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Facebook made a small update to its video product on Monday that points the way to a potentially big business.

Videos uploaded to Facebook using the social network’s own video player will now publicly display how many views they receive. Facebook’s YouTube-like move is an attempt to show online video networks and advertisers how Facebook’s ability to attract audiences compares with YouTube’s as the social network looks to rival Google’s dominant online video service.

“Views themselves don’t really lead to anything overtly commercial at this stage. But in the world of video, views are the currency of the marketplace so having an idea how your videos is performing is important,” said an executive at one network that uploads videos to YouTube.

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Official viewing figures for UK television audiences will now include consumption on iPads and Android tablets following an overhaul of the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board.

Tesco is embarking on a last-ditch attempt to register the word ‘Clubcard’ as a trademark, a month after its attempt to register the dashes under the word ‘Tesco’ was denied.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced they are expecting a second child and it hasn’t taken brands long to shoehorn their way into the news.

Reebok has released an online brand film celebrating youth culture for its Classics range of footwear.

ESI Media, the owners of the London Evening Standard, the Independent, i and London Live has promoted head of newspapers, James White, to head of trading.

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ITV’s chief executive Adam Crozier is calling on the major pay-TV platforms, BSkyB and Virgin Media, to pay to carry the content from UK public service broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

For the Citizens’ Arrest of a Fugitive Big Banker

From Adbusters #116: Blueprint for a New World, Part 5: Politico

$1000 reward to be paid by Adbusters for the public apprehension and arrest of any of these fugitives from justice charged with financial crimes against humanity:

Lloyd Blankfein

The man who willfully steered America’s most influential investment bank, Goldman Sachs, into the Financial Crisis of 2008, Blankfein oversaw the intentional mass-selling of garbage assets to Goldman clients, bankrupting millions of Americans along the way. He is still CEO.

Robert Rubin

The Clinton era architect of deregulation and derivatives, Rubin was the primary force behind the repeal of the Depression era Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, which separated investment and retail banks. Repealing this Act flipped a switch that triggered the 2008 Financial Meltdown.

Lawrence Summers

Removed from his presidential position at Harvard on allegations of racism and sexism, this charmer has been the steadiest player in deregulation since the 1990s. After cashing in on the Crash, Obama named him the 8th Director of the National Economic Council, where he advocated corporate tax-cuts as the solution to America’s financial problems and secured fat bailout cash for the banks and investment funds that employ him.

Notify Adbusters Headquarters and send documentary evidence of the arrest to editor@adbusters.org for payment of the reward in full.

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