The campaign, created by CHI&Partners, Mindshare and The Social Practice, will invite viewers of four prime time programmes to suggest the most imaginative gift for Santa from Argos' Christmas gift guide using the #giftforsanta hashtag on Twitter during ad breaks. In the final ad break the most creative of these will be read out live on air by Bill Nighy and Claire Skinner.

WhatsApp, which has a global active users' base of 350 million, is said to be the most popular messaging app in the UK and is currently used by half the country's iPhone users, according to a report from Mobile Marketing Magazine. One more report from mobileYouth, cited by the Guardian, revealed that about half of the photos on Instagram comes from 14 to 21-year-olds.

Hundreds of strangers have turned out for the funeral of a second world war veteran after undertakers put out an appeal for mourners to attend his service. Uniformed veterans, teenage air cadets and serving members of the armed forces joined members of the public at the funeral of Harold Jellicoe Percival, known as Coe, who died in a nursing home in Lytham St Annes, near Blackpool in Lancashire, last month. Percival, who served as ground crew with RAF Bomber Command, never married and had no children, and funeral directors feared no one would attend his cremation on Monday morning.

Vox Media, the company behind SB Nation and The Verge, is acquiring the Curbed network of real estate and food blogs for about $25 million, according to multiple news reports. It's one of the few large-scale, digital-native content acquisitions in recent memory - as opposed to the usual phenomenon of traditional media outlets buying online players to get a little digital credibility - and the deal has some media observers like Felix Salmon at Reuters musing about who might be best placed to build a Time Inc.-style digital-content behemoth. But is that really something we want or need?

The Evening Standard has relaunched its iOS app as a hybrid of digital and PDF, the first in a number of impending updates and new launches from ESI Media, in the lead up to the opening of multiplatform broadcaster London Live next spring. ESI Media, the commercial arm of the Evening Standard, The Independent and i, launched the app yesterday alongside a redesign of The Independent's website (see before and after image, below) and print editions, with an app to follow before Christmas.

Without any fanfare, the Sunday People's new website is up and running. It is doubtful if too many surfers have noticed that People.co.ukis available, not least because if you Google "Sunday People" it is not listed. Much more bizarre is the fact that the Sunday People section of the Mirror's website does not provide a link to the new site. But it was launched on Tuesday (5 November) under the slogan "news without the boring bits".

The 17 per cent drop to a global circulation of just over 240,000 a day came in the same month that the paper announced plans to have a small print-focused team and concentrate most editorial resources on digital. The FT currently has some 340,000 digital subscribers and sells just under 50,000 copies a day in the UK. Among the dailies The Guardian was the best-performing title in print (in relative terms), falling by 1.9 per cent year on year to just under 200,000 copies a day.

The staff members are the only two assigned to the sites but a spokesman told The Drum that the community sites will remain open if the redundancies are confirmed, and will instead be moderated by members of staff in other departments. The spokesman said that the sites had not achieved the audience numbers that the company had hoped for over the last year. A decision on the two redundancies are expected in the next two or three weeks.

Media Scotland has announced the appointment of Gordon Stevenson as head of digital and an expanded role for Dave Bohill as digital editor. Both previously worked for Media Scotland, with Stevenson holding the role of digital development manager and Bohill as online editor. Allan Rennie, editor in chief of Media Scotland, said: "We have seen big audience increases - especially on mobile - driven by news exclusives, our bedroom tax campaign, increased video and picture galleries and football blogs.

A French court has ordered Google to remove links that take users to nine explicit images of former Formula One chief Max Mosley at an orgy with prostitutes. In 2008, Mosley sued the defunct News of the World after it published a front-page story by filming Mosley with five prostitutes at a self-organised orgy. Mosley has admitted being in sado-masochistic 'romp' with the five women and shelled out GBP2,500, while rejected the orgy was Nazi-themed.