UTV is kicking off plans to market Sport magazine globally, following the lead of sister radio station TalkSport. Sport magazine: set for international distribution The publisher has appointed Tim Hudson as international director to market Sport overseas. TalkSport won international broadcast rights for commentary of Premier League football matches earlier this month. Now Hudson will… [Read more…]
April 29, 2012
Twentieth Century Fox has signed a deal with Sky Media to run a social media ad on Zeebox for Ridley Scott‘s ‘Prometheus‘ at the same time as the film’s trailer airs on Channel 4. Prometheus: ad to air on Zeeboox as film’s trailer is shown on Channel 4 When the trailer airs on Channel 4,… [Read more…]
April 29, 2012
Rupert Murdoch has taken the stand at Leveson Inquiry for the second day, after admitting yesterday (25 April) that News Corporation’s shareholders would like him to “get rid of” all the company’s newspapers. Rupert Murdoch: News Corporation chairman appears at the Leveson Inquiry During his four hours of evidence to the inquiry yesterday, Murdoch, chairman… [Read more…]
April 12, 2012
Attitudes to user-generated content differ around the world, with Latin America leading the world for ‘citizen journalism’, according to new research. 47% of internet users in Brazil and 44% in Argentina read UGC on newspaper websites, compared to only 35% in the UK and 26% in Germany, according to the study from Kantar Media. The… [Read more…]
February 14, 2012
News International has provided an update on its two UK newspaper websites behind paywalls, to report 119,255 digital subscribers for The Times and 113,818 for the Sunday Times. News International reports 119,255 digital subs for The Times In further revelations, the publisher reported an average of 59,882 copies of The Times were downloaded daily on… [Read more…]
February 8, 2012
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, this time expanding out of Europe in to Latin America. The Dublin- and Rome-based company is buying Cidade Internet, a Brazilian portal which publishes 10 popular websites and other blogs inluding Fofocando, Automovel and Das… [Read more…]
February 6, 2012
News International, publisher of The Sun and The Times, has signed a seven-figure partnership deal with Global Radio, which will include at least six months of activity across a variety of stations such as Capital FM and Classic FM. Breakfast show duo: Dave Berry and Lisa Snowdon of 95.8 Capital FM London The deal has… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012
France’s nationa l La Tribune newspaper said Monday’s edition was its last daily print copy, as its owner’s sale to a regional publisher and an online ad group was announced. The pair – France-Economie-Regions and web group Hi-Media – will axe 115 of 165 staff, play up the paper’s website and revert to a weekly,… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
Jared Owens From: The Australian November 28, 2011 12:00AM The Huffington Post. Picture: AP Source: AP AUSTRALIAN writers should boycott The Huffington Post when its local operation launches, according to a US author. Jonathan Tasini, president emeritus of the New York-based National Writers Union, is among thousands of unpaid contributors attempting to recover a share… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
Beijing—government restrictions are driving young Chinese to turn off their TVS and turn on their computers. Advertisers and Western studios are right there with them. China’s streaming- video sites once were derided by the global entertainment industry as homes of stolen movies and television shows. But many sites have cracked down on piracy and are… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
The Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL) is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso for the launch this year of an Italian edition, paidContent has learned. The partnership, to be announced today, follows a pattern already in place for the French edition debuting Monday and for the Spanish edition due to launch in March: team up… [Read more…]
December 16, 2011
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Cork, Ireland-based wholesale e-book supplier ePub Direct is taking €1.3 ($1.69/£1.09) million in funding to grow its business supplying e-books to digital retailers. ePub supplies titles to 116 stores including Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Waterstones… [Read more…]
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