Ignoring all current medical advice warning against sedentary lifestyles, Britons will watch an average of 5.7 hours of TV a day this Christmas across various screens.

New! Welcome to the world of Alice – a weekly glance at the absurdities of a life working in media.

Essence, whose clients include the Financial Times, Google, HP and Tesco Mobile, will continue to operate as an independent brand within WPP and GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management division.

Scott Havens will become Bloomberg Media’s global head of digital from 16 November.

BuzzFeed, Sky Media and Mindshare are just a few of the top names joining Mediatel for the annual Media Playground event next week.

As Rajar publishes its third quarter results for the radio market, Carat’s AV planning team assesses the data.

Rajar’s third quarter results for the radio market paint a largely healthy picture. Here, Newsline presents the key findings showing station and network reach, share and average listening hours.

As Rajar publishes its third quarter results for the radio market, Newsline presents a full round-up for the national stations and networks and the digital and breakfast markets.

Analogue listening declined year on year by 10.4% to just over half of listening, according to the latest Rajar results – representing a “tipping point” for digital.

The publisher of the Daily Mirror and Sunday People will buy out the 80% it does not already own in Local World to create the largest regional newspaper publisher in the UK.