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Showtime is marking the second season of the TV series The Borgias in the US with a design event featuring retail window installations in 10 cities, among them New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. An leading designer in each city will bring to life one of 10 themes from the show using exclusive pieces from VandM.com, the website for vintage furniture, art, jewellery, fashion and design.

If you want to know how things work over at Channel 4, throw away that organigram and turn instead to illustrator Jack Hudson who was commissioned by the UK broadcaster to come up with two posters to show how the company functions.

Nine out of 10 people view social networking sites as a new form of entertainment, and more than half say social media sites are important tastemakers in determining what to watch and buy, according to a survey of 750 social network users aged 13 to 49 carried out by The Hollywood Reporter and Penn Schoen Berland, writes Mark Terry.

Almost all young Swedes use the Internet. Most of them do so daily, and the older they are, the more they use it. But this doesn’t mean they have stopped using traditional media, says Professor Olle Findahl, who has conducted a study on youth media habits for Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg.

Mad Men is back. And if you can’t watch it in the UK because you don’t have a Sky subscription, well, you can just play the Mad Men advergame instead. Players get to be Don Draper, of course, and need to complete tasks to save the agency. The video game has three separate endings, depending how play proceeds.

Kohl’s Department Stores has joined forces with FremantleMedia Enterprises, 19 Entertainment and Bravado to launch an American Idol fashion collection, Authentic Icon, writes Maria Stadtmueller. The line will be available spring collection will be available in Kohl’s stores until June to coincide with American Idol’s 11th season.

Ford is planning to recreate the classic Steve McQueen-Ford Mustang car chase from the film Bullitt in the finale of the Fox TV show Alcatraz, reports Fast Magazine. The last-reel San Francisco homage is yet another brand integration on the part of Ford which has been involved in producing branded content for the programme throughout.

Asian nations – excluding Japan – surpass Europe and western markets when it comes to television viewing and video consumption via the Internet or mobiles. And in southeast Asia, accessing the Net while watching TV is the most common media multitasking activity, according to Nielsen’s the Asian Media Landscape Is Turning Digital report.