Media AM - Blinkx losses sound alarm bells for those in online advertising, plus UTV Media; Viacom; MEC

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20th May 2015

Blinkx losses sound alarm bells for those in online advertising News that Blinkx, the video advertising company, posted a pre-tax loss of $25 million this week for the year to the end of March 2015, should raise alarm bells for those in the online advertising business. UTV to create broadcast centre for new channels UTV Media, the owner of TalkSport Radio, is creating a new broadcast centre as part of plans to launch four new national radio stations at the beginning of next year. Viacom launches commercial innovation group Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), home to MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Channel 5, has formed a commercial innovation group to help advertisers create customised, content-led digital and social campaigns. My Media Week: Craig Nayman This week, Craig Nayman, chief commercial officer, Archant, spies local opportunity in the Championship play offs. An industry of rising stars It's hard enough breaking into the business, let alone racing up the ladder in only a few years. Here, three of media's hottest talents reveal how they did it. MEC appoints first head of programmatic strategy MEC has appointed Martin Beauchamp, a solutions engineer at AppNexus, as its first head of programmatic strategy. M/SIX aims to future-proof with programmatic buying approach M/SIX is launching a programme to work on new ways to develop programmatic buying. M&S posts first rise in annual profits in four years Marks & Spencer has turned a new corner, reporting its first increase in profit since 2011. The emergence of Modal Britain Thirty years ago, Britain was divided along class lines - yet the seeds of today's modern mass market were being sown. The emergence of Modal Britain, the new mainstream, has totally reshaped the British class system - so why haven't advertisers caught up? Tony Regan from Trinity Mirror Solutions explores. Digital Cinema Media launches inaugural industry awards Digital Cinema Media has launched an awards scheme to recognise the best in cinema advertising over the past year, across five categories.   100% viewable mobile ads debut for the first time In the same year Media Week was born, Millennial Media offers advertisers a 100% viewability guarantee for in-app mobile advertising campaigns, an industry first.   Presented by MILLENNIAL MEDIA Are we two nations now? "I want to bring our country together, our United Kingdom together... to reclaim a mantle that we should never have lost: the mantle of one nation, one United Kingdom." London Live chief executive: 'We can't keep propping it up' The days of Evgeny Lebedev's government-backed local television experiment, London Live, could soon be numbered, as its chief executive admits it is has been ring fenced from the rest of the group and placed under "constant review". The rise and fall of a media giant From humble beginnings, MediaWeek's former publisher Emap went on to become 'one of the most admired media companies in the world'. Here, Colin Morrison recalls how it got there, and the collapse that was to follow Bus ads don't need naked women to get noticed Another week, another misguided attempt to use a naked woman and inappropriate innuendo to sell something. This time, it's bus fares. How magazines have turned over a new leaf From printed page to web page, the medium has been reinvented, says Immediate Media's Tom Bureau. David Emin solves your dilemmas Media's favourite agony uncle returns to these pages after a five-year absence to dispense more life lessons Fifa sponsors under pressure to speak out on Qatar Fifa's sponsors are being pressured once more to speak out on working conditions in Qatar, as campaigners equate conditions at the 2022 World Cup sites to "slavery". Latest blogs Print pessimism be gone: How Harry Potterfication can reinvigorate publishing Anyone else bored of hearing that print is dying? It's almost as boring as the assertion that "this is the year of mobile" - it's time to change the conversation says Blippar's Jessica Butcher. Why programmatic is not killing creativity Since the advent of programmatic buying, there has been much debate about whether digital advertising is moving towards an era of man versus machine. Was the value of the election poster realised? As the dust settles on the 2015 General Election, Primesight's commercial director Chris Forrester focuses in on the real question of posters. Cinema advertising is at the top of its game Last month's AA/Warc report stated that UK advertising spend grew by 5.8% in 2014, its highest rate since 2010 and for cinema even more exciting times lie ahead, says Karen Stacey, chief executive of Digital Cinema Media (DCM). 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