ZenithOptimedia forecasts global adspend will grow 4.4% to reach $544bn in 2015 – and will accelerate to 5.3% growth in 2016, boosted by next year’s Summer Olympics in Rio and the US Presidential elections.

Sound Digital, a consortium of Arqiva, Bauer and UTV Media GB, is awarded the licence to run 15 new DAB stations.

Winners of the third annual Connected Consumer Awards will be announced today (23 April) – with live tweets from around 3pm.

#AWEurope: Douglas McCabe says media newsbrands might be fighting back against the likes of BuzzFeed and Vice, but they won’t win in the long-run.

Havas’s digital trading director tells industry he wants to buy all linear TV programmatically – and asks which broadcaster will be bravest to go first.

A thoroughly entertaining panel staged by Mail Newspapers at Ad Week on Monday gave a full house some interesting insights – with no data or programmatic stuff for a change.

Barbara Agus has been appointed global programmatic and yield director – ensuring the company has the right products to take to market, with a particular focus on video and mobile app inventory.

February was a good month for nearly all broadcasters, with only Channel 5 seeing revenue totals fall compared to 2014.The youngest of the main free to air commercial stations had a revenue fall of 12.1% year on year, to stand at just over £20m.ITV1 network had a double digit increase in revenues for the monthly,… Continue reading TV market round-up: February 2015

Under the terms of the extended deal, Channel 5 will continue to broadcast two series of Celebrity Big Brother and one series of Big Brother each year, as well as associated programming.

Aviva Premiership Rugby will be broadcast on BT Sport for the next six seasons in a new TV deal, it has been announced.