Sky has agreed to sell a controlling stake in its online betting and gaming business, Sky Bet, to CVC Capital Partners in a deal worth £800 million.

Programmatic specialist Infectious Media has announced a new service that deploys ads on desktops and tablets “within milliseconds” of a TV advert appearing.

Vodafone is in talks with Tesco to buy its loss-making video on-demand service Blinkbox, according to various reports.

The National Readership Survey has today released its second wave of mobile and tablet estimates of magazine readership, alongside its quarterly print and PC results.

Children are topping up traditional live TV viewing by watching online video clips and catch-up TV, choosing what content they get from radio and messaging rather than talking on the phone.

Dolphin, whose previous role as group publishing director saw her working across titles including Cosmopolitan and Esquire, will now focus exclusively on her new position, reporting Hearst Magazines UK’s CEO, Anna Jones.

Cheil Worldwide, the South Korean ad company, has announced it has signed a deal to acquire a “significant initial investment” in iris, the London-based agency network with clients including Samsung, Barclaycard and Adidas.

A new study from Ofcom has revealed how children are topping up traditional live TV viewing by watching online video clips and catch-up TV.

Independent research carried out on behalf of Digital Cinema Media, claims that ads on the big screen are more than eight times more effective at making a brand “stand out” than television.

New research has revealed that UK consumers are sharing over three times more information on ‘dark social’ channels – where web analytics are unable to track – than via social channels like Facebook.