Amazon is taking on the likes of Asos, "Marketing Week" reports. Just a week after announcing the purchase of Whole Foods for just over GBP10bn, the ecommerce powerhouse is now trialling Prime Wardrobe, a subscription-based service that allows customers to order a range of clothing with no up-front charge, giving them a week to decide what they want to keep and pay for.

Cabinet ministers, ambassadors and senior police officers have had their passwords stolen and sold by Russian hackers, an investigation by "The Times" has discovered. Among the 1,000 MPs and parliament staff affected by attacks on LinkedIn, MySpace and other site in 2012 are the UK's education secretary and business secretary.

Facebook will train and fund organisations devoted to combating extremism. Its UK Online Civil Courage Initiative has already been signed up to by Imams Online and the Jo Cox Foundation, the BBC reports.

The FA has severed all sponsorship ties with gambling companies, following a three-month review, "The Drum" reveals. The organisation had only recently replaced William Hill with Ladbroke's as its official betting partner, but believes the custodian of football should no longer be so closely associated with bookmakers.

Adam & Eve/DDB and FCB Inferno are the headlines for the UK in this year's Cannes Lions Creative Effectiveness awards. Adam & Eve/DDB is shortlisted for the "Man on the Moon" and "Tiny Dancer" campaigns for John Lewis.

The first ever Pride In London tv ad debuts tomorrow. Created by WRCS, the ad features four characters apologising to loved ones whom they did not support when they opened up about their sexuality or gender orientation. It is timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the end of the bar on legal sex in the UK and can be viewed on "Campaign" ahead of tomorrow's Channel 4 debut.

BA's director of customer experience, Troy Warfield, has departed after only 18 months in the role. No reason has been given, and there is no immediate successor. "Marketing Week" is linking the move with the fallout of the recent IT failure that left tens of thousands of passengers stranded.

First the good news: GroupM is forecasting that the UK will experience its eighth successive year of ad spend growth, hitting GBP18.6bn this year. The bad news? According to The Drum, this is a downgrade from 7% growth to 4.1%.

Many people in adland will find themselves agreeing with John Allan today when the chairman of Tesco speaks at an event run by lobby group London First that an immigration could hurt British businesses. Instead of caps and quotas, Allan is expected to call for an "intelligent debate" that leads to an "intelligent regime," according to "The Times."

The study appears to be rather self-serving but figures from Nielsen Catalina Solutions, and presented to Campaign via Spotify, show that ads on the music streaming service generate 25% more revenue compared to other ad services. For every thousand ads served, the industry benchmark is $19.64 worth of revenue income compared to $25 on Spotify, according to the study's findings.