The U.K.'s intelligence agencies see British people's Google searches and communications sent over services such as Facebook as fair game for interception when the relevant servers are based outside the country, the British counter-terrorism chief has told a surveillance court.

Fluffy felines and fast cars are more likely to tickle UK viewers' attention spans, with 61% staying tuned until the end of the clip, according to new figures. Research from Coull based itself on the data from 12m video plays during May, also finding that humans featuring in videos retained attention, as well as blogs (52%) with travel and events also scoring well (51%).

Independent artists could disappear from YouTube "in a matter of days" after the Google video service confirmed it was dropping content from independent labels that have not signed up for its upcoming subscription music service. YouTube is about to begin testing the new service - which will charge people to watch and listen to music without ads, and download songs to their mobile devices - within the next few days, initially within Google.

The project, which creates "video content around people at the intersection between art and technology" and beat entries from MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum last year to win a best art website accolade, is now venturing into Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands and Spain following launches last month in Australia and New Zealand.

Financial Times CEO John Ridding said: "Digital readership is now two-thirds of our total paying audience, digital revenue accounts for 35% of the total, and mobile drives almost half of all traffic to FT.com. The initiative gives staff the opportunity to listen to experts discuss the latest trends and innovations in technology, as well as time to try new tools and attend creative workshops to stimulate new thinking."

It's been said for years that the page view is dead as a way to measure media on the web. Now, finally, there may be a replacement. Advertisers and publishers are increasingly asking if "time" or "attention" - proven time spent engaging with media - can work instead. They're hoping that by using technology to show that someone spent a specified amount of time engaging with a page while an ad was in view, they'll solve quandaries posed by current metrics.

Beats Music got a lot of press Monday for nabbing the exclusive rights to a track that features Jay Z. The deal was seen by some as a sign that Beats may take a cue from Netflix and battle competitors like Spotify with exclusive content deals. But the future of music subscription services isn't about exclusive deals - it's about binging.

The Daily Mail's website, Mail Online, has taken on former BuzzFeed president and chief operating officer Jon Steinberg. Steinberg, who held the position at BuzzFeed for four years, has been appointed North America chief executive officer of Mail Online. Steinberg described himself as a "huge fan" of Mail Online's "editorial content that is second to none when it comes to entertainment, breaking news and telling the stories of the day that matter".

Oxford Mail has set up a new service through WhatsApp, the private messaging smartphone application, to deliver the most important news straight to the reader's pocket. "It's much more direct in turning around saying 'come and read our story'," Jason Collie, assistant editor of the Mail told Journalism.co.uk.

5G is coming - slowly and hazily - and, having been a leader in 3G but a follower in 4G, Europe wants to be back at the forefront this time. But if that happens, it won't get there alone: on Monday, the European Commission revealed a "landmark" agreement with South Korea regarding 5G's development.