Global adspend will rise by more than 5% this year according to GroupM, the media arm of WPP Group, although the company has revised down its projections due to financial instability in many markets.In its latest biannual "This Year, Next Year" report,...

Broadcasters in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and South Korea, among other Asian markets, have snapped up series and specials from the A+E Networks portfolio. ...

 Ramez Sheikh, most recently with The Walt Disney Company, is joining Universal Networks International as its VP of network development and distribution for the Asia-Pacific region. ...

GroupM has downgraded its global advertising spend forecast from 6.3% to 5.1% this year, with strong growth showing in digital but newspapers and magazines continuing a downward slide. ...

Global consumer confidence declined three index points to 91 in Q2 2012 amid a worsening euro zone crisis, lackluster U.S. job growth and China’s downward GDP revision for 2012, according to consumer confidence findings from Nielsen. ...

ABI Research forecasts that more than 50 percent of television homes in North America and Western Europe will have Internet-connected TV sets by 2017, up from just 10 percent last year, while Blu-ray player penetration is expected to rise to more than 76...

July 12 2012 - First, Viacom yanked its 19 channels -- including Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central -- from DirecTV after the two companies failed to agree on subscriber fees. Second a federal judge cleared the way for Aereo, an exciting new startup that...

July 12, 2012 - Even though DISH Network's introduction of an STB with an automatic ad-skipping feature has prompted a furious legal response, the function could become so popular with consumers that it may prove difficult to take away. ...

July 12, 2012 - Spending on advertising is on the rise around the globe and across media types, according to Nielsen, with television continuing to attract the majority of advertising dollars. ...

GLOBAL (July 12, 2012) - The boards of Dentsu and Aegis Group have announced an agreement on terms of a cash offer whereby Dentsu will acquire all Aegis stock for approximately £3.164 billion (US$4.9 billion), creating "a new global communications...