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Last week ITV announced that it will become the first commercial broadcaster to give mobile viewers the option – at a price – to watch catch-up content without ads. It’s an interesting test of an increasingly important part of the media eco-system, but is it really going to work? Whatever happens, you can bet ITV’s competitors will be watching like hawks says Dominic Mills

Last night saw BBC One jump aboard the current adult fantasy obsession with the launch of their latest big budget Sunday night drama. Based upon a number of salacious novels by Philippa Gregory, The White Queen (9pm) delivered a mixture of pageantry and good ol’ rumpy-pumpy.

Magna Global, Interpublic’s trading and forecasting wing, has predicted the global advertising market will grow by +3.0% this year as UK ad revenue is set to grow 2.2% in 2013 and 2.5% in 2014.

OMD’s The Future of Britain project is trying to understand how the recession has impacted people’s lives – and the implications for brands in such a diverse, fragmented and chaotic society. In the first of our exclusive new series, OMD’s insights director Chris Worrell explains how the British household is changing – – from old people that just won’t stop having fun, to children that just can’t quite fly the nest…

Despite all the hullaballoo surrounding last night’s live launch of Big Brother, BBC Two’s long running documentary show, Horizon, managed to steal the show.

After a day of judging yesterday, the final shortlist for the inaugural Connected Consumer Awards have today been announced.

We spend billions of pounds a year trying to target the connected consumer, but instead we end up targeting connected devices – more often than not in an unconnected way, says Specific Media’s Martin Galvin. We must make sure that the consumer’s consumption dictates the plan, rather than vice versa…

Wednesday’s episode saw foetus transporter Tina throw a paddy of apocalyptic proportions as she continued down the slippery slope of paternal delusion.

As Greece’s national broadcaster is pulled off the air, there have been warnings the BBC could suffer a similar fate. Should we be worried? In the obvious sense, there is no danger – but there have always been pressures and they could be about to get worse says Raymond Snoddy.

D-Day: As it Happens brought to life the experiences of seven real people through a clever mix of digital and traditional mediums. Here, one of the show’s creators, Adam Lawrenson of Digit, explains how this could be a pivotal moment in the evolution of how content is disseminated.