Rupert Murdoch, yahoo
By Staff on June 18, 2010
Just about everything judging from recent events. Co-president Jason Hirschhorn is on his bike just five months after being appointed with Mike Jones (who’s staying) to take over from Owen Van Natta. And in just two weeks Google has to decide whether or not to renew its $900m search deal with the Murdoch-owned social network [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Bebo, facebook, google, Joel Hirschhorn, myspace, news corporation
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