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[13matt13] 05/3/2014 10:08

"Digital ad growth about to offset print decline
GIDEON SPANIER Wednesday 05 March 2014


News websites and online publishers saw advertising soar 18 per cent in Britain last year, fuelling hopes that digital growth has reached a long-awaited tipping point where it will offset print decline.

Figures from the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) and consulting firm Deloitte show digital revenues grew at their fastest rate since the survey began in 2008 – thanks in large part to the mobile boom.

In a separate move, The Guardian said its digital revenues are set to rise more than 20 per cent to £70m in its financial year to March, helping net revenues rise "for the first time since 2008".

AOP said mobile usage is driving digital growth, with advertising on smartphones surging 60 per cent between September and December.

Once revenue from phone and tablet subscriptions is included, mobile revenues were up 80 per cent during the year. Video advertising was up 40 per cent.

Deloitte's media partner Howard Davies said the strong figures "demonstrate the ability of UK publishers to make money from mobile products and services". He added that he expects publishers to "experiment with innovative products and flexible pricing options to maximise this revenue stream" by using a mix of paid-for and free ad-funded models.

"Digital ad growth about to offset print decline

GIDEON SPANIER Wednesday 05 March 2014

AOP chairman, John Barnes, said the survey showed a "growing optimism for the financial prospects of the digital publishing industry".

Several publishers have signalled in recent months that digital revenues are compensating for print declines.

Daily Mail & General Trust's consumer arm, which owns the Daily Mail, reported underlying ad revenues in the first seven weeks of its financial year were up 1 per cent.

Meanwhile, Daily Mirror owner Trinity Mirror said underlying revenues fell just 1 per cent in the last two months of its financial year.

AOP's members include most major newspaper, magazine and online publishers, including The Independent."

[freddie ferret] 28/2/2014 16:59

Schemes of Arrangement seems to have been passed by the court.
Chill nowt to worry about!

[13matt13] 22/2/2014 10:59

This is what is helping the cause, not by keeping out of the media, I want to see a trial by media, the media can ask the questions that is the route to take to xpose these black arts that have been practised.

It has become a to hot a position within hibu to stay in for TB & that goes for the new board. The next target will be the faceless bondholders who are in control of hibu & its revenue & our money.




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[13matt13] 22/2/2014 09:56

This is what is helping the cause, not by keeping out of the media, I want to see a trial by media, the media can ask the questions that is the route to take to xpose these black arts that have been practised.

t has become a to hot a position within hibu to stay in for TB & that goes for the new board. The next target will be the faceless bondholders who are in control of hibu & its revenue & our money.




hxxp://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/media/article4012909.ece

[fatfish] 22/2/2014 07:42

Of course they will look at it, they are just hoping you can't find it. If no body comes forward they get clean away with it, so matt, get looking for it and don't let them off the hook so easily.

[freddie ferret] 21/2/2014 17:13

matt.

I am not sure who you are trying to convince. We know what we know. In the meantime you just get back to loony land and have fun while you still have the chance.

[13matt13] 21/2/2014 15:31

This Tuesday/Wedneaday should see the reigns of control pass to the new BOD.

The old board have not committed any crimes they have practised some dark arts in their dealings with all parties. but have all along taken legal representations & financial advise along the way. THey have worked closily with the goverment depts VC etc in crafting this new restructured company.

I don`t like the truth of this, but come next week that is what is going to become the legal outcome, the BOD were to smart for all of us especially that infamous 10 hsg clowns. (But never say never there are other avenues that are being explored & will be taken to the media.

[fatfish] 21/2/2014 15:17

Hence I very much doubt he is livid

[risk1] 21/2/2014 13:45

The crime scene???

That is a bold statement

If I was a director and had looked after shareholders to the fullest extent possible I would be livid right now

[ep0ch] 21/2/2014 13:40

yep they left the crime scene with their fingerprints all over the show.

[themoocha] 21/2/2014 13:35

Old management can jump ship all they like but what they can't do is hide from the huge amounts of information we have unearthed about their actions in relation to Hibu/Yell.

[13matt13] 21/2/2014 13:19

Old mgmt all jumping ship, now almost impossible to take legal actions against these people, well done hsg for forcing them into an early suspension & losing any chance shareholders had.

New board will be waiting in the wings next week with a new profile.

Published: 21 February 2014 Updated: 11:47, 21 February 2014

Tony Bates, chief financial officer of collapsed Yellow Pages publisher hibu, was today named in the same role at mobile satellite firm Inmarsat.

Bates had been at hibu since 2010; he and the board came under fire from shareholders after they were left with nothing when it was put into administration last year. He previously worked at telecom firm Colt and record label EMI.

[freddie ferret] 20/2/2014 18:45

I'm not sure if he is LF but think there is something going on between them. If we want to discuss this matter further it would probably be best done elsewhere, however I would comment that for me to post under your avatar all you have to do is mail me your password.

As I say this is best discussed elsewhere.

[themoocha] 20/2/2014 12:52

Freddie - I am with Ep0ch - I think Matt is not LF.

TM

[freddie ferret] 18/2/2014 17:34

epoch.

Why then after a very long holiday in the Maldives does LF come back on iii after matt gets my post 408 on here.

I am not buying the simple connection 13matt13=Mathew Dalgleish=another avatar we both know on the forum.

This matter is deeper than we think but one thing is certain 13matt13 is loosing the plot.


EDIT.

My post on here 16.34 on the 15th

Lunars return post on iii 18.30 on the 15th

He has been gone for weeks on iii.

Either a coincidence or they are one and the same or they are working together.

I suggest the reason for the iii post was to divert attention from my post here.

[ep0ch] 18/2/2014 17:11

Guess again. the clue is in his nick, 13matt13 is a Matthew, sometimes 13matt13 is Matthews wife. Bonjour Matthew et la femme.

[themoocha] 15/2/2014 09:13

Matt - Re Solocal Group -the big difference is that they actually wanted to keep shareholders, in our case it is the complete opposite, in case you haven't noticed.

I am glad you are speaking with Mr Bowers, it will be interesting to see if he adopts the same stance in dealing with you as he did with us shareholders at the EGM. If you were present at the EGM then you would know exactly what I am referring to. Rather than dealing with him over the phone I suggest you have a face to face meeting, please let us know how you get on.

TM

[13matt13] 15/2/2014 07:03

This is what should have happened with hibu.


"Solocal Group (LOCAL), the French directories publisher formerly known as PagesJaunes, plans to raise 440 million euros ($600 million) from a share offering to reduce its 1.6 billion-euro debt load.

The company will propose the capital increase at a shareholder meeting in April and the deal is dependent on creditors agreeing to extend loans maturing in September 2015, according to a statement. A group of five investors including Paulson & Co. Inc. and Boussard & Gavaudan Holding Ltd. have underwritten the share issuance.

Solocal wants the backing of at least 90 percent of its lenders for the debt extension, it said. If the Paris-based company doesn't get this level of support it will seek to implement the refinancing through a process managed by the French courts, dependent on it getting two-thirds support from creditors for the proposal.

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The deal represents a "significant and long-term strengthening of Solocal Group's capital structure," and will provide the company with the resources to boost its Internet activities, said Jean-Pierre Remy, Solocal's chairman, in the statement.

Europe's biggest directories companies are reducing or restructuring their debt as they manage high borrowing levels and a decline in paper directories. Hibu Plc, the U.K. yellow pages publisher, and Seat Pagine Gialle SpA, are both going through court-managed processes to cut the size of their bank debt."

[freddie ferret] 14/2/2014 15:55

Nowt all there that is not already in the public domain or in the media. What is not however is the details of the total stupidity of the people we are dealing with. It will all come out in the wash in the not to distant future IMHO.

PS matt, do not worry, there is a nice warm cell waiting for you and IMHO Ninja and several other avatars too.

[themoocha] 14/2/2014 10:56

13 Matt - If you were in HSG you would know what is happening. Your points are being addressed by a highly motivated team.