12 Dec 2003
| by Jeremy Lee
The AAR has cut its annual fee from media agencies following a poor year for new-business leads....The volume of media reviews handled by the matchmaking company has been hit by competition from media auditors and the economic downturn.
This year, the service has handled relatively small ...
on this year."
However, Paul Phillips, the company's director of media and advertising services, said the AAR ...
12 Dec 2003
| by Jeremy Lee
The AAR has cut its annual fee from media agencies following a poor year for new-business leads....The volume of media reviews handled by the matchmaking company has been hit by competition from media auditors and the economic downturn.
This year, the service has handled relatively small ...
on this year."
However, Paul Phillips, the company's director of media and advertising services, said the AAR ...
12 Dec 2003
| by Alasdair Reid
Are we heading for a duopoly and should media buyers be worried about a non-ITV sales house?...that in reality, nothing has really changed? Bob Wootton, the director of media and advertising of ISBA, says it ...
?"
Good questions. The one exception ISBA would make would be if Scottish Media Group (which owns STV ...
.
But Jim Marshall, the chairman of the IPA's media futures group, says we shouldn't lose sight of the most ...
12 Dec 2003
| by Jeremy Lee
Despite ITV Sales filling two of the three positions in its next tier of management, media agencies
12 Dec 2003
| by Alasdair Reid
the biggest job in UK media sales but also the biggest challenge - and agencies say he's got what it takes ...
at CDP and was a member of the renowned McCann-Erickson media department of the early to mid-80s), he ...
12 Dec 2003
| by Rhymer Rigby
of the rest of the media industry.
But these figures are not the whole story, otherwise it wouldn't be a ...
."
But beneath all the impressive-sounding headline figures and recent bullishness, many media commentators are pretty tepid about Star's prospects.
King Lai, the head of Initiative Media Asia, comments: "Star ...
12 Dec 2003
It takes a curmudgeonly atheist to get right to the heart of Christmas these days, so it should come as no surprise that Philip Pullman is getting the plaudits this year.
12 Dec 2003
| by Stuart Elliott is the advertising columnist at The New York Times
on TV election-night maps. Now there are signs that the country's media, long loath to appear...that deems itself to be scrupulously neutral, lost its lead in the ratings to Fox News, the media powers ...
of conservatives throughout the media, building on decades-long efforts by scores of right-of-centre newspaper ...
(if that is not redundant), who have long counted on the media's impartiality to balance ...
12 Dec 2003
| by Rachel Gardner
Banks Hoggins O'Shea/FCB handles above-the-line advertising for Ladbrokes' core online gaming business. Pure Media and TCS Media share Ladbrokes' media buying account.
The international betting shop, which spends close to 3 million a year in the UK, is now believed to be looking for an agency ...
12 Dec 2003
In an advertising recession, the media owners showing the most vigorous signs of life are the ones that rely least on advertising. But even in a buoyant economy, Sky's achievements in 2003 would have seemed ...
anointed Media Achiever of the Year, Tony Ball, and the hullabaloo surrounding the appointment of a ...