Commercial listening now accounts for 55.7% of total listening, compared to the BBC’s 42.1%. But total radio listening declined, including modest quarterly contractions for Global and Bauer.

The world-first initiative comes with caveats but aims to provide much-desired independent measurement of some of YouTube’s most-popular channels. Initial findings suggest top channels skew toward very young children and maintain middling audience figures on UK TV sets.

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

The figure is 1.4 percentage points ahead of previous forecast, driven predominately by search, social and online display. Cinema and digital audio also had a big Q1.

BBC Studios’ senior vice-president of digital joins Jack Benjamin to discuss how the commercial arm is modernising its go-to-market strategy by cultivating fan communities and launching an ecommerce play.

In part two of a series of special episodes, RX Global’s chief intelligence officer and Salesforce’s regional VP join Jack Benjamin to discuss how pragmatic approaches to AI can enhance business efforts.

Analysis: Netflix reported better-than-expected revenue growth in Q2, but a lack of transparency over its ad revenue and subscriber numbers give an unclear picture of business performance.

The move towards advertising is a “natural evolution” of Substack’s business model. It could provide brands access to highly intentional audiences, but questions over brand safety are sure to be raised.

Bauer Media, Immediate Media and Netmums are working with Utiq to give brands and agencies access to their addressable audiences.

Total marketing budgets rebounded after Q1’s downward revision, but a lack of growth in main media budgets suggests an embrace of short-termism, the latest IPA Bellwether shows.