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Christmas appears to be turning us all into Pavlovian consumer drones – with this week’s winner coming out on top with a festive offer too good to refuse…

As EE launches its new TV service, a senior consultant at Decipher says the firm now has the opportunity to integrate its mobile/broadband customer data with EE TV usage data – can it break new ground in the UK?

Standards of measurement as much as technologies seemed to be the challenge for the research bosses at the asi European TV Symposium, as they considered the key requirements for audience measurement across all platforms.

Research released today by the Internet Advertising Bureau UK (IAB) shows the increasing role that mobile and tablets play with traditional media – with 81% now visiting the internet via an app or browser daily.

Last night brought the latest instalment from Alan Sugar’s uncomfortable comedy show The Apprentice (9pm), with the fifth episode continuing to expose all the remaining contestants for the clueless oxygen thieves that they are.

“Innovation has been driven by broadcast channel brands for the last ten years, now it will come from the set top box operators,” said Nigel Walley, managing director of Decipher, at the asi European TV Symposium in Madrid.

In what was one of the highlights of Media Playground, Torin Douglas interviewed Ashley Highfield, the ex-BBC man now trying to turn a print business that started life in 1767 into a mobile-first operation.

Tuesday night saw the return of BBC One’s grim and challenging missing child drama The Missing (9pm), as James Nesbitt’s bereaved father continued the search for his misplaced five-year-old son across two separate time lines.

Everyone knows there is a perfect fit of mobile and OOH working together – the challenge is realising this in a way that genuinely works for clients, writes Ged Weston.

The Media Research Group epitomises collaboration, says Frances Sheardown – and we should celebrate that fact at next week’s MRG conference.