In brief: Meta has made similar threats in Australia and Canada over similar legislation seeking to combat social media companies’ dominance over digital news.

In brief: Year-to-date, OOH revenue is up 25.7%, which the OAAA described as comparable to the historical YTD high set in 2019.

Websites funded by partisan groups posing as local news outlets are growing as local US newspapers continue to disappear or downsize.

The downgrade is driven primarily by slowdowns in growth in China (due to ongoing lockdowns) and the US.

In brief: the UK box office surpassed £878m for the year through November, ;ed by a fairly strong UK showing from ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’.

Magna has downgraded its 2023 ad industry growth forecast by 1.5 points, but described impressive performance by traditional media companies in 2022.

In brief: Head of US digital journalism at the BBC, Saeed Ahmed, announced their intended expansion on social media.

In brief: the layoffs affected “hundreds” of staff members, but reportedly remained in the “single-digits” as a percentage of CNN’s total staff.

In brief: a group of British website publishers have filed a class action lawsuit against Google and its parent company Alphabet alleging anti-competitive practices.

In brief: ITV has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Paramount to air added content on its soon-to-launch streaming service ITVX.