Apple iPhone owners, rejoice. Apple Pay is now available on the majority of the UK cash registers, "The Telegraph" reports. Back in 2015 when the mobile wallet was launched, few shops accepted the new form of payment, but the company is now claiming that more do now than don't.

"Marketing Week" is reporting that Unilever's Sustainable Living brands are creating 60% of growth within the wider business and growing 50% faster than the remainder of the business.

Social media is harming young people's mental well being and Instagram is the worst culprit, according to a poll reported on in "The Guardian" today. Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter are are also deemed harmful, but YouTube is believed to have a more positive impact.

Theresa May's calling of a snap general election has not seen a boost in the visitor levels at British newspaper Web sites. The top four were slightly down in April from the month before, "Press Gazette" reports.

"Marketing Week" helps break down the manifestos of the main parties through industry heavyweights. Labour comes in for criticism for its proposed junk food ban while the Conservatives' plans to limit immigration are discussed as likely to put the UK at a disadvantage in attracting the best talent.

American customer experience is typically better than in the UK, but now that gap is widening, according to KPMG Nunwood's US Customer Excellence report. "Marketing Week" reveals that the top 100 brands in the US achieved an average score of 7.75 out of 10. In the UK the average figures in September was 7.33. That puts US brands 6% above UK brands, up for a 2% lead last year.

European shoppers do not have a lot of patience. While 70% are willing to spend five minutes in a store to see whether an item is in stock, 30% are unprepared to give it longer than two minutes. Stores that do not have an item available will be shunned for one that does, and a third of shoppers will boycott a retail brand if a single delivery is late, "Marketing Tech News" reports.

Social media and Internet communication services will not like it, but "The Telegraph" is talking up a point in the Conservative manifesto that outlines plans to raise a new levy against them to "support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms." The paper quotes the Prime Minister as insisting that she will move to regulate the Internet more heavily.

The tv executive who oversaw Channel 4's poaching of "The Great British Bake Off" is emerging as the frontrunner to be the channel's next Chief Executive, "The Guardian" reveals. If Jay Moon gets the job she will be the first woman to run a commercial television station larger than Channel 5, the paper confirms.

Social media is being dominated by pro-Labour or anti-Conservative stories, "Press Gazette" reports. Of the top twenty news posts that have been shared the most, nine are pro-Labour and the rest are neutral. Not a single pro-Tory post makes it in the top 20 most-shared league table.