Called the Periscope Producer, the new feature has been trialled by Sky News, the Football Association, Louis Vuitton and Disney. The idea is to allow brands to differentiate their output from the current crop of amateurish live video produced on smartphones. Periscope Producer allows brands to change the angle, overlay graphics on-screen and produce more professional-looking video.

The company, which is estimated by Ampere Analysis to have almost 6 million UK subscribers, made a pre-tax profit of GBP1.8m (EUR1.99m) last year. According to the filing at Companies House in the UK, the firm's immediate parent company is Netflix International BV, based in the Netherlands. As such, the UK company reports its results in euros.

The BBC's soon-to-be independent production arm, BBC Studios, will not have to reveal the pay of the corporation's highest-paid stars in an apparent climbdown by the government. Lord Ashton, parliamentary under secretary of state for culture media and sport, told a Lords debate on Wednesday evening that BBC Studios would not have to carry out "full named disclosure."

Discovery, the owner of Eurosport, struck a shock GBP920m deal to take control of the rights to the Olympics from the BBC in the UK as well as across Europe from 2022. Discovery later struck a sub-licensing deal with the BBC as its free-to-air broadcasting partner in the UK. In turn, the corporation allowed Eurosport to start broadcasting the Winter and Summer Olympics from next year.

Remember that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise walks through the shopping centre and gets bombarded with advertising? Yahoo's latest plan isn't quite as bad as that, but it's still a step in the same direction. The company, which already has a bad track record with security, has filed a patent for a camera-equipped "smart" billboard that will personalise ads in the real world.

Without naming Tesco, Unilever's chief financial officer has said that he expects the price dispute between the two that has caused dozens of its household brands to be pulled from stores to be settled "really quickly." Unilever CFO on Tesco furore: 'We're confident the situation will be resolved really quickly."

MullenLowe Group has promoted Buster Dover, managing director of MullenLowe Profero, to group managing director in the UK. The promotion follows the appointment of Dale Gall, former EMEA chief executive of MullenLowe Profero, as UK group chief executive.

Economic uncertainty in the run-up to, and the outcome of, the European Union referendum contributed to a 14.3% decline in the number of completed account reviews in the first nine months of the year. According to AAR's New Business Pulse, there was a 26.6% fall in the number of pitch results announced between July and September compared with the same period in 2015.

Marketers are feeling confident about employment opportunities despite concerns over economic growth following the vote to leave the European Union. For the first time this quarter, the IPA's Bellwether Report asked respondents how they feel about employment in the industry. It found that almost a third (29.5%) of marketers expect overall employment to be higher in three months' time.

Marketers have "held their nerve" in the face of an uncertain business climate following the UK's Brexit vote, according to the latest Bellwether Report by the IPA. The survey of 300 UK marketing bosses, which covers the third quarter of this year, shows that a net balance of 13.4% of marketers increased their spend in the third quarter -- the highest rate in two years.