New research from Rakuten Marketing, reported on by Netimperative, suggests that top UK influencers can expect to receive GBP75,000 for a post.

"Campaign" is heralding a second quarter of commercial radio outperforming BBC stations. The latest RAJAR figures show that commercial radio stations grew 3.9% over the past quarter. The BBC had a quiet quarter, although the site reports that the country's most popular station, BBC Radio 2, dropped by nearly 1% over the quarter and is down nearly 2.7% year-on-year.

"The Drum" is taking a look at sports rights, after it has emerged that Amazon is likely to seal ATP tennis rights by outbidding Sky Sports to the tune of GBP10m. The site is now speculating that social media and video giants, such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube could begin to muscle in on lucrative sports rights, meaning that Sky's natural competitor for rights will no longer be just BT.

Sky is set to roll out a four-tier loyalty programme as it faces up to tough competition from Amazon and Netflix, "Campaign" reports. The top tier applies to people who have been with the broadcaster for fifteen years and who will be offered a free upgrade to its higher-definition, multi-room service, Sky Q.

"The Times" is reporting that Amazon has outbid Sky for the rights to tennis' ATP World Tour. The final price is expected to be around GBP10m a year for rights to the ATP Masters 1000 and 500 Tournaments from 2019 onwards.

Profits have soared 42% year-on-year for the first half of the year at the i newspaper Johnston bought a year ago but a near 12% drop in print advertising revenue saw an overall 3% decline in revenue for the newspaper group. "Press Gazette" reports a decline in classified revenue was the major cause of tumbling ad receipts.

As eMarketer plots massive growth in Western Europe's digital travel market, the UK is set to experience its second biggest growth this year of just over 7% The rise is only eclipsed by last year's near 10% growth. This year, the researchers estimate, the UK digital travel market will be worth GBP26.24bn.

YouTube is claiming that its machine-learning tools have doubled the speed at which it can spot and remove extremist content, "Campaign" reports. The Google-owned video platform claims that three in four offending videos are now removed before they have been flagged up by a human.

Consumer confidence edged up between June to July, according to the latest index from YouGov and the Centre for Economics and Business Research. "Campaign" reveals that the score shows confidence is below the level seen before the election as well as last June's EU referendum.

"The Telegraph" reports that privacy campaigners are concerned by apparent plans at Google to collate data from retailer's loyalty cards and combine it with browsing behaviour to get a better understanding of customer behaviour. The internet giant has already launched such a project in the US, using credit and debit card details, which is the subject of a legal challenge.