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A round-up of the weekend’s TV ratings, including the Six Nations rugby matches and the Liverpool v Cardiff City final…

Rupert Murdoch claims the first edition of the Sunday Sun sold three million copies. Last night he tweeted: “Reports early, but new Sun edition sold 3m!”. Media agencies – ZenithOptimedia, MEC, Carat UK and Mike Colling & Company – give their verdicts here…

Following 3.8% growth in 2011, global advertising spending is expected to grow by 4.9% in 2012 to $465.5 billion, according to the latest global advertising forecast from Strategy Analytics.

Pub landlady Karen Murphy has won her court battle with the English Premier League over using a Greek TV decoder to screen football games.

Soaps and football dominated Thursday night’s TV schedule with Coronation Street attracting the biggest audience on ITV1. 7.5 million people tuned in to see the latest drama on the most eventful street in the North.

The results of the IAB’s Customer Conversion Journey research in the automotive sector illustrate the relationship between exposure to different online activities including display advertising, sponsored search, natural search and buzz – and site visitation and online conversions.

New research from Nielsen’s US Digital Consumer Report released today reveals that 29% of smartphone owners use their phone for shopping-related activities. Top activities among mobile shoppers include in-store price comparisons (38% of mobile shoppers), browsing products through their mobile web or apps (38%) and reading online product reviews (32%).

The top 25 media influencers in UK’s digital technology space in 2012 have today been named in The Tech Influence 25, a report by Propeller and Cision.

Richard Nicholls, The Future Foundation, gives an insight into how the family has adapted in response to changing social and economic conditions…

Rural high-drama was the nation’s choice last night as Emmerdale pulled in the highest number of viewers with an average audience of seven million.