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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.

Hunt lobbied Cameron on News Corp's behalf

Maisie McCabe — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:35:00 GMT

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt made private representations to prime minister David Cameron on behalf of News Corporation's bid for BSkyB in the weeks before being handed responsibility for the merger, it has emerged.

Gardeners' World magazine prepares scratch-and-sniff edition

Nick Batten — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Immediate Media is to publish a special scratch-and-sniff edition of its monthly title Gardeners World on Friday (25 May).

Europe instructs Google to offer search dominance remedies

Sarah Shearman — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:28:00 GMT

Google has been given a "matter of weeks" by the European Commission to offer remedies to concerns about its dominance of the search market "for the benefit of competition and innovation in the sector".

Sony partners Blinkx to expand video content

Matthew Chapman — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:35:00 GMT

Sony has partnered with video search engine Blinkx to give users of its internet-enabled home entertainment devices easy access to high quality video content.

PPA Conference: Tablets are a 'means for survival', says Future chief

Sarah Johnson — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:50:00 GMT

Mark Wood, chief executive, Future Publishing, speaks to Media Week about readers' increasing preference for paying for content on a tablet, rather than on a website.

WWE hands Collective its display and video ad sales account

Matthew Chapman — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:10:00 GMT

Wrestling organisation WWE has appointed Collective to handle UK ad sales for both online display and video, as it moves its strategy more towards video content.

FT's HTML5 web app hits two million users in 10 months

Sarah Shearman — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:05:00 GMT

The Financial Times' part-paywalled HTML5 web-based app has reached two million users, 10 months after launch, according to the business publisher.

Hiscox becomes first UK brand to use AdCastPlus platform

Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:20:00 GMT

Hiscox, the specialist insurer, is the first UK brand to use Klaustech's new ad format, AdCastPlus, which allows online ads to stay present on the side of a web page, even when a user scrolls down.

My Media Week: Sean King

Mike Fletcher — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:23:00 GMT

This week Sean King, chief executive of publisher Seven, is driven mad by his teenage daughters' taste in music, works his way through the new battleground of content and takes some old school time out at L'Escargot.