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The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing finals topped December’s programme rankings. In first place, The X Factor results (on Sunday 11 December), with an audience of more than 13.4 million viewers.

Britons are a pretty content family of people, confirms a new research report by the Future Foundation.

Raymond Snoddy: ‘The Editors’, both present and former, turned out to be a motley lot with no coherent view, either of the world or media regulation, at the Leveson inquiry this week. But, fear not, help is at hand – bring on the politicians…

Roku is set to launch two of its streaming players – Roku LT and Roku 2 XS – in the UK at the end of January.

Chris Worrell: Can advertisers use digital to tell engaging brand stories?

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show kick-started in Las Vegas yesterday, with Samsung, LG, Sony and Panasonic all showing off products and services…

Scott Ferber, chairman and CEO of Videology Group, a video advertising specialist, identifies three key trends that will change the way brands use video in 2012…

Netflix, the US streaming service, which launched in the UK and Ireland yesterday, says it will surpass the success of the BBC iPlayer and go head-to-head with BSkyB.

YouView, the long-awaited connected TV service from partners including ITV, BT and TalkTalk, has spent almost £20 million in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 million to staff.

Steve Smith, head of thought leadership at SMV Group, says moving into 2012 supermarkets are under pressure to acclimatise to new economic conditions, consumer demands and consumer technologies, but also take advantage of the year’s sports and royal events…