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RTL’s recent acquisition of a majority stake in SpotXchange has given Decipher’s Nigel Walley a nervous sense of déjà vu, reminding him of a previous broadcaster’s dramatic foray into emerging digital media…

Bauer Media UK has appointed ex-Warner Group and LoveLive executive Sam Jones as managing director, digital.

London Live is flat-lining on a 0.3% audience share, its owners are running up losses and it could even help pull The Independent down. So what should Ofcom do now? By Raymond Snoddy.

ITV has reported pre-tax profits of £250 million for the second quarter of 2014, despite a decline in viewing figures in the first six months of the year.

There’s no apparent regard for the fact that a number of industry sources, including TGI, UKOM and RAJAR, are calibrated against the NRS population survey. If we kill the NRS much could fall apart, writes ISBA’s Bob Wootton.

Fighting fraud requires more than just developing better detection systems for bots, writes Marco Bertozzi – advertisers need to start looking more closely at the quality of what they are buying and be willing to pay for it.

Figures from the Jobs Index confirm that the level of marketing vacancies expanded both year-on-year and between the first two quarters of 2014.

BSkyB is to pay £4.9 billion to take over Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia, creating a European media powerhouse

As Facebook records second quarter revenues of $2.91bn – with its once-floundering mobile business now accounting for 62% of advertising revenues – Jason Mander, head of trends atGlobalWebIndex, analyses the results.

US media players are increasingly developing a taste for the flesh of British TV companies in what is turning into a very expensive game of musical chairs. What is going on and where will it all end? Raymond Snoddy investigates.