Amazon has revealed it is on a hiring spree as it witnesses a surge in demand for deliveries. "City A.M." reveals the company is expecting to take on 100,000 new staff in the US. There has been no announcement whether this will be repeated in the UK.

"The Guardian" is reporting that a tobacco company is being accused of using social media accounts to promote e-cigarettes to get around a ban on using influencer marketing. The accounts, the newspaper has been told, appear to target young adult customers.

"The Independent" is reporting panic buying is hitting Amazon too with the online store suffering shortages of household staples, including toilet rolls and bottled water.

O2 announced it has signed a deal to be the mobile distribution partner for Disney+. "Mobile Marketing" reports this will allow the network to offer a six month free trial to the streaming service for new or upgrading customers.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given initial approval for Future to buy TI Media (formerly IPC Media), creating Europe's largest magazine group, "Campaign" reports.

Mark Lund has been promoted to become president of McCann Worldgroup in the UK and Europe. "Campaign" reveals that Lund joined the company in 2014.

"Sky" has regained its position as the UK's biggest-spending advertiser after dialling up spend 44% in 2019. It overtakes P&G, which reduced its spending by 26%, "Marketing Week" reports.

Has Xbox Live become an early victim of coronavirus? "The Independent" is reporting on problems logging in and keeping games running that many gamers have had which it believes is down to too many people working from home trying to play games at the same time.

Kitchen roll brand, Plenty, is shifting its creative account from Publicis.Poke to Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. Campaign reveals McCann UK was involved in a final three-way shoot out for the business.

The BBC's outgoing Director General has made an impassioned appeal over the weekend for the government not to take the corporation for granted and that streaming services, such as Netflix, "squeeze out British culture" and cannot be relied upon to make British content in the long-term future, "The Guardian" writes.