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Raymond Snoddy says those who believe in freedom of speech should be concentrating their efforts on defending and improving self-regulation rather than trying to appease judges by offering up statutory baubles…

BSkyB has released its unaudited results for the three months ending 30 September 2011, showing overall revenue growth of 9% to £1.66 billion, with adjusted operating profit up 16% to £295 million.

Dominic Finney, director at digital consultancy FaR, looks at the changing business models that are arising for the newspaper industry and considers what the long-term models could be.

Alex Franks, director at Blyk, looks at location based marketing and the huge potential this has to marketers if used intelligently.

Richard Marks, chief executive of Kantar Media Audiences, looks at the increasing importance of TV data and how it is becoming the “new oil” for the industry.

Google’s new broadband homes research initiative came under the microscope during the final session of the day – Metrics – at MediaTel Group’s The Connected TV Experience conference.

The “Business Models and Platforms” panel at MediaTel Group’s first Connected TV Experience conference reached near consensus that channel brands will remain key – acting as the ultimate content recommendation engines. As consumers become confused by the choice in the digital TV arena, trusted channel brands will continue to have an important role to play.

“YouView is still going to be incredibly important”, Bill Scott from easeltv told delegates at MediaTel Group’s Connected TV Experience event this week.

Video: To find out what young people really think about products and services, and to find out how they use them (along with their laptops and mobile phones), we asked the stars of our Youth, Media and Technology panel – Amy and Bruno…

The daily national newspaper market saw circulation figures drop once again in September. Overall the market is down -2.6% PoP and -7.1% YoY.