Friday, 26 September 2014

Media Institutions ( Advertising companies)

Media Institutions


 Top 3 Advertising Companies:



WPP- ghd, Soho Square


Y&R -  Virgin Travel, Land Rover, LG


McCann Worldgroup - Sony Experia, Chevrolet, Microsoft




Media Institutions ( British film companies)

Media Institutions


5 British Film Companies:



-Aardman Animations / flushed away, Arthur Christmas


-Big Talk Productions / Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , Hot fuzz


-Ealing Studios / St Trinians, Shaun of the dead 


-Heyday Films / , Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , I Am Legend


-Working Title / Nanny McPhee, Cloverfield



Thursday, 25 September 2014

Media Institutions ( TV networks)

Media Institutions


The differences between major TV networks:

-BBC /  31.9% views on average weekly

-ITV /  22.1% views on average weekly

-Channel 4 / 10.4% on average weekly

-Sky / 8.1% on average weekly

Media insitutions ( Record Labels)

Media institutions 


The 'Big 4' Record Labels:



-Sony BMG / Signed: Britney Spears , Audioslave and Jessica Simpson

-Universal Music Group / Signed: Apocalyptica , All Time Low, Bon Jov


-EMI / Signed: Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot

-Warner Music Group / Signed: Van Halen ,Alice Cooper and Montrose 


Media institutions (Magazines)

Media institutions


top 4 selling uk magazines

TV Choice, published by  H Bauer Publishing selling 1.3m per issue


What's on TV, published by IPC Media, selling 1.2m per issue



 Radio Times, published by Immediate Media company, selling 893,000 per issue



Take a Break, published by H Bauer Publishing selling 750,000 per issue


Thursday, 18 September 2014

Media Diary

Dairy of media activity for the week

12th September 2014-
Used Facebook (social networking)
watched the 100
read an article about gcse results in the daily mirror
13th September 2014-
Used Facebook (social networking)
watched a trailer for the vampire diaries
used youtube to search for music
14th September 2014-
Used facebook (social networking)
watched once upon a time.
15th September 2014-
Used facebook (social networking)
researched forensics anthology
16th September 2014-
Used facebook (social networking)
watched maleficent (DVD) 
17th September 2014-
Used facebook (social networking)
researched media institutions in media studies
played on dragon city on my iphone.
checked blogger
18th September 2014 -
used Facebook (social networking)
used youtube to watch music videos
used blogger


Media Institutions (Newspapers)

Media Institutions

Newspapers



In the uk the 5 biggest selling newspaper are:

The Sun  selling 2,213,659 newspapers this year 


 The Daily Mail selling 1,780,565 Newspapers this year



The Daily Mirror selling 992,256 newspapers this year



The Daily Telegraph selling 544,546 newspapers this year



The Daily Express selling 500,473 newspapers this year