Our Future Media Leader of the Year and Just Eat Takeaway’s senior media manager for northern and southern Europe answers our probing and quick-fire Leading Questions.
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To kick off our new series, JCDecaux’s Grand Prix award-winning leadership team of Chris Collins and Dallas Wiles answer our probing and quick-fire, Leading Questions.
Welcome to The Media Leader’s live coverage of LEAD 2026, taking place today at the QEII Centre in Westminster. The Advertising Association’s centenary summit, hosted with ISBA and the IPA, brings together over 450 senior leaders from across the political, media and advertising landscape under the theme “Leadership Through Trust”.
Welcome to the Brief, The Media Leader’s round-up of media news.
As we kick off 2026, we asked members of The Media Leader’s Future 100 Club to share their aspirations for the year ahead. From sustainability and trust to talent and collaboration, here’s what the industry’s rising stars are hoping for in 2026.
We asked Future 100 Club members to tell us who inspired them most in 2025. From industry leaders championing responsible media to colleagues who handled difficult times with grace, here are their media heroes.
From industry launches to cultural phenomena, we asked Future 100 Club members to share the media moments that defined their year. Here’s what caught their attention in 2025.
From hard-hitting investigations of social media safety to thought-provoking op-eds on sustainability and the industry’s flagship events, The Media Leader’s coverage in 2025 sparked important conversations across the industry.