"The Guardian" is reporting that the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV have held early talks about the possibility of coming together to form a joint Netflix-style streaming service. The talks are also believed to involve NBC Universal.

Virgin Media is closing a call centre in Swansea with the potential loss of nearly 800 jobs, "The Guardian" reports. It is part of a plan for the company to halve the number of customer hubs it deploys across the UK.

Harrods has appointed Amanda Hill, the former chief brand officer at BBC Worldwide, to its newly created role of chief marketing and customer officer, "Campaign" reports.

Richard Branson has announced that he is deeply concerned by the growing number of advertisements claiming he is endorsing bitcoin schemes, "The Drum" reports. He is warning the public about many of the "get rich" schemes featuring fake endorsements.

The BuzzFeed UK editorial team has won the right to a postal ballot on whether the National Union of Journalists should be recognised and enabled to carry out collective pay bargaining on wages, "Press Gazette" reveals. The site reports workers wanted a postal ballot because they were concerned that votes would be swayed if they were cast in their office in front of managers.

The ICO has told "Sky News" that the inquiry into Cambridge Analytica will carry on despite the closing of the company. The data watchdog says its investigations could still potentially bring charges against individuals, if evidence of illegal activity is detected.

Several large UK publishers have signed up to new best practice advertising guidelines set out by the AOP and JICWEBS, Netimperative reports. The new guidelines allow for more accurate classifications of business categories that publishers work in and allow companies to show they are going above and beyond baseline standards.

Executives watching the march of the consultancies might want to take a look at "Campaign" today. It has counted up that Accenture Interactive has hit 25,000 members of staff as it takes on an extension to its digital brief with Radisson Hotel Group to also handle its global customer experience brief.

Lidl has announced that it is scaling back on its digital media investment because it is not seeing the same level of engagement or value for budget as it gets from other channels -- particularly television, "Marketing Week" reveals.

Sovrn, the company that helps publishers maximise revenue, has become the first significant partner of the anti-fake news service, Factmata, MarTechAdvisor reports. The machine-learning platform is designed to help alert publishers to fake news and has been invested in by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.