Le ministre délégué au Budget, Jérôme Cahuzac, a évoqué le possible rétablissement de la publicité après 20 heures sur les chaînes publiques. Cela dépendra de la décision de Bruxelles sur la taxe télécoms.

• Rapier has gone into administration after 24-years, following client budget cuts and a series of account losses, including RAC and Yell.

• Everything Everywhere has denied claims it is planning to drop its Orange and T-Mobile brands at the end of the first quarter of next year, saying it will create a new brand to sit alongside them.

• Dentsu's £3.16bn takeover of Aegis Group, owner of the networks Carat and Isobar, moved closer to completion yesterday when Aegis' shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of the deal.

• Aviva and other non-Olympic sponsors are running advertising in today's newspapers featuring Olympic athletes as they seek to take advantage of the end of the advertising blackout period.