Hollywood film franchise fatigue drives down global ticket sales Cinemagoers spent almost $19bn in first six months of the year, down from $20.2bn in 2018
Ofcom wants laws to protect UK companies’ public service content Attempt to stop content being buried in on-demand services of Sky and Virgin Media
Google and Facebook under scrutiny over UK ad market dominance Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data
Leslie Creasey obituary Other Lives ‘Mr Concept’ who melded design and marketing in brand extensions for household names
Evening Standard reports £11.5m loss amid ad struggles Free London newspaper edited by George Osborne has not been in the black since 2016
Unilever boss says brands using ‘woke-washing’ destroy trust Firms that adopt worthy causes must also ‘walk the talk’, Alan Jope tells Cannes conference
William Hill and Paddy Power ads appeared in app aimed at children Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck ‘accidentally’ appeared in Looney Tunes World of Mayhem video game
Head of ITV comedy drops all-male writing teams Head of comedy tells festival that there are a ‘significant lack’ of women and an ‘awful lot’ of all-male teams
Up to 90% of Channel 4 staff expected to quit rather than move to Leeds Generous redundancy payments pushing cost of moving HQ from London broadcaster above £50m
Will new John Lewis boss ditch Never Knowingly Undersold? Only a rank outsider like new chairman Sharon White could stop the age-old price-pledge battering profits
The Sun faces major job cuts as publisher seeks to slash costs News Group Newspapers will initially look for voluntary redundancies to make savings
Sharon White leaves Ofcom to join John Lewis Partnership Retail group appoints the 52-year-old as chairman on near-£1m salary
If Netflix decided to show ads, revenues really might start streaming in The company is pushing through a price rise as new rivals prepare to launch. But it could always fund itself another way
The Guardian view on cricket: play the game Editorial: The game is shrinking in its homeland, but it still thrills hundreds of thousands
Mail Online ad revenues soar as print stablemates suffer Daily Mail and General Trust shares rise on news of 25% digital advertising growth