On Thursday, MediaTel launches a new event in the media calendar. The Video Upfronts Marketplace will pull together content, technology and business in one room. The final agenda is confirmed and the event promises to be hugely insightful…

BBC correspondent Torin Douglas has taken voluntary redundancy from his role as the BBC’s Media Correspondent; he will be leaving at the end of May.

Ian Priest, founding partner of VCCP and international managing director of Chime, delivered his inaugural address as president of the IPA yesterday, pledging to move the advertising industry towards a new era of “commercial creativity” as he sets up a new client council to help drive change.

MediaTel is launching a brand new event at the end of this month, covering the rapidly growing online video market, which was valued at £70 million last year.

As part of Ad Week Europe, MediaTel played host to the sixth annual Media Playground. In our online video, hear from some of our panellists and delegates as they share their personal highlights.

MediaTel’s Youth, Media & Technology event, in association with Channel 4, returns for a third year this Thursday, April 4th.

The Daily Telegraph is set to launch a metered paywall for its website following a successful trial of the system.

The three main political parties reached a ‘historic’ agreement yesterday on a new regulatory regime for the press, however the newspaper industry is today being described as “shell shocked”. Here, Newsline has captured the reaction from both the press and major publishing groups.

The world’s biggest advertising festival, Advertising Week Europe, kicked off today with over 2,000 delegates registering for talks from some of the most prominent thought leaders defining the future of advertising.

Unilever, Kimberly Clark, Centrica, Camelot and Hiscox Insurance just some of the top names at Media Playground this year.