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As Brand Republic takes a break for Christmas and the New Year, we leave you with a 10-part round-up of 2007 as told through some of the site's most-read stories, from Brand Republic, Campaign, Marketing and Media Week.
LONDON - Emap has agreed to sell its business-to-business division to Guardian Media Group and Apax for around £1.3bn, only days after stating the business was off the auction block.
LONDON - The best-read forums that received the most comments in Brand Republic during 2007 revolved around recurrent themes: reality TV, social networks and celebrities.
LONDON - BSkyB is to ask the secretary of state for business John Hutton to allow it to place its ITV stake in a special trust, after the Competition Commission recommended the satellite broadcaster be forced to reduce its holding to less than 7.5%.
LONDON - US regulators have cleared Google's $3.1bn (£1.56bn) acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick, which was being investigated amid concerns about privacy risks.
LONDON - Communications regulator Ofcom has fined Channel 4 £1.5m for misconduct involving phone-in competitions around hit shows Richard & Judy and Deal or No Deal.
LONDON – Online video group Brightcove has sealed an agreement with Ticketmaster and Citysearch owner IAC to create and distribute online video services.
The Media Trust, an organisation that unites the media industry with charities and is responsible for the Community Channel, has appointed Daren Forsyth as its new director of innovation and new media.
LONDON - Viacom has unveiled a deal that will allow Microsoft to sell display advertising across the media group's websites in the US, in a deal valued at approximately $500m (£252m) over five years.
LONDON - Mobile operator Orange has signed a content deal with sports broadcaster Setanta to stream live coverage of Barclays Premier League football matches via its mobile portal, Orange World.
