At a Labour Party conference panel, publishers, lawmakers, and policy researchers agreed that Government must do more to regulate AI, lest it risk the state of global democracy.

Nick Manning spoke with Jack Benjamin and Omar Oakes about why publishers feel the need to polarise themselves to appeal to readers on the fringes — who just so happen to be the one’s most likely to pay a subscription fee.

September’s box office was 13% higher than last year’s, as cinemas return to post-Barbenheimer audience growth.

The latest WFA and MediaSense report which found that while traditional holding groups still “have their role to play,” a “new breed of agile, specialist, tech-focussed agencies can also add measurable value to a more centralised media model.”

The latest Kantar Sustainability Sector Index report underlines the lack of trust consumers have in companies’ sustainability efforts for most products across all industries.

Industry-backed online ads sales house Ozone has launched Studiozone, a new in-house creative studio it says can help maximise ad impacts for brands across the premium web.

Meta is pitching its latest set of smart glasses as a key potential tool for creators to capture and livestream their daily lives. But smart glasses have been a tough market to crack, and privacy concerns are abound.

On a previous episode of The Media Leader Podcast, Radiocentre CEO Matt Payton discussed how audio listening habits have changed rapidly in recent years to the benefit of commercial radio.

Brainlabs’ global CEO Daniel Gilbert reveals how he looks to utilise the company’s recent private equity investment, and speaks to how executive chairman Stephen Allan has helped transform the company into a worthy holdco competitor.

Scope3’s Anne Coghlan and The Responsible Marketing Agency’s Hannah Mirza criticised Havas for winning the Shell account and discussed the ethics of working to advertise for clients that are contributing to the climate crisis.