Digital radio remains in rude health and now represents half of all radio listening with a narrow 50.2% share, according to the latest Rajar results for the second quarter of 2018.

As Rajar releases its second quarter results for the radio market, Newsline presents the key findings showing station and network reach, share and average listening hours .

Bosses from Mindshare, MediaCom, Kinetic, Local Planet and Merkle explain the significance of the latest findings.

Citing a “challenging outlook” the publisher wrote down the value of its 200-plus regional titles by £150m.

Mark Howley assumes the newly created role of chief operating officer, Publicis Media UK, while Natalie Cummins takes on the top job at Zenith UK.

Love Island and the World Cup helped secure a 22.9% surge in revenues for ITV in June. Total revenues reached almost £117m last month – a boost of £21.7m on the previous year.

Alibaba, Tencent and China Media Capital Holdings are reportedly in talks to buy a stake in the Chinese operations of WPP.

Only one title in the entire newspaper market was able to boost its circulation figures in June.

Zenith’s Sam Bueno De Mesquita shares a unique analysis of the Twitter bot purge and what this means for brands – particularly those who work closely with influencers.

Thanks to “relentless” upward revisions in the internet category, UK marketing budgets have witnessed an overall growth rate. Here, experts share their views on the findings.