News for October 2003

Profits up at NTL

The company generated £555.2m in revenues during the three months to 30 September, up marginally on the previous quarter, helping it to stem losses.

• Oct 31, 2003
• Broadcast, Internet

Agence Virtuelle wins airline task

Swiss International Air Lines has recruited Agence Virtuelle to co-ordinate a search engine marketing campaign on Google, to extend across 14 European

• Oct 31, 2003
• Advertising, Internet

Online DVD service poaches former Blockbuster chief

Home entertainment "veteran" Heather Lawson joined Video Island this week as its VP of commercial and will focus on the supply chain and

• Oct 31, 2003
• Retail, Internet

Freeview heads for 2.5 million homes

The digital TV platform is now in about 2.1m UK homes and consumers have been buying set-top boxes at a rate of about 25,000 per week, though this figure has

• Oct 31, 2003
• Broadcast, Internet

WEEKLY COMMENT: Let's just call a speed a speed

Freeserve, while again showing its vast propensity to moan, raised a vaulable issue when it complained this week about Oftel's new broadband research review.

• Oct 31, 2003
• Broadband, Internet, Analysis

Postal strike pushes ScreenSelect into free offer

Online DVD rental service ScreenSelect has made its service free of charge following the Royal Mail postal strike, which is causing many problems for mail

• Oct 31, 2003
• Retail, Internet

AOL to show high-speed Kylie

AOL Broadband has announced that it is the official online media partner for Kylie Minogue's forthcoming concert at the Hammersmith Apollo, and plans to

• Oct 31, 2003
• Media, Internet

IAB and EIAA make up to launch new ad formats

Aimed at simplifying the process of booking media space for online media planners and buyers, as well as ad creatives, the initiative will hopefully lead to

• Oct 31, 2003
• Advertising, Internet

'Friends' unites with iTV

The new paid-for interactive service, the website's first foray into digital TV, has been designed to run in tandem with its online service, so that users do

• Oct 31, 2003
• Broadcast, Internet

New rural broadband site due next month

Rural dwellers will be able to access a new government-supported website aimed at helping them connect to the high-speed internet. Community Broadband UK is

• Oct 30, 2003
• Internet