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.

Earlier this month MediaTel hosted the eighth Media Question Time event at Glaziers Hall, with some lively – and controversial – debate from the panelists, who covered a range of topics from the decline of print to Tesco TV.

The latest ABC newspaper figures show that the national daily market was down in February, -2.9% period on period, with only the ‘i’ experiencing any growth at all – up 1.4% on January and up 12.8% year on year.