British broadcasting company ITV will become the first broadcaster to feature a product placed brand on a UK-produced television programme, partnering with Nestle to see the Dulce Gusto coffee brand highlighted during “This Morning” later today. BrandRepublic reportsthe deal is expected to earn ITV up to £100,000 for allowing product placement on one of its programmes and comes after a recent change in the Broadcasting Code by media regulator Ofcom which come into effect today....

It’s 2020, your team’s mental health and morale should be a priority by now The impact on employees If one positive has come out of the pandemic it’s that, in general, employers have largely woken up to the fact that mental health and wellness are incredibly important. It’s also helped to highlight pay-based inequalities between senior roles and more junior positions — let’s face it working from home is an entirely different experience if you have the ‘luxury’ of being able to set up base in a spare room....

Twitter launched itstopics featurealmost two years ago to group tweets under different interest categories. It’s nice to see tweets or news on topics that I care about on my timeline. However, sometimes the social network’s tagging goes horribly wrong. The funniest example I’ve seen is of the algorithm tagging cat pictures under dog topic (and vice versa). Here are some examples: I do so hate the Twitter algorithm suggestions, but this one takes the prize for perfect stupidity in highlighting that it’s wrong: a picture of a cat in the Twitter feed of the cat, with cat in the name, beneath ‘Dogs Follow Topic’....

It’s 2021, and the Netherlands still invests millions to support cycling Car-sharing In addition to promoting active travel, other Dutch cities such as Amsterdam have focused on increasing car-sharing options in a bid to reduce the overall number of private cars on the roads. The city has more shared cars than anywhere else in the country, and recently won the 2020 Autodeel Award – hosted by environmental groupNatuur & Milieuand theDutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management– for its efforts....

“Cyberflashing” – the unsolicited sending of photos or videos of genitals – may soon be acrimein England and Wales. Surveys have foundthatnearly halfof young adult women have been sent unwanted, graphic images by men. Receiving so-calleddick picsis especially common among women who use dating apps. In some high-profile cases, people have even beenAirDropped imagesby thehundredswhile traveling on public transport. In 2019,British Transport Police foundthat 88% of those targeted were women....