Forget the never-ending ‘year of mobile’ – it is all about the week of mobile. IAB and PwC released the findings from their annual mobile advertising spend study yesterday, showing that advertising on mobile devices increased by 157% in 2011 to a new high of £203.2 million.
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Raymond Snoddy: Leveson is already having a chilling effect on popular journalism – as seen in the blandness of the Sunday edition of The Sun and most Sunday tabloids following the demise of the News of the World…
Jim Marshall says Ofcom’s ‘Project Apple’ investigation is misplaced and irrelevant – unless of course they can demonstrate that BSkyB has not behaved in a ‘fit or proper’ way, which they won’t be able to…
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