BUZZMEDIA continue to add to their ever-expanding portfolio of music magazines and blogs, with the recent acquisition of Spin Magazine being followed by the addition of four punk blogs, including Under The Gun Review and Punknews.org, to their roster. However, some fear it will lead...
It’s been a ropey year for British festivals, and last weekend it got even worse. Veteran dance festival Creamfields was the unfortunate recipient of two weeks worth of rain in one day, leading to the cancellation of the event on Sunday as attendees had to...
Analysis and research by Experian Marketing Services has made clear the huge growth enjoyed by Pinterest and Instagram over the last year, with the sites increasing visits by 5,124% and 17,319% respectively. Pinterest is now the third most visited social network on the web (it...
Microsoft unveiled its first major logo change in 25 years last week but the rebranding exercise has attracted criticism from some experts, who feel the new image is “conservative” and “a bit dull”. Click here for full story...
Cheeky man-scent purveyors Lynx were on the ball over the weekend, apologising for any part their deodorant may have played in Prince Harry’s naked party antics in Las Vegas recently with a one-off ad in the British paper that drew complaints for publishing the pics...
Former Busted singer Charlie Simpson, now fronting Fightstar, is being sent to Siberia. No, not to a gulag – although some might think that a just punishment for his multiple crimes against music – but for a world record attempt sponsored by Jägermeister. Simpson plans...
The anti-trust investigation into Facebook’s proposed acquisition of Instagram has been closed, leaving the pathway clear for the takeover to go ahead. However, what had been a proposed £1bn deal has been scaled down to just £300m, plus 23 million shares – shares that are...
Having controversially been allowed by Ofcom to launch super-fast 4G services on its existing bandwidth, Everything Everywhere (owners of the soon-to-be-replaced Orange and T-Mobile brands) hope to have it up and running by October. While Everything, Everywhere were forced to sell a chunk of their...
With the coalition government currently consulting over the possibility of forcing ISPs to restrict access to pornography, a poll has suggested that over a third of Britons would support a blanket ban. That would enforce anyone desiring a cheeky knuckle-shuffle to ‘opt in’ to access...
Spotify seems to have been going from strength to strength following its launch in the USA, but it may have hit a plateau. Somehow it had four million fewer users over the last month, even as daily users continued to increase. Read an analysis of the...