European video advertising platform Ebuzzing has posted a 50% year-on-year increase in revenues from $20m in the first half of 2012 to $30m in the first half of 2013. The company, which creates and distributes video ads around the world through placements within social media and premium video properties, saw strong business growth in the UK, Spain, Italy and Germany.

Telegraph Media Group has partnered with Vodafone UK in order to launch a price plan that includes an iPad with a data plan and a digital subscription to the Telegraph. The offer will provide customers with an iPad, 2GB internet access as well as a daily digital subscription to the Telegraph.

Political magazine The Spectator made an operating loss of GBP500,000 in 2012, according to its chairman. In a statement to coincide with the magazine filing its financial result with Companies House, Andrew Neil admitted the year had been "disappointing" but said things were improving. He blamed the loss on one-off digital costs. Neil added that the company had made a profit of GBP400,000 already in the first six months of the current financial year.

Much of the attention in the digital-media sphere tends to get focused on relative upstarts like BuzzFeed, or dramatic moves like Andrew Sullivan's go-it-alone blogging effort, and with good reason. But meanwhile, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton keeps on methodically trying to re-engineer the entire way that content works online - not to mention reshaping the relationship between Gawker as a publisher and what Jay Rosen and Dan Gillmor have referred to as "the people formerly known as the audience."

A 21-year-old man has been arrested over abusive messages sent to freelance journalist Caroline Criado-Perez on Twitter. The man - who is said to be from Manchester - made threats of rape against Criado-Perez after she appeared on television to promote the use of famous women on English banknotes, Sky News reports. Criado-Perez tweeted to confirm the arrest, adding: "Just at the police station now about to make a formal statement. There are many more threats to report. #shoutingback."

Twitter has come under increasing pressure to review its abuse-reporting systems after the Labour MP Stella Creasy was threatened with rape for supporting the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez. Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow in east London, retweeted some of the messages she had received on the micro-blogging site, adding that such behaviour would have consequences.

Official Comedy is the first Spotify app to focus on comedy. It was launched today by US media company Bedrocket Media Ventures as a spin-off from its Official Comedy channel on YouTube. Its Spotify app is based around playlists for comedians and themes. The former range from Monty Python, Billy Connolly and Bill Hicks to current stars including Aziz Ansari, Louis C.K. and Sarah Silverman. Themes include the royal baby, drink and drugs, racial disharmony and sex scandals.

About 80% of 11- to 15-year-old Internet surfers use false ages when visiting social media sites, according to a survey by the UK advertising regulator. Advertising Standards Authority has criticised the 'negligent' age verification systems adopted by social networking websites such as Facebook. The survey revealed that about ten children, (42%) registered themselves as aged 18 or over, with nine of them being below the permitted age of registration on at least a social media website.

The figures about magazines on the iPad that are bandied about, generally involving a big percentage rise on an unspecified base, are bandied by people who want to sell you something. If you want to know the truth go to the people who've done it, picked the arrows out of their backs and signed the cheques.

Bloomberg Media has named Justin Smith chief executive as it looks to strengthen its digital offering. Smith has made a name for himself in the publishing industries thanks to his forward-thinking approach to digital.He most recently served as president of Atlantic Media Group where he transformed its digital strategy and reinvented The Atlantic, a 156-year-old print magazine, with its multiplatform offering.