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'Mail Online' Outlines Global Expansion Plans
The Guardian
Associated Newspapers is aiming to expand Mail Online, with reporters on the Daily Mail briefed that the online operation is hoping to open new bureaux in Toronto, Delhi and Sydney - and possibly a Spanish-language service. Print reporters were told about the digital expansion by the Daily Mail news editor, Ben Taylor, last week and were told that there would be opportunities to transfer to the web news operation. They were also told that Associated wants to beef up its operations in London, New York and L.A., where 70 staff are already employed to churn out a fast and furious supply of picture-led celebrity stories alongside a steady diet of breaking political, crime and human interest news.
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Group M Foresees TV, Press Revenue Slump
The Guardian
Despite any windfalls generated by Euro 2012 and the London Olympics, Sir Martin Sorrell's Group M estimates that TV and press advertising revenues will fall by more than GBP350 million in the UK during 2012. However, the slump in print and broadcast will be more than offset by a boom in digital advertising, according to the media buying network. Group M slashed its forecast for TV ad revenue growth this year from 3% to 0.1% - and says that national newspapers will suffer sharper than previously predicted falls in spending. In December Group M forecast TV ad revenue to come in at GBP3.56 billion, but it has now stripped more than GBP70 million from that prediction.
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Now For Something Different: Digital Goes Print
Press Gazette
A new free print magazine is for youngsters will be published in Sunderland later this month - five months after it launched as an e-magazine in February. Spark Magazine is a partnership between community media project Spark Sunderland, which is run by volunteers and students from around the city, and advertising and printing is managed by Johnston Press daily the Sunderland Echo. Spark Sunderland said 6,000 copies of the magazine will be printed six times a year and distributed around the city. The first print issue is being launched to coincide with the Sunderland International Airshow on 20 July.
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Google Offers To Appease Europe -- Or Does It?
GigaOm
Late on Monday, Bobbie Johnson reports, just before the expiration of a deadline imposed in May by the European Commission, news hit that Eric Schmidt had sent a letter to the EC competition chief Joaquin Almunia. "In it, he is said to have responded to a number of questions about Google's behavior in the search market - offering what is described as a "settlement offer." Sounds like a step forward, right? But hang on a minute: this is complicated stuff. So let's try parsing this for a second."
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Manchester To Get Pop-up Radio Station On Digital Day
Media Week
A new digital radio transmitter will be turned on on 4 July. Around 250,000 more people in Manchester will be able to listen to DAB radio, which will reach 90% of households in the area. To highlight the expansion, Key 103's digital frequency will be rebranded to Key 103D and will air 20-minutes of exclusive digital-only content every hour, including live tracks from Ed Sheeran and Jessie J. Manchester Digital Day will be promoted on-air throughout this week and will offer listeners the chance to win Roberts Elise digital radios or to have their workplace fitted out with digital radios.
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Forecast: Sales From Interactive TV To Explode
Computer Business Review
As Google announces their interactive TV service will be available outside the United States for the first time, research commissioned by eBay reveals that one in four Britons will actively participate in interactive viewing for tasks like shopping. The report shows that direct retail sales from Interactive TV will see an increase to nearly GBP750 million by 2014 compared to GBP54 million in 2011. Interactive TV can provide an opportunity for retailers to try a new way to engage with customers. As online use through television continues to grow, retailers will need to adjust their online content to fit interactive TV like adding more videos, graphics, and animations.
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Social Media Changing Ways Of Expression
Red Rocket Media
Using shorter, sharper language on sites like Facebook and Twitter is making young women seem 'aggressive'. Reported by thedrum.co.uk, research from the Plain English Campaign found that the fast paced communication between users means that teenagers have less time to deliberate over their word choice, meaning their social media content tends to be much more adapted or 'bite-size'. The outcome of this has been much more noticeable in girls than boys as the former communicates frequently on Facebook, Twitter and emails, claims the research.
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