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The Sun plans Euros and Olympics assault

John Reynolds — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:14:00 GMT

The Sun is planning to up its print run by more than 100,000 copies during the Olympics, while also plotting to sell ten of thousands of copies of the tabloid in Poland and Ukraine during the Euro 2012 Football Championship.

Conde Nast offers advertisers tablet metrics

Nick Batten — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:30:00 GMT

Conde Nast is to provide advertisers with ad-specific metrics for its UK tablet editions, from June 2012 issues onwards.

RAB celebrates 20 years of championing commercial radio

Arif Durrani and Ben Hall — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:30:00 GMT

The success of commercial radio is a testament to the industry's drive and innovation, propelled in no small part by the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), which celebrates its 20th anniversary today.

The Economist develops ad network Ideas People

Daniel Farey-Jones — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:15:00 GMT

The Economist Group is building on its advertising network, Ideas People, to group together more than 60 websites trusted by The Economist readers, but which do not use cookies to target specific users.

Facebook valued at $104bn

Sarah Shearman — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:08:00 GMT

Facebook has priced its shares at $38 (£24) as it begins its stock market flotation, valuing the social network at $104bn (£65.8bn), making it one of the most valuable share sales in US history.

RAJAR Q1 2012: Reactions from the station owners

Maisie McCabe — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:40:00 GMT

Steve Parkinson of Bauer Media, Stuart Taylor from GMG, Absolute Radio's Clive Dickens, UTV's Scott Taunton and Jazz FM founder Richard Wheatly give their views on the latest audience figures from Rajar.

Metro leads cross-media partnership for Men In Black 3

Nick Batten — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:30:00 GMT

Metro, Spotify, Absolute Radio and Shortlist have partnered up for a competition campaign to generate buzz about Sony Pictures' 'Men In Black 3' film.

My Media Week: Ellie Edwards

Mike Fletcher — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:30:00 GMT

This week, Ellie Edwards, managing director at WPP performance marketing agency Quisma, catches up on her Sunday supplement reading, gets hiring at the rapidly expanding agency, and steals a go on her husband's iPad 3 birthday gift.

Rebekah Brooks brands hacking investigation 'expensive sideshow' and 'waste of public money'

Mark Banham — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:49:00 GMT

Former News international chief executive Rebekah Brooks has branded the investigation into phone-hacking at the News of the World that led to her being charged this morning with perverting the course of justice as "an expensive sideshow, and a waste of public money."

Former Channel 4 sales chief paid more than £500,000 in 2011

Daniel Farey-Jones — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:20:00 GMT

Channel 4 paid former commercial director Andy Barnes £511,000 in 2011, including consultancy services, while sales director Jonathan Allan took home £113,000 for three and a half months' work.