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The video-on-demand service, SeeSaw, which began its troubled existence a while back as Kangaroo, has closed after its new majority shareholder Criterion Capital Partners said other investors have failed to provide new funding.

I have it on good authority that Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, recently prepared to present a ‘TV is Dead’ presentation at a major international conference, only to be given a last minute jolt when he was told that many of the assumptions he had made in his speech were completely at odds with the accepted data.

James Whitmore, managing director at Postar, gives a low-down of the London Film Festival…

Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on the ‘smaller’ players – Nokia and Sony…

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.

Helen Keable, consultant at Radio Experts, says it’s encouraging to see some of commercial radio’s strongest brands collectively turning in such a strong book, particularly against a backdrop not only of the notoriously slow summer months but also a tenacious Beeb…

James Cridland, managing director of Media UK and a radio futurologist, says today’s RAJAR release continues to show a slow but steady increase in take-up of digital radio. If there is a way to accelerate this, it’s good for listeners and broadcasters alike – but it is also prudent to remain patient…

Richard Nicholls, Future Foundation, on consumers attitudes towards the Olympics and how media and social networking will impact the event in 2012…

Months after the company warned on its full-year results and said it would undertake a restructuring of its businesses, Future Plc announced today that CEO Stevie Spring and FD John Bowman would be stepping down
immediately.