Campaign
ITV has launched an interactive outdoor campaign to promote this weekend's debut of The Voice U,K which features the show's judges spinning round to greet shopping centre visitors. The week-long campaign, created by ITV's media agency Goodstuff and Talon Outdoor, comprises digital screens featuring the singing talent show's four coaches, who spin around when shoppers are nearby.
The Guardian
Max Mosley has dismissed fears voiced across the newspaper industry of crippling legal costs if a controversial new media regulation law is enacted. The comments by Mosley -- who funds the state-backed press regulator Impress, which has failed to gain the backing of any leading newspapers -- follow claims by the "Sun" editor, Tony Gallagher, that the law is an attempt to "blackmail" the press.
The Telegraph
Amazon has designed a floating warehouse that sits thousands of feet in the air, from which the Internet retailer could dispatch swarms of delivery drones to metropolitan areas. Flying at up to 45,000 feet, the warehouses would be suspended by cables from zeppelin-style airships, and stocked with popular items.
BBC
The UK government's lack of support for start-ups attending the CES tech show is a "source of embarrassment", according to the event's organiser. Gary Shapiro compared the UK unfavourably with France, the Netherlands and Israel. The head of one British firm at the event said the criticism was well-founded. The UK's Department for International Trade said it was providing "targeted support."
Independent.co.uk
The UK's Investigatory Powers Act came in to effect on December 30th, placing Britain under some of the widest-ranging spying powers ever seen. The law is intended as an update to Britain's often unwieldy surveillance legislation. But it also includes a large set of new powers -- including the ability to collect the browsing records of everyone in the country and have them read by authorities.
Press Gazette
The Sunday Times has warned that its historic exposure of drugs with cyclist Lance Armstrong would never have happened had Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act been enacted. It has published a form urging readers to respond to a Government consultation and urging them to back the scrapping of both Section 40 and part two of the Leveson Inquiry.
Sky News
ITV has begun laying the groundwork for the departure of Adam Crozier, its chief executive, by hiring headhunters to oversee succession planning for two of the biggest jobs in the British media industry. ITV's nominations committee has appointed Spencer Stuart to map out long-term options for replacing both Mr Crozier and Ian Griffiths, ITV's group finance director.
Campaign
Change4Life has launched a food tracker app in its annual January health push, helping parents keep an eye on kids' salt, sugar and fat intake. Be Food Smart builds on Public Health England's sugar tracking app last year. The latter was a runaway success with more than two million downloads.
The Drum
Peta has taken over an entire London Tube station with posters encouraging people to go vegan. The animal rights group took up advertising space on every door, poster and turnstile in Clapham Common station in an attempt to capitalise on "Veganuary", a campaign to get people to try cutting out dairy and meat products from their diets in the first month of 2017.
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