Outvertising’s Cass Naylor joins host Ella Sagar and reporter Jack Benjamin to dissect BBC director-general Tim Davie’s big speech about the BBC’s commercial future and look ahead to how media and advertising will play its part in this year’s UK general election.

Havas’ CEO is the second-longest-serving leader of a major advertising network, but insists he will be at the helm until at least 2035.

The Media Leader columnist and Creativebrief editorial director Nicola Kemp joins Omar Oakes and Jack Benjamin for this candid discussion of the biggest stories in media and advertising this week.

In a special edition of The Media Leader Podcast, editor-in-chief Omar Oakes and reporter Jack Benjamin report live from last week’s Connected TV World Summit in London.

Fractional work can provide a much-needed re-evaluation point for people, especially as the role of the CMO can be so broad.

The AI company already has agreements with Axel Springer and AP.

The Media Leader is teaming up with 10 companies to launch the conference on 18 April.

The owner of Havas and Canal+ returned to profit last year.

Ed Couchman has an idea to pitch if he bumped into Spotify’s founder in the lift.

Global’s research project on first- and third-party data scooped the top prize in a ceremony in London.