ZenithOptimedia has upgraded its forecast for global adspend growth this year from 2.2% to 3.5%.

June was a pretty poor month for the daily national newspaper market according to the latest ABC figures, as it recorded an overall decline of 6.5% year on year.

Google has reported a 24% year on year increase in net profit for the second quarter of 2010, from $1.48 billion to $1.84 billion.

New RAJAR figures reveal that 20% of smartphone owners, or 1.4 million people, have downloaded a radio app.

Magna Global’s latest On-Demand Quarterly forecasts that video on demand will reach 65.4 million households by 2016.

Six in ten American adults now go online wirelessly using either a mobile phone or a laptop with a wireless internet connection, according to a May 2010 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

BSkyB has completed the acquisition of Virgin Media Television (VMtv), renaming it the Living TV Group.

Five launches its new channel, Five HD, on Sky and Virgin Media today.

A new study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) reveals the impact of social media on May’s general election.

Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in online social gaming company Zynga, according to a report from TechCrunch.