The relaxation of the broadcasting code is starting to boost the coffers of UK radio, with revenues for sponsorship and promotions up 8.1% in 2012, according to new figures from the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB).
ISBA, the advertisers' trade body, has said a "behavioural merger remedy might be appropriate" in the merger of Global Radio and GMG Radio, in its submission to the Competition Commission.
A series of "wrong" decisions surrounding how much tax Starbucks pays in the UK has led the global coffee chain to become the latest brand to suffer in "the age of damage", according to Havas' global chief executive David Jones, and he believes Google and Amazon will be next.
The Mail, Express and Guardian fought against the ebbing newspaper market in November, but the Financial Times lost 3.9% of its circulation, according to the latest newspaper ABCs.
TV advertising has remained "remarkably stable" in the last 10 years, but media convergence offers broadcasters an opportunity to grow revenue, according to Channel 4's chief marketer, Dan Brooke.
26 Nov 2012
| by Ben Bold
A series of ads warning that state-imposed regulation of the press would mark an end to the freedom of the press has the backing of the press ahead of Lord Justice Leveson's anticipated recommendations on Thursday (29 November).
22 Nov 2012
PHD knew that CPR is one of those things people feel they should know, but don't, so the aim here was to remove any barriers to learning how to save someone's life.
Digital Cinema Media's (DCM) Picturehouse cinema brand has partnered with Barnardo's, the UK's largest children's charity, to launch an in-cinema campaign during the Christmas period.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations in the US has become the first member of IFABC to change its name in an attempt to better reflect the changes sweeping across the publishing business in the digital age, opting for the Alliance for Audited Media.
15 Nov 2012
What did the industry learn from the Twitter election, Alasdair Reid asks.