"The Guardian" is accusing WPP of double standards over gun control. While a previous sustainability report from the company has tried to claim the holding group has worked pro bono for a gun control group, it has actually received over a million pounds worth of business from the National Rifle Association.

Unilever is backing voice search to allow customers to discover and interact with its many brands, according to "Marketing Week." The FMCG confirmed last week at the Festival of Marketing in London that it believes comScore's prediction that a half of all search will be via voice by 2020 and so assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa, are an exciting new way to engage customers.

OMD's EMEA President Nikki Mendonca is leaving the agency to take up the new global role of President of Intelligent Marketing Operations at Accenture, "Campaign" reveals.

Research from Forex Bonuses has ranked the UK the third-most cashless society in the world, behind Canada in pole position and Sweden. France was fourth and the USA was fifth. Germany, the EU's largest economy, was ranked in eight place, "The Telegraph" reports.

Retailers can breathe a sigh of relief -- shopper spending was up just under 2% last month, year-on-year. Sky News reports this was largely fuelled by back-to-school clothing and equipment and winter wardrobe shopping. Big-ticket items were down year-on-year.

Dove has apologised for an advert which showed a black woman becoming white after using one of the brand's skin products, The Telegraph reports.

The Labour party is calling for phone and computer hacking at News UK titles to be considered when establishing if Murdoch should be allowed to take full control of Sky. The call comes after the publisher admitted charges of hacking a former army intelligence officer, "The Guardian" reveals.

Two in five marketers find programmatic on mobile more challenging than on desktop, yet 60% are planning to pump more budget into the channel, new research reported by Netimperative finds.

The British Retail Consortium is warning consumers they face retail price hikes over Brexit as staff from EU countries decide to leave the UK or not apply for new positions. It says this has the potential to cause a shortage in staff and push up wages, which will in turn lead to higher prices, Sky News reports.

Rumours of the traditional route to mass market advertising are seemingly unfounded as P&G's marketing chief, Marc Pritchard, tells "Campaign" that the channel represents an attractive niche in a two-horse race with digital.