Future appoints digital commercial director in the UK Future has appointed Nick King to the position of digital commercial director in the UK.

mediaIDEAS dataPoint: December 2011 US app downloads This week's mediaIDEAS dataPoint compares app downloads in the United States across e-deading device platforms for December 2011.

46 free social media monitoring tools Who does what, where and how? Are you measuring up against your competition? There’s a lot of social media buzz going on. What are they talking about your brand and your company?

Battle of the smartphones Smartphones are becoming pervasive: more than half the UK population has a phone that can browse the internet and run apps, and nearly half of US mobile users do too.

FIPP members entitled to discount at online advertising event TheMediaBriefing has organised an event on 3 February in London, UK, focusing on innovations in online display advertising, and FIPP members are entitled to a 15 per cent discount off the delegate rate.