MediaCom scoops GMG Radio account
19 Dec 2007 | by Fiona Ramsay
LONDON - MediaCom has won the GMG Radio account to handle the media buying for its 13 UK stations.
LONDON - Bizarre magazine editor Alex Godfrey has been appointed controller of video-sharing TV and online community, SUMO.tv.
LONDON - MediaCom has won the GMG Radio account to handle the media buying for its 13 UK stations.
LONDON - Independent producer Bullseye Television is expanding its online TV presence on Joost, and is in talks with an unnamed mobile phone operator to launch a Braindead mobile TV channel. The mobile service will feature shorter versions of the programming available to Joost users.
LONDON - TNS has won the contract to measure TV audiences for industry ratings body Barb, taking over the contract from AGB Nielsen.
LONDON - Complaints from viewers against the first betting ad to appear on TV have been rejected by the Independent Council of the Advertising Standards Authority.
LONDON – Reuters plans to seal several partnerships with media owners next year to build on the momentum of the launch of a co-branded daily world business report with the International Herald Tribune.
LONDON - Blinkx, the video search engine, has announced a partnership with production company Handmade TV to offer a range of cookery-themed programming on its service.
LONDON - Channel 4 is to broadcast the first episode of the new series of drama Shameless on social network MySpace before transmission on C4.
LONDON - TVCatchup, the soon-to-launch website billing itself as an online video recorder, has hired WPP ad sales house 24/7 Real Media to sell ads around the service.
LONDON - BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, is beefing up its presence on video-sharing website YouTube, with the addition of celebrity interviews from Michael Parkinson.