An extensive new study, covering 19,000 consumers and 153 senior decision makers from global retailers has been released today by payment processor WorldPay.

According to a blog post by Mark Kleinman, City editor at Sky News, which does not appear to have been widely reported elsewhere, a “clutch of prominent City financiers is in talks to back the launch of a Sunday tabloid newspaper aimed at sating an appetite for salacious celebrity gossip that was once met by the News of the World.”

A chart from Business Insider today – via analyst Chetan Sharma – shows mobile to be the most pervasive technology ever invented.

Specific Media has boosted its VOD credentials with the hiring of Graeme Hutcheson as Head Of Video.Hutcheson is currently Associate Director, Futures & Implementation at MediaCom, where he oversees MediaCom’s buying and planning activity in VOD and explores commercial opportunities across new broadcast platforms. Initially he joined MediaCom as a Buying Manager, heading up TV… Continue reading Hutcheson Leaving Mediacom for Specific

Investment bank Morgan Stanley believes that BSkyB will report around 10,000 new pay television subscribers and 140,000 new high definition customers when it announces its third-quarter financials on Wednesday.This would take total TV subscribers to 10,260,000, with 4,203,000 subscribers to the Sky Plus HD service.BSkyB is expected to launch a number of new services in… Continue reading Formula 1 expected to have boosted Sky HD subs

Freeview looks likely to go head to head with YouView by launching a backwards electronic programme guide.

Warc has released its latest Consensus Ad Forecast today, which shows the US ad market receiving the largest upgrade in forecast growth (4.1% this year, a rise of +0.8pp from the January forecast) of the 13 markets measured by the research.

Aegis today announced a trading update for the first quarter of 2012, from 1 January 2012 to 31 March 2012, with total group revenue for the first quarter up 16.3% on 2011 in constant currency.

In light of the recent announcement that News International will launch the Sun on Sunday this weekend, Newsline gathered thoughts from two leading media agencies.

Speaking to MediaTel Newsline this morning, Alan Brydon, head of investment at MPG Media Contacts, and a former advertising sales director of the Evening Standard, says that the launch timing has caught everyone out, but he expects a strong product, which will turn in a profit – to the detriment of other titles in the sector…