Bank of America Merrill Lynch has said it expects the broadband discounts announced by Sky last week to remain a permanent feature – and will cost the company over £60 million if it was to run the promotion for a whole year.

Amol Rajan becomes Fleet Street’s first non-white editor as The Independent, The Evening Standard and i announce new appointments.

Magna Global, Interpublic’s trading and forecasting wing, has predicted the global advertising market will grow by +3.0% this year as UK ad revenue is set to grow 2.2% in 2013 and 2.5% in 2014.

Global Radio has today filed an application with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) for a review of the Competition Commission’s final decision in the Global Radio/Real & Smooth transaction.

BARB, the official source of television viewing figures in the UK, has today announced that it has appointed Kantar Media to collect census data for TV viewing through all computer devices, including tablets.

ITV has announced the launch of a new version of the ITV Player app for Apple devices, making ITV the first commercial broadcaster to give mobile viewers the option to watch catch up content without ads.

As part of the deal WPP companies from a variety of disciplines will increasingly leverage Twitter data across a number of initiatives to deliver “more effective campaigns, enhanced targeting and more real-time insight to clients.”

Micro video app Vine has been launched on Android after 13 million downloads of the IOS version.

Trinity Mirror today announced the appointment of Sue Douglas as publishing director and Rupert Howell as chairman of Sunday Brands, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trinity Mirror, with responsibility for The Sunday People and a host of regional titles.

Celebrated football broadcasters Danny Baker and Danny Kelly have agreed to reform their on-off broadcasting partnership to front a lively football show for BT Sport.