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After a day of judging yesterday, the final shortlist for the 2014 Connected Consumer Awards has today been announced.

This week the Newspaper Society’s president told MPs the BBC should pay regional newspapers for stories it ‘lifts’ for its websites and local radio stations – but is this fair? Raymond Snoddy looks at the bigger picture.

Thankfully, there were only fifteen minutes of top notch banter and analytics from rosy-cheeked Adrian Chiles and his angry little friend Roy Keane before the 7:45pm kick-off.

ITV’s full year results for 2013 reveal a strong year for the broadcaster, with broadcast and online revenues up 3%, driven primarily by 16% growth in online, pay and interactive.

Cox Media, the ad sales division of Cox Communications, one of the largest broadcast service providers in the US, has partnered with an automated ad platform to begin selling linear TV inventory programmatcally.

Designed to align with the rest of BT’s devices, the new box is reported to have a faster start-up time and more efficient TV Guide and on-demand navigation.

Amazon has today announced it is to launch the “UK’s most complete digital video service”, re-branding its LOVEFiLM service and incorporating it into its UK website via Amazon Prime.

Amid a competitive holiday season, Samsung accounted for 26.4% of the global smart TV market share.

Total Satellite was up a huge 48% on December – while Channel 4, which saw only a slight increase in December, reported a lift of almost 30% to secure over £42 million – almost £10 million more than January 2013.

The differences between Twitter and Facebook have an enormous implication for data mining for television, says Mediaocean’s Sarah Lawson Johnston. So what does the future have in store?