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• IPA Fantasy Football.the results are in!

  IPA News - 1 minute ago

  Manchester City's dramatic title win signalled an exhilarating end to the 2012 Premier League, with emotions running high up until the very last second. Following this remarkable conclusion to the season, are you wondering how your team fared in the IPA's Fantasy Football League? Have you managed to clinch the top spot or have the frantic results of the final fixtures left you lagging behind? Well you need wait no longer, the results are in.

  • FA Premier League
  • Manchester City F.C.

• Call Your Doctor If This 'Workaholics' Billboard Lasts More Than 4 Hours

  Mediaweek (US) - 1 minute ago

  Comedy Central's "Fully Torqued" phallic billboard on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard touting the new season of its Workaholics sitcom is awfully silly. TMZ claiming that its coverage of the sign is an "Exclu-Stiff" is even sillier. The show follows the lives of three recent college grads—and they finished cum laude, judging from that billboard.

  • Billboard
  • Phallus
  • Comedy Central
  • Total Recall
  • HBO

• Mass Relevance secures $3.3m for social curation

  Chris Marlowe @ - 5 minutes ago

  Mass Relevance, which specializes in social curation and integration technology, closed $3. 3 million in venture capital funding in a round led by Austin Ventures.

  • Golden Globe Awards
  • Mike Dodd
  • Thomson-Reuters Corporation
  • Al Jazeera
  • MTV Networks
  • Samsung Group
  • Cisco Systems, Inc.

• London Olympics 2012 diver Tom Daley to launch iPhone app

  Lisa O'Carroll @ MediaGuardian - Mobile - 11 minutes ago

  British 18-year-old who made the finals in Beijing aims to raise awareness of the sport.

  • Tate Gallery, Britain
  • David Beckham
  • Evening Standard
  • Guardian Media Group
  • 2012 Summer Olympics
  • iPhone
  • Thomas Daley
  • News International
  • Twitter
  • Vodafone Ireland

• Pottermore adds Kobo as a Harry Potter e-book partner

  Laura Hazard Owen @ Paidcontent:uk - 48 minutes ago

  Pottermore has partnered with Kobo to make the Harry Potter e-books available on Kobo devices.

  • ebook
  • Sony Reader
  • iPad
  • Amazon Kindle
  • Amazon.com
  • Harry Potter Universe
  • Google
  • Apple
  • Sony

• NPR corporate underwriting and fundraising down, cuts possible

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 52 minutes ago

  The Washington Post | Poynter NPR finished the first six months of its fiscal year $2. 6 million in the hole, Paul Farhi reports, and its corporate underwriting, which The Post less politely calls “advertising,” is down sharply. The… Read more.

  • Disc jockey
  • Michel Martin
  • National Public Radio
  • Public broadcasting
  • The Washington Post
  • Advertising
  • Dane Cook

• Production techniques in cosmetics advertising: 12 months on

  CAP News - 58 minutes ago

  In April 2011, CAP and BCAP launched a Help Note on the use of production techniques in cosmetics advertising. How has that guidance impacted on complaint levels and ASA adjudications over the past 12 months?.

  • Advertising
  • Advertising Standards Authority

• Advergames

  CAP News - 58 minutes ago

  What are advergames, which rules apply and what is the ASA’s experience of regulating them?.

• Rajars: Radio news listening down across the board

  Journalism.co.uk - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

  BBC Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, local radio, LBC and Talksport all experience year-on-year falls in weekly listener numbers.

  • BBC Radio Five Live
  • BBC Radio 4
  • TalkSPORT
  • LBC

• Russia’s state piracy monitor could empower copyright owners

  Robert Andrews @ PaidContent - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

  In a land whose leading social network includes baked-in file-sharing, the government seems keen on encouraging a legal digital media ecosystem.

  • File sharing
  • Pay TV
  • Social network
  • Ian Hargreaves
  • Copyright
  • Vkontakte
  • Rostelecom
  • Facebook