A look back at the biggest themes that have emerged in UK media during what has at times been a predictably chaotic Q1.

YouTube 5K (referred to by WPP’s media buying arm as YT5K) aims to make channel curation and creative versioning for YouTube more efficient.

Ozone Labs will operate as a “sandbox” alongside Ozone’s core business, serving as an area for its partners to experiment, build product prototypes, and try new business models.

The streaming giant unveilved new ad formats and tools in Ads Manager as it walks a tightrope between promoting and denigrating AI’s impact on audio consumption.

The creative studio, led by Nico Sarti, is pushing a consultative strategy with brands amid a push for revenue.

UM’s global brand president discusses the media agency’s media planning proposition, the value of agency brands, and how she has navigated her team through the transition from Interpublic Group to Omnicom Group.

Meta and Google have been found liable for a woman’s harmful social media addiction. Is an additional harm the business logic that values the attention advertisers want to monetise?

The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a new consultation on applying the Nutrient Profiling Model (NPM) to advertising for less-healthy food and drink products.

At Advertising Week Europe in London Wednesday, Meta’s head of creative strategy for the Nordics, Rich Kivell, warned that brands are treating WhatsApp as a “utility pipe” rather than “a canvas for expression”.

Social media platforms are “primary pathway[s]” for organisers of human trafficking efforts to recruit victims in support of a wide-ranging online scam industry centred in South-East Asia. Facebook in particular was “the most widely used platform” for trafficking recruitment, with moderation efforts described by victims as insufficient.