The BBC and ITV are to launch a Netflix-style TV service, called BritBox, which will initially target the US market. The broadcasters, which have been investigating launching a "best of British" on-demand service since at least March, intend to offer a mix of dramas including "Tutankhamun," "Cold Feet" and "Silent Witness" as well as soaps such as "EastEnders" and "Emmerdale."

Anyone at YouTube's Brandcast Monday night will have noted a very different feel to the event. Last year's event saw Google tell advertisers that if they wanted to reach 16- to-34-year-olds they would need to give YouTube 24% of their TV budgets. Yet fast forward a year and YouTube is taking a much more collaborative approach, saying that TV and online video work best together.

Snapchat has finally launched group conversations, letting the app take on competitors like WhatsApp. The company will allow people to talk to a group of friends -- up to 16 of them -- rather than starting individual conversations with a range of different people.

The rollout of the UK's future 5G mobile network must be handled better than 4G was, according to a new report. The current 4G network ranks only 54th in the world in terms of coverage, the government-appointed experts said. Lord Andrew Adonis, who led the investigation, told the BBC that coverage on the UK's trains and motorways was "frankly appalling."

Video streaming services like Netflix and Amazon are falling short of their potential on mobile devices, according to new research on OTT viewing habits, which shows that 98% of video content is consumed in-home. Market research firm GfK found that while 90% of the UK's OTT users have access to a mobile device, only 4% used smartphones to watch content.

Time Inc UK has credited turning NME free and expansion in events for an increase in "adjusted" revenues and operating profit last year. The publisher of "Country Life" and "TV Times" hailed its annual results, filed at Companies House, as a "significant milestone in the turnaround of the company."

Guardian News & Media has appointed YouTube's former director of global consumer marketing Anna Bateson to the role of vice president, platforms and partnerships. Anna Bateson, who has been working for the business on a consultancy basis since July, will report to Guardian Media Group chief executive David Pemsel and will sit on GNM's executive committee.

Leading German MPs have called for online "fake news" campaigns to be made a crime, amid growing concern that Russia is using social media to influence Western elections. "Targeted disinformation to destabilise a state should be a criminal offence," Patrick Sensburg, a senior MP in Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, said.

Jeremy Clarkson's new motoring show has become the most illegally downloaded television programme in history, figures suggest. Amazon paid a reported $160m (GBP130m) for three series of The Grand Tour, which stars former Top Gear presenters Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, after Clarkson was sacked by the BBC in March 2015.

Apple is tackling an outbreak of spam on iPhone calendars by introducing a button that lets users report the junk appointments. The messages appear as invitations to events but are sent by spammers, not the brands they feature. The "report junk" button has been added to Apple's iCloud.com site and is expected to be included in an iOS update soon.