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Greg Grimmer looks back at 2011 – Facebook’s ever-increasing IPO valuation, Stephen Haines’ move from Earlsfield to Monaco, the royal media wedding and the News of the World fiasco, right through to December’s silly season in Fitzrovia…

Armed with a 2 litre bottle of Strongbow (a “targeting” prize from the panel sponsors, Kantar), Neil Mortensen questioned a panel of media agency research directors at yesterday’s MRG conference.

This Saturday (3rd December) sees the airing of the first industry wide connected consumer campaign to promote digital radio.

ITV Family net advertising revenues (NAR) grew 1% in Q3 and marginally ahead of BoAML forecast.

MediaOcean will not be a bigger or better DDS or MediaBank but will instead be a brand new entity, according to Greg Koerner, CMO, MediaBank.

Why isn’t there a trading system to bridge the gap between agencies and publishers, asked News International’s Patricia Kill at MediaTel Group’s ‘Why Aren’t We All Trading Electronically?’ event at Specific Media on Wednesday.

O2 in the UK today announced that it is to appoint Claire Valoti as managing director of its media business effective January 2012.

Havas has reported 7.3% organic growth in the third quarter of 2011, with growth in all major markets except France. Group revenue was up 5% to $541.8 million.

WPP has cut its full-year growth forecast to 5% after reporting organic revenue growth of 4.7% in Q3 – down from 6.7% and 5.6% growth in Q1 and Q2.

Videology, the video advertising solutions platform, has appointed Rhys McLachlan to the newly created position of commercial development director – reporting into Ryan Jamboretz, managing director EMEA and global chief development officer.