Bob Wootton investigates the rumour that one part of a holding group has told media owners to trade their way – or don’t trade with them at all.

Following the decision to leave the EU, forward visibility of ad spending remains sketchy – but it’s certainly not the end of the world, argues Bob Wootton. Plus: AI turns media planning and buying on its head.

Last week agencies and advertisers were warned their investment choices were creating a diminished media landscape in the UK. Here, Bob Wootton asks what it will take to avert disaster.

Antipathy towards holding companies and their group trading operations is growing, writes Bob Wootton

It’s time advertisers, agencies and media owners locked horns under the neutral canopy of the Advertising Association to talk about a cleaner way for the industry to run, writes Bob Wootton

A probe by a US marketing trade group is set to reveal that US ad agencies are accepting rebates from media companies. As adland nervously waits, Bob Wootton looks at some likely consequences.

Rebates, a coup, grumpy publishers, vibrating shoes and an unholy mess: Bob Wootton digests a busy month in media

Too much of what happens in the digital world defies gravity, writes Bob Wootton – it’s time we scrutinised it much more closely.

Will the WPP boss’s success percolate through the organisation to the thousands who prop it all up, wonders Bob Wootton. Plus: Exterion’s tube win, ad effectiveness and clumsiness at Channel 4

What use are ‘corporate social responsibility’ claims when the likes of Google and Facebook play it so fast and loose with tax, asks Bob Wootton.