Year-to-date box office has now reached £902.8m, running 23% of 2025 and 33% ahead of 2024. It is the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic that the UK and Ireland box office has also moved ahead of 2019’s pace.

A new analysis of over £100m in UK TV investment conducted by Isba and Ebiquity found that expanding the definition of TV to include SVOD, CTV and YouTube produces the same headline finding as 2024’s Profit Ability 2.

The agency group has restructured its Village model to align media, creative, branding, PR, design, customer experience and business transformation efforts under centralised leadership.

OpenAI’s ads business is growing at pace. Is it merely ‘plucking low-hanging fruit’, or can it eat search’s $200bn lunch?

The IPA’s joint directors of media research and judges of this year’s AMRAs discuss why media research is not always put into practice and how JICs need to evolve to meet advertiser demands.

The new platform, launched globally, includes a redesigned interface, an upgraded forecasting engine, and an integration of agentic AI features aimed at “remov[ing] friction”.

As part of a settlement in a US lawsuit, Meta has agreed to pay over $17bn in penalties and to make substantial changes to how its platforms operate to reduce teen harms. It is calling on TikTok and YouTube to do the same.

Under a 2034 switch-off date, the cumulative loss of advertising revenues to public-service media would total £3.5bn from 2028 to 2036, with downstream impacts on audiences, commissioning, and the UK’s production sector.

Lawyers for WPP said they would ‘address the deficienies’ in Foster’s amended complaint in a forthcoming filing, but asked that the ‘salacious’ and ‘muckracking’ evidence submitted by Foster be sealed for good cause.

The podcast company has hired a former talent agent as its new head of IP development, tasked with turning existing and in-development shows into big screen propositions.