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Yahoo! has released its Livestand tablet app and is looking for advertisers to pay up to $500,000 for packages around its new interactive video ad unit.

ITV1’s new drama The Jury debuted with more than 6.2 million peak viewers in the prime time slot last night.

Facebook is becoming a key news destination. According to the latest findings from Lightspeed Research, 15% of all consumers (rising to 30% of 18-24 year olds) turn to Facebook for their news at some point during the week.

O2 in the UK today announced that it is to appoint Claire Valoti as managing director of its media business effective January 2012.

A new survey from Havas Media reveals that only 5% of UK brands have a noticeable positive impact on our sense of wellbeing and quality of life. Indeed most people in the UK would not care if 91% of brands ceased to exist. Further evidence, it argues,” that the existing approaches to building and measuring brand value are out of date”

In 2011, more than 27% of TVs shipped worldwide will be able to connect to a network, a figure that is expected to rise 54% to 155 million by 2015, according to the Q311 DisplaySearch Quarterly TV Design and Features Report.

Samsung has added a new app Karaoke Superstar to its Smart TV App Store that supports payments through PayPal.

The second episode of BBC One’s much-talked about Frozen Planet documentary series peaked with a high of 8.4 million viewers last night.

BT has released its results for Q2 and the first half of the year to 30 September 2011.

Ashley Underwood, senior strategy executive at TGI, on why marketers may want to consider targeting ‘Occupy’ protesters…