Weber Shandwick London's "Brutal Cut" Action Aid campaign is the only UK project to be shortlisted for a Glass Lion award at Cannes in a field dominated by US agencies. The Glass awards have been created to recognise work aimed at tackling gender inequality and prejudice, "Campaign" reports.

UK teens are moving toward on-demand tv on their smartphones, research by MediaCom suggests. The figures reveal that one in three teens now regularly watch tv content on their smartphone, up from 25% just a year ago, and 38% say watching tv on demand on a smartphone is their primary way to enjoy programmes.

Dentsu Aegis Network has bought London-based The Customer Framework (TCF), "The Drum" reports. The marketing transformation consultancy will now be referred to as TCF - part of Dentsu Aegis Network.

Media and entertainment marketers are the most confident about growth in their sector, according to a report from Zenith. "Campaign" reveals that the least confident marketers came from the telecoms and food and drink industries.

"The Wall Street Journal" has made a complaint to the European Commission after it says it saw a 96% drop in search referrals. According to "Campaign," the newspaper says its Google performance suffered after pulling out of a scheme through which Google users could access a single story from a subscription-based publisher.

Jason Dormieux, the head of MEC UK, will run the agency formed by WPP merging MEC and Maxus. "Campaign" reveals that the new agency has no official name, but is being referred to as "NewCo" until it launches in January 2018.

They are poles apart when it comes to politics, but "The Sun" and "The Independent" each saw more than a 100% increase in average daily browser levels over the election, Press Gazette reports. The press site also quotes research which shows The Independent had the most social shares of any UK news publisher.

Sky and Virgin Media have come together to offer advertisers a single platform to target VOD watchers on both pay tv platforms, eMarketer reports.

The BBC is claiming security officials have revealed to the corporation that the cyber attacks that crippled parts of the NHS last month came from North Korea.

The chief executive of the publisher of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Murdoch MacLennan, is to step down after 13 years. He will be replaced by Nick Hugh, the group's COO and former European vice president at Yahoo.