Company-owned tablets are expected to contribute to 20% of the tablet market by 2018, up from 14% this year, according to research from Forrester. This come as tablet sales in general are slowing. According to Forrester, consumers are less inclined to replace old tablets because of a lack of genuinely new innovations in updated models. The research states that while Apple sold 12.6 million iPads in the second quarter of this year, it sold 16.4 million in the same quarter last year - a 23% drop.

The broadcaster's annual report argues that a decision by the director general, Tony Hall, to cap severance deals at GBP150,000 has already resulted in significant savings that demonstrate the BBC does not deserve to be punished by ministers. The corporation is awaiting a green paper on the future of the corporation, which is due to be published on Thursday. Hall will also defend the BBC's right to air Strictly Come Dancing, The Voice and other popular entertainment programmes.

Online FMCG sales grew by 28% globally and 20% in the UK in 2014 according to a new report from Kantar Worldpanel, accounting for 6% of the UK market. This number is set to reach 10% by 2025. Further, one in four households bought FMCG products online at least once in 2014, with the average shopper spending GBP43 per online trip compared to the GBP10 they spend in store. This presents a major opportunity for retailers and brands at a time when sales are slow, according to Kantar Worldpanel.

Apple has abandoned its usual emotive narrative style to focus on the iPhone's technology features in the smartphone's latest ads which also take a swipe at rival Android. The first 'Hardware & Software' ad features the 'If it's not an iPhone, it's not an iPhone' slogan as a voiceover champions Apple's build to a backdrop of its apps and features in action. Talking up the manufacturing of the iPhone and how both the software and hardware are designed in-house, the ad appears to take a swipe at Android.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is reviewing its $1bn global media agency roster in an attempt to tweak its structure to the consumer health joint venture it is building with fellow drug maker Novartis. The combined effort, is billed as the best of both companies, and GSK will review its media to apply to the statement to its advertising. The Drum understands that Starcom, PHD and GroupM - all of which have worked with the business in the past - were involved in the final stages of the review.

David Cameron has vowed to prevent charity fundraisers from pressuring people with calls and letters requesting donations. The prime minister tweeted a promise for new laws to crack down on the "unacceptable conduct" of some charity fundraisers. His vow comes two months after 92 year-old Bristol pensioner, Olive Cooke, was found dead in the Avon gorge. According to family and friends she was driven to suicide in part because she was exhausted by the constant demands of cold calls and direct mail from charities..

Blue 449, the Publicis Groupe agency formerly known as Walker Media, won the business without a pitch. The incumbent was Arena Media. Niall O'Keeffe, the marketing director at David Lloyd Leisure Group, previously worked with Blue 449 when he was at Dixons Retail, a long-term Blue 449 client, in roles such as Knowhow development director. The Notting Hill-based design and creative agency LMC creates David Lloyd's advertising.

Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has published the list of industry leaders set to advise the government on the BBC Charter Review process. Dawn Airey, senior vice president of Yahoo's business EMEA and former chairman and chief executive of Channel 5, Dame Colette Bowe, will be accompanied by Ashley Highfield, chief exectutive of Johnston Press, Alex Mahon, former chief executive of Shine Group, and Stewart Purvis CBE - British broadcaster and former editor-in-chief and chief executive of ITN.

The BBC is facing its most extensive changes in a generation as the government prepares to launch "root-and-branch" reforms that could force it to scrap commercially popular programmes such as The Voice and scale back its website. Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the BBC director-general, warned of a "tough fight ahead" in advance of a government green paper that is expected to propose further changes to the television licence fee, the dismantling of the BBC Trust and restrictions to the BBC's website.

BT has escalated its war of words with Sky, saying that its rival's dominance of the pay TV market is bad for consumers and calling on Ofcom to investigate competition in the pay-TV market. John Petter, chief executive of BT's consumer division, told a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch that Sky's control of 64% of pay-TV subscribers was leading to a raw deal for consumers. He called for the regulator to force Sky to make all of its channels available on the wholesale market to all pay TV competitors.