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On a constant currency basis, total billings were up 5.7pc to £22bn, but the growth was wiped out by converting international business into sterling

On a constant currency basis, total billings were up 5.7pc to £22bn, but the growth was wiped out by converting international business into sterling

“We will definitely not be going digital-only, there is a role for a print product. Not everyone wants to live their life digitally”. So says Andrea Vidler , CEO of Centaur. For the full interview read The Guardian

TalkSport owner UTV Media’s pre-tax profits jumped more than 60% to £10m in the first half, thanks to a World Cup ad spend boost and an improving economy. For the full story read The Guardian

European media companies are committing hundreds of millions of dollars to investing in digital start-ups, as they look for ways to diversify away from stalling growth in their core businesses

DMG Media and Trinity Mirror have recently revealed figures showing spectacular digital advertising revenue leaps

In another telling signal that the global ad expansion may be running out of steam, a global tracking study of the confidence of marketers to increase their budgets declined to one of its lowest recent points in August

Tyler Brûlé is maddening. He was the lauded creator of urban design bible Wallpaper when print was still the hottest thing. Now, he is fast building a media brand based around – of all things – a 300-page printed magazine about global politics, travel, ….

f the increase in programmatic trading leads to standard ad formats becoming “too commoditised” there’s a risk publishers will ditch them in favour of more content-led advertising, according to Dennis Publishing’s head of digital sales Gary Rayneau, in an interview with The Drum

In the second quarter of the current financial year, Axel Springer’s operating results continued the growth trend of the first three months, thanks in large part to consistently strong growth in its digital activities.

While Amazon and Hachette’s contract battle drags on in the U.S., a similar fight is taking place in Germany between Amazon and book publisher Bonnier

Banner ads account for a small 4% of mobile ads run by entertainment brands, as the market moves towards rich media formats to compliment the growing consumption of video thanks to smartphone technology

Since launching in the UK on March 27th, Readly, the digital platform allowing subscribers access to numerous UK magazines for a single monthly subscription, has added a further 25 titles from 12 publishers

Global ad spending will reach $534 billion in 2014 — a 4.5% increase over 2013, according to GroupM’s latest forecast, issued today

The Week appears to be a traditional magazine. It’s full of words, pictures, thoughts and opinions printed on paper, that are accompanied by lots of lovely full-page advertising

The Week appears to be a traditional magazine. It’s full of words, pictures, thoughts and opinions printed on paper, that are accompanied by lots of lovely full-page advertising

The decision to allow digital editions of magazines to be included in the mix at the start of the year helped to avoid the double-digit blood baths of previous reports

Booming sales of the Economist’s digital edition (up 72% YoY) has helped it leapfrog Private Eye to the overall number one spot among news magazines in, although the satirical title’s remains pre-eminent in print

As publishers continue to search for alternative revenue streams from the internet and digital products, the Audit Bureau of Circulations said on Thursday sales of the hundreds of paid-for weekly and monthly titles fell 4.4% compared with the previous six months. For the full story read The Guardian

Company magazine launched in 1978 is to cease print publication. Its owner, Hearst Magazines, is to turn it into a digital-only publication from October 2014