“We started talking to people about their [media] information gaps … and they said you must be joking, we’re overloaded with information!”
(Paul Flatters)

EXCLUSIVE A special in which four specialists cover some hot topics in media and advertising. Nick Mawditt tells us how business cable channel CNBC Europe is successfully adjusting to the new media landscape with the aim of becoming “media neutral”. Philip Preston and Paul Flatters see a bright future for local newspapers despite dangerous declines in national newspaper circulation. And Sarah Pearson reveals an ethnographic study that pours cold water on the notion that PVR (personal video recorder) users skip advertising – say what?
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Recorded live at the Euro MR Event 2006
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“When you’re in a revolution there are only two sides…and the side that wins is the one going forward…buying into the modern world”
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In this thought-provoking chat, Dan O’Donoghue tells Olaf Willoughby why the end of advertising agencies is nigh, why planners should return to their roots as consumer champions, and why researchers shouldn’t expect guidance from ad. agencies during this time of media flux
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GUEST Ian Wright, MD, OTX Europe
TOPICS From $0 to $3m turnover in 9 months; the consumer appetite for video downloads and implications for the movie industry; the first free legal music download service; MR industry letting down graduate trainees; virtual reality research; validating the link between emotive advertising and strong brands
NOTABLE MENTIONS AOL, BMRB, (Sony) Bravia, David Brandt, Disney, Honda, IPSOS, MRS Conference, Robert Heath, RSL, Shelley Zalis, Universal Music
Music 2006 Pl@stic Soul and Geoff Smith from the PMN
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Joseph Jaffe, the innovative marketing thinker, is the author of Life After the 30-second Spot in which he passionately argues for marketers and advertisers to embrace the more imaginative and engaging techniques in an era of media fragmentation and consumer generated media
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“I think we’ll see over the year the testing of all-you-can-eat data packages [from the mobile operators]…so that I’m not going to get surprised by a big data bill.†(Simon Andrews)

What’s the state of mobile advertising? And will 2006 prove to be a tipping point as the major players invest more heavily in experimentation and infrastructure?
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TV advertising is gradually becoming sidelined by marketers as doubts grow over it’s effectiveness. In this podcast, we hear from a broadcaster who’s using innovative research to improve its effectiveness
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