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The Independent looks to boost its digital offering with a free app that combines a mixture of newspaper design with digital interactivity.

If Mike Luckwell thinks it’s worth the effort to try to save Reader’s Digest from an apparently inevitable extinction, it would be best to pay attention – but can he really make a profit from the ‘frisky over 50s’?

Let’s assume for a moment, writes Raymond Snoddy, that Lord Grade’s plans for the BBC and Channel 4 are serious ideas rather than jolly wheezes dreamt up over a bottle of claret, and try to envisage some of the consequences…

Market fragmentation, a lack of transparency and poor quality inventory for online video is costing advertisers, experts warn – with complacency – from both advertisers and media agencies – compounding the situation.

Hamish White, the man in charge of developing the Sun’s ‘Goals’ video app – which helped pave the way to placing the newsbrand’s content behind a paywall – has said that storytelling has been vital to its success.

From new forms of communication to new ways of working, agencies need to embrace change or get squashed, writes Dominic Mills.

Newspapers are making the right changes to cope with a digital world – yet by comparison, TV news channels seem stuck in the 90s with their mantras of “breaking news” when absolutely nothing is happening. Are their days numbered?

Despite advertising stimulating competition, innovation and expansion, only 30% of UK SMEs make any investment, according to a new report from the Advertising Association and Deloitte.

The pressure for IPG as it waits to see what happens in a post-‘Publicom’ world has forced it to make a hasty deal that has quickly gone wrong. But in this climate of uncertainty and fear botched deals really don’t help.

Display Internet, outdoor and television advertising saw the greatest increases in spend throughout the first three quarters of 2013 compared to the same period the year before, according to the latest findings from Nielsen.