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All of Britain’s broadcasters, including the BBC, without hesitation broadcast and highlighted the embarrassing call to Jacintha Saldanha without ever presumably pausing to ask whether any permission had been granted. Here’s where the blame should spread wider. Much wider.

Dominic Mills says it’s not difficult to count up the UK’s influence on the global advertising industry, but with a new IPA study into the business effects of a thousand advertising campaigns from over thirty years, how can clients be persuaded to invest longer term?

Forget all the dodgy opinion polls, petitions and the ceaseless whining of Hacked Off. We have now got to the heart of the matter and there is more than a decent chance that Leveson could, against all the odds, turn out well for both the press and the public, says Raymond Snoddy.

You don’t have to be an accountancy wonk to find pleasure, surprise and a touch of salaciousness hidden among the pages of the latest annual survey of agencies’ financial performance. For there, laid out in all their glory – and some gore – are the financial secrets of a host of agencies…

Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, rounds up this week’s mobile news.

Right at the heart of the matter is a piece of almost medieval theology. This, the dogmatic judge insists, is not statutory regulation, nor could it reasonably or fairly be described as statutory regulation. The judge is wrong. It could and it is – but it has to be made clear in what way.

Christmas: a festival based on a myth where social norms are lubricated by dishonesty – and, of course, Christmas advertising has traditionally reflected this. So how have advertisers judged the national mood this year?

Our new Newsline columnist, Dominic Mills, interviews Jim Hytner, worldwide CEO of Initiative.

Preliminary skirmishes are hotting up in the battle for the future of press regulation as Lord Justice Leveson prepares to publish his long-awaited report – and the increasingly bitter salvoes are starting to get very ugly.

Andy Eardley, director and co-founder of the TV App Agency, on smart TV connectivity and how to encourage users to interact.