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New Zealand’s World Cup Rugby win attracted more than 5.5 million peak viewers for ITV1 on Sunday morning.

The Urban Dictionary’s definition of zeebox is “a drug infested overflow of the mind and a representation of a madman’s inner most mental desire to manipulate the viewer and make you feel and think that you yourself are going or are already insane.” Man…!

Advertising agency Publicis Groupe posted 6.4% Q3 organic sales growth yesterday as revenues grew across all regions, helped by strong demand for digital ads.

Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on Mary Meeker and the latest updates from Facebook, Apple and Google…

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.

Channel 4 Sales has agreed a contract with BBC Worldwide to sell advertising in the UK around its on-demand content on Virgin Media’s TV Choice VoD platform.

News International is thought to be announcing another round of job cuts.

Digital currently accounts for about 30% of WPP revenues – “nearly double its closest competitor” – according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML).

Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist Mary Meeker has released new charts on the state of industry, claiming that media time spent v ad spend is “still out of whack” in the US.

44% of US housholds now have at least one DVR (up from 8% in 2005) and 62% of digital cable subscribers now use VoD at least monthly compared with 52% a year ago, according to new research from Leichtman Research Group.