A judge is expected to rule today whether 17 company email accounts used by executives and journalists at News International, the former owner of the News of the World, can be searched for any discussion about the destruction or concealment of emails. It is claimed the company deleted about 20m emails in 2010 and 2011, continuing after police launched a criminal investigation.

The UK's commercial radio sector reaped its largest ever annual advertising revenue total in 2016, with spending worth GBP645.8 million ($986.9 million), according to trade group Radiocentre. 2016's tally was up 5.4% over 2015 and was commercial radio's third consecutive annual revenue gain.

Facebook has stuck its first collaboration with a European ad verification provider, partnering with Meetrics to offer independent third-party verification for the delivery of display and video ads on Facebook services. Acting as an independent provider, Meetrics will offer advertisers new options to verify the viewability and view the duration of their campaigns on Facebook services.

Regulators should investigate the role of Google, Facebook and digital advertising in the spread of fake news, a media body has said. The News Media Association (NMA), which represents national and local publishers, said the digital advertising supply chain which favours fake news and helps it to thrive was "murky at best, fraudulent at worst."

BT has bowed to demands by the telecoms regulator Ofcom to legally separate Openreach, which runs the UK's broadband infrastructure. Ofcom said that Openreach will become a distinct company with its own staff, management and strategy "to serve all of its customers equally." It must consult with customers such as Sky and TalkTalk on major investments.

Theresa May has sought to reassure growing City anxiety about the impact of a "hard" Brexit, promising Wall Street bankers that she will seek to protect London's crucial role as a global financial centre during negotiations with her European counterparts. Sky News has learned that he made an explicit attempt to allay fears about a so-called "cliff-edge" at the point of the UK's EU departure.

Dentsu Aegis Network's Posterscope is partnering with DataSpark, a subsidiary of Singtel,to launch near real-time mobile analytics for strategic planning of out-of-home (OOH) advertising in Singapore. Posterscope will leverage DataSpark's mobility intelligence to show footfall traffic patterns as well as trajectories of audience segments via geospatial capabilities.

The ASA needs to toughen its broadband advertising guidelines according to a Westminster debate. Under current laws, the ASA polices broadband advertising and enforces rules around the speeds that can be advertised. Conversely internet service providers (ISPs) need only provide advertised speeds to 10% of their customers as part of the widely utilised caveat, "up to."

TV accounted for 93.8% of video ads viewed in the UK in 2016 -- far more than YouTube and online video as a whole. To snatch some of that ad revenue, the Google-owned streaming plans new formats that it hopes will exploit the unfettered growth of mobile viewing.

The Premier League has secured a court order to help tackle rights-infringing video streams of football matches via so-called Kodi set-top boxes. The order gives the league the means to have computer servers used to power the streams blocked. Until now, it could only go after individual video streams, which were relatively easy to re-establish at different links.