Applications are now open for Ocean Outdoor’s annual environmental fund, Drops in the Ocean. The Digital Out of Home (DOOH) advertising company is seeking six partners to champion their work and build public support in 2026. Now in its fifth year, Drops in the Ocean sees Ocean donates 2% of the company’s annual reported revenue in screen space to environmental organisations and international causes associated with the preservation of the planet. The programme gives beneficiaries a chance to appear at scale across some of Ocean’s premium DOOH advertising locations in 18 UK cities. Over the past four years, Ocean has given close to £9million in DOOH space to 25 different non-profits to raise funding, campaign for conservation and progress important land and sea based projects both in the UK and overseas. The closing date for applications is 30th January 2026. Submissions are invited online https://oceanoutdoor.com/sustainability/dropsintheocean/
Debenhams Group, home to Debenhams, PrettyLittleThing, boohoo, boohooMAN, and Karen Millen, today announced the renewal of its long-term strategic partnership with Mirakl, the leading provider of eCommerce software solutions. The renewed agreement also includes a new retail media platform, powered by Mirakl Ads, further strengthening Debenhams Group’s proprietary technology ecosystem. The Debenhams brand surged 34% to £654 million in GMV in FY25, far outpacing the UK’s 5.8% e-commerce growth rate and establishing it as one of the country’s fastest-growing digital marketplaces. With the launch of Mirakl Ads, all 15,000+ brands already selling on Debenhams’ marketplace – from global to emerging brands – now have access to powerful, self-service advertising tools to promote their products to Debenhams’ 300 million annual visitors, driving incremental sales.
Kochava recently announced its new integrative AI layer, StationOne, a tool that organises and manages your AI-powered chats, knowledge collections and pre-prompts in one easy to use workspace. The tool can connect to any AI model and even custom models to create one integrative hub for your day-to-day role. StationOne acts as an orchestration layer that empowers individuals to deploy AI as a human extension, not a replacement and eliminates the laborious data entry and management processes workers experience as they fold new AI tools into their workflows. Anyone in the marketing ecosystem can now connect external data sources and tools with any large language model and make use of pre-prompt templates to deliver seamless results.
A new analysis has uncovered rampant non-compliance amongst popular TikTok ‘finfluencers’ (content creators that share financial advice on social media), with 68% of posts breaking Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules. The findings follow three British finfluencers appearing in court after being charged with unauthorised promotion of high-risk financial products, as the FCA spearheads a crackdown on illegal financial promotions (FinProm) by social media content creators. The analysis was conducted by leading FinProm compliance platform Adclear to uncover the extent of non-compliance by finfluencers, as AI and user-generated content runs rampant. They analysed 40 of the most-viewed finfluencer TikToks in the UK this year. Adclear’s AI-powered platform tested each video against FCA rules, and found that a staggering 68% failed to comply – with 27 of the 40 TikToks studied breaching official regulations.
Cellnex UK, together with its IT provider Freestyle-TS, has joined forces with Reconome and Good Things Foundation to give a second life to IT devices through the National Device Bank. The partnership will help to bridge the UK’s digital divide whilst preventing valuable equipment from ending up in landfill. So far, the collaboration has led to 325 devices being refurbished and 75 tonnes of avoided carbon emissions, the same as the amount of carbon captured by over 3,400 trees each year, as well as 737kg of e-waste being diverted from landfill. Reconome is responsible for refurbishing and preparing the devices for reuse, ensuring they will soon support people across the UK through Good Things Foundation’s National Device Bank. Through the National Device Bank, individuals facing digital exclusion can access the technology they need to get online, connect to essential services, and improve their opportunities in education, work, and daily life.
Chargebee, a leading billing and monetisation platform, today announced that Future, the global platform for specialist media, has selected Chargebee as its enterprise subscription management partner in a multi-year agreement that will transform subscription operations across Future’s portfolio of more than seventy print and digital magazine brands. The partnership accelerates Future’s evolution as an innovative, digitally-driven media company by unifying its billing and subscription systems under Chargebee’s end-to-end monetisation platform.
The latest research from proprietary VOD market intelligence tool, ScreenThink from MTM, reveals a significant shift in consumer behaviour, with 63% of UK SVOD (subscription video on demand) users saying they’re currently ‘subscription cycling’ each month or open to doing so. This is the practice of dipping in and out of different services to follow specific shows or chase the best deal. This trend highlights a fundamental change in how people perceive and manage their entertainment subscriptions and a more volatile chapter in video streaming. Additionally, the report revealed that, while overall access to paid streaming services has hit a new peak of 67% of the UK online population, this growth is precarious, with fragile and increasingly transactional relationships between viewers and platforms becoming the norm.
