Future say it wants to enter 2015 “a leaner, simpler business with a strategy that focuses on core competencies of content that connects its customers and clients.”

Health, appearance and happiness have all taken a “significant knock” since 2008, Kantar Media say, leading to “profound behavioural changes” in the relationship between consumers and food.

The hope is the ABC report and certificates will help the industry to better understand viewability products and compare their capabilities – allowing agencies and advertisers to make “more informed” purchasing decisions.

The transaction will combine Yahoo’s premium desktop and mobile video advertising inventory with BrightRoll’s programmatic video platform and publisher relationships to bring “substantial value” to advertisers.

The findings of the neuroscience-based research conclude that the general industry view that it is the platform that drives behaviour, rather than the content, should be called into question.

A merger between the Newspaper Society and the Newspaper Publishers’ Association today sees the formation of a new “united voice” for the UK’s £6 billion national, regional and local news media sectors.

Dentsu Aegis Network has reached an agreement with the principal shareholders of mobile agency Fetch to acquire an 80% stake in the company – with an option to take 100% at a later date.

In what was one of the highlights of Media Playground, Torin Douglas interviewed Ashley Highfield, the ex-BBC man now trying to turn a print business that started life in 1767 into a mobile-first operation.

Ashley Highfield has met with BBC director general Tony Hall and James Harding, the Corporation’s head of news, to try and map out a “collaborative” approach that will see a “two-way flow of traffic” that benefits both parties.

Simon Daglish, the group commercial director of ITV, has said that ad fraud and poor quality audience data is holding TV back from being traded programmatically in the same way video-on-demand content is.