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MediaPost LondonBlog: According to eMarketer’s figures, the one in five who will be blocking ads this year will rise to just over one in four (27%) next year. This means that while one in ten were blocking just over a year ago in 2014, it will be one in four just three years later. Government was spot on to label ad-blocking software a modern-day protection racket. Any tech that blocks ads on sites unless the publisher pays to be whitelisted is very accurately described as a protection racket

The strength of the U.S. dollar continued to suppress revenue growth at Omnicom Group in the first quarter: revenues worldwide were up just 0.9% to about $3.5 billion. The company said currency fluctuations in the first quarter cost it about $97 million in top line growth. Organic growth, which excludes the impact of currency fluctuations, acquisitions and asset sales, was better — up 3.8% globally and 4.5% in the North America market, which accounts for 61% of the company’s business

World’s third largest advertising group sees growth in first quarter after structural shake-up

Netflix will hit 100m subscribers “some time next year”, according to chief executive Reed Hastings, after the digital home of Daredevil and Orange is the New Black reported its best ever quarter, aided by expansion into 130 new markets

Amazon is to offer video streaming of exclusive shows such as Transparent and The Man in the High Castle as a standalone service in the US for the first time as it tries to make up ground on Netflix

Magazines are not suffering anything like the circulation declines experienced by newspapers, according to one of Britain’s leading magazine chiefs. Nicholas Coleridge, president of Condé Nast International, told a Media Society event earlier this week that although magazine sales were “off their top” it was “only by a small amount”.

IDG properties drew a record-breaking 194.9 million unique visitors for February 2016, propelling it to be the #1 technology publishing company in the world, according to comScore

Publisher sees opportunity for the NYT to become an ‘indispensable leader in global news and opinion’ over the next three years

Disrupters are innovating at a scale that most other companies can only dream of

In the UK, digital spend grew 16.4 per cent last year to over £8.6 billion, with 78 per cent of this rise accounted for by mobile spend

Press Release: As part of the Sunday Times Profit Track 100: Private Companies with the fastest growing profits – Dennis Publishing is proud to announce that it has made The Sunday Times Top 10 Rising Companies list for the first time

Amazon is in talks with British broadcasters to add their channel brands and programmes to its streaming service, as it gears up to use Jeremy Clarkson as the spearhead of an attack on the pay-TV market

Online news network figures raise questions about very high valuations put on new media groups

Independent integrated agency Four Communications Group (Four) has been named no.73 in the Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100 league table, which ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing profits over the latest three years

Flashes&Flames: Kevin Hand, a controversial and influential leader in the UK magazine market for almost 30 years, has died in London after a short illness. He was aged 64

An attempt by FTSE 100 publisher Relx to strip the Dutch magazine Elsevier of its name has triggered a backlash from the publication’s journalists and an unlikely coalition of Dutch business grandees

Specialist healthcare consumer exhibition organiser f2f events has announced the launch of Kinderwunsch Tage, a show aimed at providing information on fertility treatments for people who want to have children

US newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal are raising the alarm over new ad-blocking software that promises to replace publishers’ advertisements with its own and pay readers in bitcoin to view them

Extract from In Publishings coverage of News Works last month written by Ray Snoddy: Bob Hoffman, a contrarian ad blogger and former advertising agency owner in San Francisco, attacked, what he called, the delusions of his industry, some causing considerable damage to traditional media. Hoffman, author of Marketers are from Mars, Consumers are from New […]

physical appearance to wreak havoc in the real world is a fallacy. Best example: online advertising. ANA and White Ops have conducted their second study on ad bots