IPC indie music title NME is launching a new initiative for one week only, allowing music fans to donate their unwanted CDs and records to Oxfam shops in exhange for a free copy of the magazine.

Ahead of tonight’s first televised debates between the leaders of the three main political parties, new UKOM figures show that the Conservative website was the most popular political party website in the UK last month.

A new Enders Analysis forecast predicts UK TV net advertising revenue will grow 10% year on year in 2010.

The IPA has published the results of its latest Online Media Owners’ Survey, revealing an overall improvement in service levels since the last survey, published in November 2009.

Seven of the UK’s biggest digital players have gained an independent certificate of compliance with the IAB’s Good Practice Principles in online behavioural advertising.

In March 2010, Americans conducted 15.4 billion core internet searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.1% search market share, according to new figures from comScore.

Internet entrepreneur Bill Gross, one of the main movers behind the launch of paid-search in the late 1990s, is launching a new startup designed to monetise Twitter.

Reader’s Digest UK has been bought by private equity firm Better Capital, according to a report in the Financial Times.

A new 18 metre interactive projection wall has been installed at Birmingham International Airport to promote the area.

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