Commercial radio extended its share of total listening to record highs, with Global leading the way. Digital listening continues to drive growth.

Global’s Heart Breakfast show saw a marginal 0.2% year on year growth despite a quarter-on quarter decline of 3.1%.

Commercial listening now accounts for 56% of total listening, compared to the BBC’s 41.7%.

Online listening now has a 29.7% share, compared to just 26.2% for AM/FM.

The platform brings together first-party data, analytics, and AI-driven creative optimisation tools which offer real-time performance insights across OOH, audio and video.

While global media inflation has steadied, it is not budging. Media planners who understand market and channel differences are in the best place to make effective spending decisions.

With the industry-wide voluntary adoption of the LHF advertising restrictions now in play, The Media Leader is exploring how different channels are adapting. Next, is cinema.

Five brands have been shortlisted to win £1m of commercial airtime through the Diversity in Advertising Award.

A new report from WFA and Mediasense highlights media’s lead role in the marketing evolution, but shifts across talent, structure and partnerships are needed.

giffgaff, MG OMD and Ecologi’s “Up to Good Fund” is reshaping media campaigns by embedding nature recovery into their core, illustrating how sustainability and performance can go hand in hand.