The gap between digital ad spend and time spent consuming digital media will continue to increase in the medium's favour, eMarketer estimates. This year, just under half of all media attention will be devoted to digital, which will account for 61.7% of all advertising spend in the UK.

In-house agency Oliver will open up a healthcare arm, "The Drum" reports.

YouTube will drop its paid channel service in December. The service allowed users to pay for access to channels, typically from established broadcasters. However, the BBC reports that the service did not take off and will be dropped.

Theresa May is giving the social giants a month to get to a position where they can remove terrorist websites and extremist content within just two hours or face large fines, "The Telegraph" is reporting.

ISBA, the UK trade body for advertisers, claims its tougher new framework for forging agency deals is currently being used by advertisers to renew GBP6bn worth of media spend, Campaign reports.

Sainsbury's has produced the first advertisement shot entirely on Snapchat Spectacles, "Campaign" reveals. The 10-second ad was pushed out to 10 million Snapchat users today.

Uber has instructed lawyers to take action against its mobile advertising agency, Fetch. The Dentsu Aegis agency is being accused of not being clear on ad rebates which, the cab-hailing app claims, has misrepresented its performance in mobile marketing, "The Drum" reveals.

The ingredients used in the Parsons Green "bucket bomb" are routinely sold together on Amazon, Channel 4 News claims, as automated recommendations for additional purchases. Amazon has responded by saying that items must fit its product selling guidelines.

"Press Gazette" is predicting that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could be a shot in the arm for responsible publishers because it will give a boost to those titles that can collect first-party data. At the same time, it will make it more difficult for intermediaries who rely on third-party data. This could simplify digital advertising, the titles suggest.

The BBC will tackle accusations of a "posh" bias in its recruiting policy by barring the people who make hiring decisions from seeing the educational background of applicants. "The Independent" reports that instead, recruiters will only see the level of achievement attained, not where the qualification was earned.