Exchange & Mart had a very small print circulation with barely 20,000 and falling, but its closure in print and move to online only publication is a story that is set to be repeated over and over this year. Quite how much is anyone's guess. With its position as a classified title the closure...
WPP's GroupM has reduced its forecast for headline UK internet ad growth dramatically from 20% to 4% for 2009. That's huge almost too huge. It does temper this by saying that some of the fall is due to a maturing internet market and not all is downturn related, but still. The radical predictions...
Writing in The Times today Sir Martin Sorrell makes his case for the economic bounce back coming sooner than other think (2009 he says) although the piece could have benefited from last minute editing regards India. The WPP chief executive plumps for 2009 as opposed to others saying 2010 or even 2011...
Rupert Murdoch has been putting the doomsayers of the newspaper industry in their place. The future he says is still bright, but it is in case you were in any doubt by now definitely online. In a speech he has knocked the doomsayers who are predicting the internet will kill off newspapers. He calls them...
Good piece in the New York Times today on how "the layoff will be blogged". It picks up on how this downturn is more public than any before it with bloggers covering not only each other's but their own departures as well. Oddly, and dispiritingly, some people are even reading about their...
