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The weekend saw yet another insanely popular reality show enter the fray, while another struggled and Coronation Street’s latest drama cementing it’s popularity in the soap world.

When the Savile/Newsnight story first broke, Raymond Snoddy feared for the Director General’s future and asked: “Could it be that the BBC will finally get, rather sooner than expected, what many people thought it should have had all along – its first woman director-general?” Today he sees no reason to change that view.

Jeremy Toeman, CEO of dijit, provided delegates at the 2012 ASI European TV Symposium in Prague, with an entertaining and opinionated series of challenges and bets around TV viewing and particularly social and curation.

“We want to ask for your help and ask you how we can partner. We are eagerly awaiting ideas and will bring our data to the party.”

The overall daily newspaper market was down -8.7% YoY and -1.2% PoP in October, with just one title enjoying a increase in circulation over the year. Independent’s sister title i posted a 44.1% YoY rise during the month (up by more than 93,000 copies) and now has a total circulation of 305,000 copies.Two daily titles… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: October 2012

Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, rounds up this week’s mobile news.

Starcom MediaVest’s head of thought leadership, Steve Smith, outlines the opportunities presented by Smart TVs.

The Future Foundation’s Richard Nicholls on highlights from Future Foundation’s 2012 wave of kids research from their nVision service.

This week sees the launch of 7 Heaven Media. The media sales company starts business with a network of 250 digital screens in 165 private jet terminals across the EMEA region.

Will Youngman, digital consultant at GfK, says that the amount of information available to us about what we buy means that the consumer journey is far more circular and frequently doesn’t involve any brand-to-consumer interaction at all.