Campaign
Food delivery service Just Eat has signed a two-year sponsorship deal for ITV2's "Love Island" show when the show starts up again next year. "Campaign" confirms the agreement covers both installments on the show as it moves to running twice per year.
The Guardian
Instagram will extend its ban on self-harm content to include cartoons and drawings. "The Guardian" reports that the move comes after an appeal from the father of Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017.
The Times
MPs will investigate whether the Government's expensive "Get Ready for Brexit" campaign is having any tangible effect and whether it has misled the public on the date the UK leaves the EU, The Times reports
Campaign
McVitie's has appointed TBWA\London as its new creative shop and Manning Gottlieb as its media buying and planning agency. "Campaign" reveals that the two Omnicom agencies will work across the company-wide range of biscuit and snack brands.
The Drum
S4C is merging MightyHive with UK digital analytics firm ConversionWorks and South Korean data business, Datalicious Korea. "The Drum" confirms the enlarged business will retain the MightyHive name.
The Times
"The Telegraph" has been placed up for sale, according to "The Times." The Barclay brothers, who own the daily and Sunday editions of the paper, are believed to have carried out a review of their investments that has led to the newspaper brands now being up for sale.
Press Gazette
Ofcom not only told the BBC it must do more to reach younger viewers and listeners, but has issued separate guidance to BBC News, suggesting that it must do more to link to outside organisations. "Press Gazette" reveals that 85% of links are to internal pages and of those that are external, only around a third of these link to other publishers.
Sky News
Mobile marketing execs can rejoice. "Sky News" is reporting on a billion pound agreement among the UK's "big four" mobile carriers to share infrastructure so they ensure 4G "not spots" are eradicated. The move will see 4G brought to 95% of areas by 2025.
Campaign
Consumers ages 55 and over do not want boring brands. According to research from Brilliant Noise, featured in Campaign, 70% in the age group want "sexy" and:'inspiring" brands.
MediaTel
Mediatel deems that a 0.7% growth in European revenue for WPP is offsetting a weak performance in the US and allowing the company to return to growth, for the first time in a year, during Q3.