Econsultancy Says Profit Is Growing From Premium Memberships
The e-marketing analysis site and training service Econsultancy revealed to paidContent:UK: “We grew profits by around 70 percent last year.… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-30-11: Google In-App Payment Users; Tablets; Three
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google’s Android in-app payments service gets some early users — and maybe some confus… Read more »
Subscription And Ad Rates Slowing At Euromoney
“As expected, subscriptions, advertising and sponsorship revenues have all continued to grow at slower rates than those achieved in the firs… Read more »
RIM Confirms Android Apps For PlayBook As Shares Fall On Weak Outlook
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) this week finally gave a launch date and pricing for its much-anticipated PlayBook tablet, and the BlackBerry maker looks l… Read more »
INM’s O’Reilly Discovers The Digital World
Independent News & Media (INM), the Irish-based company that once owned The Independent and seemed less than enamoured with the interweb… Read more »
Telegraph Group Profits Up On Ad Rebound
Profits at Telegraph Media Group jumped 11% to almost £60m in 2010 thanks to a rebound in advertising markets and continuing cost savings f… Read more »
Print Downturn Held Back Digital Growth In 2010, Johnston Reckons
Johnston Press pulled just 3.2 percent more money from its news websites through 2010 – digital revenue hit £18.3 million, the company said… Read more »
Archant Reports ‘Digital Growth’ As Cuts Boost Profits
Profits up after cuts and non-specific allusions to digital growth.
East-England regional publisher says 2010 operating profit bounced up b… Read more »
Digital Marketing M&A Values Have Gotten ‘Frothy’, WPP Says
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In its 2010 interim earnings report on Friday, WPP says it will continue to buy digital marketing agencies: “Valuations remain reasonable, p… Read more »
Trinity Mirror: Profits Up, Revenues Down. Mulls Paid Content
Trinity Mirror’s acquisition of GMG Regional Media helped boost earnings for the UK publisher, but overall revenues were broadly flat and se… Read more »
Sleeping Giant ITV Admits To ‘Subscale Online Performance’
ITV (LSE: ITV) under Adam Crozier and Fru Hazlitt remains refreshingly honest, admitting again today its “performance online remains subscal… Read more »
Digital Growth Fuelled FT, Pearson Profit In 2010
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Pearson’s digital revenue grew 24 percent to £1.6 ($2.57) billion through 2010, including…
– FT paid digital subs:Â +50 percent to 20… Read more »
Record Customer Losses And Low ARPU: T-Mobile USA Needs Something Sticky
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In January, when T-Mobile’s top executives appeared before investors in New York, they laid out a strategy to add $3 billion more to the U.S… Read more »
Orange, T-Mobile JV Losing Customers; France Tel Says 2011 Outlook Stable
When France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile merged forces to become Everything Everywhere in the UK, the promise was for sc… Read more »
STV Ups 2012 Digital Target After Audience Growth
Scottish Channel 3 license holder STV is upgrading its 2012 digital sales targets after finding growing audiences for its new VOD and hyperl… Read more »
Centaur Finds Ads Returning, ‘Paid Content’ Clicking
The Lawyer and NMA publisher Centaur says paid content revenue, a new category comprising its circulation revenue and online subscriptions,… Read more »
WaPo’s Print Picture Improves Slightly, As Digital Grows Stronger
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Like most newspaper publishers last year, The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) was able to arrest the declines in revenue, though the print b… Read more »
Demand Media’s Rosenblatt Defends His Company’s Content
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) CEO Richard Rosenblatt used his company’s first earnings conference call as a public company in part to defend it a… Read more »
Demand Media Posts A Profit But Forecasts Losses Ahead
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Reporting its first quarterly results since going public in late January, Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) said its sales during its fourth quarter… Read more »
Shipping Data, Online Resellers Buoy Informa
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The data-heavy new intelligence service added last year by one of the industry’s B2B hallmark’s, shipping news journal Lloyd’s List, has gro… Read more »
Disney Interactive Media Group: The Turnaround Plan
The new chiefs at struggling Disney (NYSE: DIS) Interactive Media Group pledged to put the division in the black by 2013 at an investors con… Read more »
‘No Walled Gardens’: Virgin Media Sees TiVo As Cross-Platform Magic Glue
UK cable telco Virgin Media’s average customer take climbed to a record £47.51 ($76.61) per month in Q4 – but that could boom when it launc… Read more »
RBI Restructure Knocked A Fifth Off 2010 Revenue, No Variety Sale Plans
Variety and Farmers Weekly publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) says its Reed Business Information earned 19 percent less money through 2010,… Read more »
New Offerings Raise MSLO Digital Ad Revenue
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) didn’t have a great quarter, but digital, along with broadcasting, were bright spots. Digital ad… Read more »
Cablevision Gets Subscriber Boost From Bresnan Acquisition
Although Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) had been able to maintain its subscriber numbers over the past year, unlike many other MSOs, who were thoug… Read more »
Comcast Subscriber Losses Narrowed In Q4
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In the quarter before its merger with NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA) was complete, Comcast exceeded analysts expectations and also appeared to… Read more »
Yell Hell: The Struggle Against Search In Local Advertising
Yell Group’s CEO Mike Pocock said a strategy overhaul is coming this summer and imparted at length the logic behind his current digital plan… Read more »
Digital Is Now Outgrowing The Fast-Growers At Publicis
All the main ad companies regard digital and emerging markets as their two big growth pillars. But, as slides in Razorfish owner Publicis’ 2… Read more »
Future Says Online Growth Now Off-Setting Print Shrinkage
October-to-January digital ad revenue at magazine publisher Future was 25 percent up from the same period a year earlier.
Future says that… Read more »
Updated: Online And Job Ads Bounce Nationally, Sink Locally For DMGT
Associated Newspapers’ online revenue for the three months to January 2 was 73 percent higher than in the same period a year earlier, DMGT s… Read more »
Disney Interactive Revenues Surged As Segment’s Loss Widened
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All in all, The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company’s fiscal Q1 was solid, buttressed by strong performance at its cable networks, theme parks a… Read more »
TalkTalk Aims To Save £25 Million As Broadband Custom Shrinks
ISP and telco TalkTalk says it will cut 580 jobs to save £25 million this year, after seeing its Q3 revenue fall by £2 million from last y… Read more »
McClatchy’s Profits, Revenues Squeezed, Digital Provides Little Relief
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Although the general ad market has appeared to turnaround, helping newspapers publishers arrest the declines of the past few years, The McCl… Read more »
WMG Digital Revs Rose Weakly Amid Wider CD Sales Declines
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) didn’t get much of a boost from the all-too-important holiday season last quarter. There were, of course, the… Read more »
NYTCo’s Nisenholtz: Ongo Is ‘Hulu For News’
As the NYTimes.com prepares to unveil the full details for its metered paywall — in the words of CEO Janet Robinson, all will be revealed “… Read more »
Metro International Posts First Profit In Four Years
Metro International, the Swedish-based publisher of free daily newspapers in over 100 cities around the world, has made a profit for only th… Read more »
NYTCo Pins Revenue Decline On ‘Volatile’ Ad Market; About Stumbles
The crucial holiday season saw advertisers pullback from the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) in Q4, as the company pointed to a “volatile advertising mark… Read more »
Viacom Ad Gains Canceled Out By Lower Home Video Sales
Viacom’s cable properties benefitted from the advertising recovery of the past year, but lower DVD sales erased any of its gains in the last… Read more »
Vodafone: Tiered Data, Smartphones Drive Sales
A day after announcing a new chairman, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) reported a growth in revenue — and especially data revenue — after seeing reco… Read more »
BT Sees Broadband, TV Sign-Ups Strengthening
BT (NYSE: BT) had a good last quarter of 2010 on broadband and IPTV sign-ups…
BT Vision sign-ups doubled to 40,000 (highest for seven qua… Read more »
