New research from TubeMogul reveals the differences in engagement between interactive video ads and standard pre-roll.

The latest NRS findings for the national newspaper market reveal that the Financial Times and Sunday Times were the only titles to see any readership growth across the year, as the first-time findings for the Sun (Sunday) show a loss of 314,000 readers.

The unique pilot, ‘The After’, is to be written and directed by Chris Carter, set at the moment of apocalypse.

TalkTalk’s pay-TV offering has reached the half a million subscriber mark within the first year of the company starting, and claims to be the fastest growing pay-TV service.

The smart set-top box and dongle market is expected to pass 18 million units in 2013 – higher than originally forecast, due to the arrival of Google’s Chromecast device.

Accrington, in Lancashire, has been named the 100th town in the UK to receive the superfast mobile internet.

New TV viewing figures from Thinkbox for the first half of 2013 show how people’s television habits are changing as on-demand TV viewing becomes a more established part of people’s lives.

Mobile phones now account for almost a fifth of all web usage across the globe, according to new research from Statista – with European mobile web usage increasing by almost 4% year on year.

Speaking at the 2013 Edinburgh International Television Festival, Spacey said that shows such as Breaking Bad and The Sopranos were “inescapable evidence that the King of television is the creative”, and that “revolutionary programming” must be kept alive.

The latest figures for online ABC monitored newsbrands show much healthier results than June, with the guardian.co.uk the only website to see any decline over the month.