18 Nov 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - HP has launched a $400m (£250m) global advertising campaign to tell customers that it does more than just make printers and PCs.
18 Nov 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - The New York Times Company said October advertising revenues rose by almost 4%, boosted by a strong performance at its flagship newspaper the New York Times and giving cause for further optimism in the US market.
18 Nov 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON – Investment Week and Bloomberg Money publisher Incisive Media is set to bid as much as £40m for business publisher Risk Waters, which lost 81 staff and conference delegates in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
18 Nov 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Five and BBC Two, traditionally UK terrestrial television's underdogs, increased their audience shares as other terrestrial stations lost ground to multichannel TV, according to the IPA's latest trends in television report.
18 Nov 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON - Taxi Promotions UK is backing the launch of a new monthly magazine Sherbet, aimed at passengers travelling by licensed taxi in London.
18 Nov 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Carlton Communications and Granada are lobbying the government to allow them to take control of Independent Television News.
LONDON – Lord Bell, chairman of troubled Chime Communications, is being told by bankers to move quickly to complete a deal to sell its advertising agency HHCL & Partners to WPP, which could see it push for a cash sale.
18 Nov 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON - US radio giant Clear Channel is understood to have drawn up plans to bid for Capital Radio, which could cost £500m, once the government relaxes media ownership laws.
18 Nov 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Ame, the non-alcoholic sparkling fruit juice drink from Britvic Soft Drinks, is following its print and cinema campaign with its TV advertising debut in the run-up to Christmas.
18 Nov 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Carlton Communications and Granada are almost ready to submit their arguments in favour of a proposed single ITV company to the Office of Fair Trading, moving the two closer to a £2.6bn merger.