MediaDailyNews
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
  • Havas Ups Acquisitions, Doubles Stake In Creston

    Havas has made a number of high-profile acquisitions this year. The latest: the Paris-based ad holding company has doubled its stake in London-based marketing … Read the whole story

  • Huge Launches Togather To Help Authors Promote Books

    Huge, the IPG-owned agency, blames the digitization of the book industry for the failure of publishers to promote most of its author roster. As … Read the whole story

  • Turner Broadcasting Buys The Bleacher Report Site

    Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting unit has bought sports site the Bleacher Report. BleacherReport.com, with 10 million unique visitors per comScore and a special emphasis … Read the whole story

  • Titan Signs First Airport Partner

    Titan has signed up its first airport partner, with a five-year contract for the exclusive right to sell advertising in Westchester County Airport in … Read the whole story

  • WashPo Revs: TV Uptick, Newspaper Declines Reduce Totals

    The second quarter brought no relief for the newspaper business, judging by major publishers' weak earnings results. The Washington Post Co. announced that total … Read the whole story

  • Olympics Viewership Scores Cross-Platform

    After dipping a bit in viewership toward the end of the first week of its London Olympics coverage, NBC picked up the pace on … Read the whole story

  • Mediacom Video Subscribers Down 9%

    Mediacom's video subscribers dropped 9% in the second quarter, while broadband subscribers jumped. So did ad revenues, though at a modest pace in a … Read the whole story

  • National CineMedia Revs Slip, Predicts Better Q3

    Cinema advertisers had a mediocre second quarter, with National CineMedia, the largest cinema ad network in the U.S., seeing total revenues slip 3.4% from … Read the whole story

  • Zel Named El Rey CEO

    El Rey Network, the English-language cable channel targeting young Hispanics, has tapped former Telemundo executive Antoinette Alfonso Zel as CEO in advance of its … Read the whole story