National radio brands across the board saw declines in weekly reach, but green shoots of growth could be found in Bauer’s KISS and Global’s LBC.

Netflix expands ad inventory into video podcasts and vertical video. EMEA ads VP Damien Bernet sits down with The Media Leader to discuss the streaming giant’s plans.

A majority of the UK’s largest national radio brands registered year-on-year contractions, including Global’s Heart, Capital and Smooth, as well as Bauer’s Hits Radio portfolio (-8.3% to 12.1m) and Greatest Hits Network (9.7% to 6.8m).

In episode five of the mini-series, Omar Oakes and Hamish Nicklin debate for and against the prompt: “AI sycophancy will run wild, and it will be bad for business.”

WPP’s David Wilding explores whether, if Bowie had come of age in the mid-2020s rather than the mid-1960s, we would have lost his genius to his feed and the algorithm.