Highlights from the 2015 Year Ahead event – including video interviews with panellists, photos and the choices for media personality, top media brand and best media moment of 2014.

Ad tech company MediaMath has announced the appointment of Richard Beattie as senior vice president commercial, EMEA.

Back from Las Vegas, Mindshare’s Jeremy Pounder and TubeMogul’s Jay Prasad share their key take-outs from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.

Unsurprisingly, the festive period took its toll on national newspaper circulations in December, with few titles across the three markets reporting any gains.

In total, the top 10 ads earned a combined 330 million views globally – check out the full video chart.

Deloitte forecasts SVOD will generate about £5 billion globally this year, amounting to only 3% of the £168 billion pay-TV market.

BBC iPlayer leads the pack with more than 30m downloads, followed by BBC News with 15m downloads and BBC Weather with 9.5m.

November was a fairly poor month for commercial television channels, with just ITV 1 seeing an increase in revenue.

From the best films to the rise (and rise) of programmatic – and much in between – hear from Xaxis, Mindshare, dunnhumby, Newscred, DCM, Primesight and Carat as they offer their predictions for the year ahead.

After a day of judging this week, the final shortlist for the 2015 MediaTel Media Research Awards has today been announced.