The Mirror UK
The social network first started rolling out its live video-streaming feature globally in February. Since then, the company has made a number of significant changes to its apps to make the feature more prominent. Now Facebook has gone a step further and added a "Live Video" tab in the left-hand bar on the desktop version of its site.
Campaign
Britain's biggest building society has used Havas Media as its planning and buying agency since 2008. It is thought the brand is planning chemistry meetings with agencies from holding companies including WPP, Omnicom and Publicis Groupe, as well as the incumbent, Havas Nationwide confirmed the review but would not comment on any approach it has made to agencies.
Marketing Week
In a bid to shake off the stigma that prevents many Brits from donating blood, NHS Blood and Transplant yesterday launched an innovative campaign that allows donators to virtually fill up a bag of blood on major ad screens in both Birmingham and London.
The Guardian
The i newspaper increased its sales by 7% in April to almost 300,000, a rise of almost 20,000 copies a day, making it the single biggest beneficiary of former Independent readers looking for a new national newspaper to buy.
Campaign
In a poll of 1,000 UK people with an interest in the tournament, marketing tech firm RadiumOne found that six of the top ten most associated brands were not sponsors. The list is topped by sponsors Coca-Cola, which 12% of those polled linked to the competition, and Adidas, on 10% -- but Nike is only just behind on 9%, despite having no commercial connection.
Campaign
Senior members of the UK's marketing community strongly support Britain's continued membership of the European Union, according to a Marketing Society survey. The research, which was shared exclusively with Campaign, found that 77% of respondents intended to vote to remain in the EU in the referendum, just 15% were pro-Brexit, while the remainder (8%) did not know.
The Drum
The Electoral Commission has launched a major public awareness campaign to remind people they must register to vote by the 7 June deadline if they want to vote in the EU Referendum. The "Unmissable" campaign will launch this week across TV, radio, video-on-demand services, billboards, digital and social media and will run until polling day.
Marketing Week
SABMiller says the success of Peroni, which it claims is the number one super-premium beer in the UK, is much more a story of marketing than sales as it looks to redefine how and when consumers drink beer amid a wider slowdown in alcohol sales.
BBC
Google is launching Android Pay, its tap-and-go contactless payment service, in the UK. Nearly 60% of the country's smartphone users own an Android handset. Devices running Android 4.4 or higher and fitted with an NFC chip will be able to use the service. The firm said it had chosen the UK to offer mobile payments because of British familiarity with contactless payments.
Telegraph
Hundreds of thousands of homes in towns and cities are at risk of being left in the Internet slow lane because of EU state aid rules. Ministers are hoping to have rolled out superfast Internet at speeds of 24Megabits per second to 95% of the UK by the end of next year. However, this will still leave 5% of the UK - around one million properties - without access to these superfast speeds.