The Covid-19 lockdown has seen marketing budgets suffer their worst reduction since the global financial crisis in 2009, according to the latest IPA Bellwether. Here, industry bosses react to the news.

Since the start of the COVID-19 national lockdown, 38% of commercial radio listeners have been tuning in for an extra hour and 45 minutes each day, according to new research from Radiocentre.

Measurement body ABC has released its final pre-lockdown figures for newsbrand circulations, covering a reduced reporting period of three weeks (March 2-22) as part of “temporary amends” during the COVID-19 crisis.

PHD UK has hired Louise Twycross-Lewis as head of insight within Discovery, the agency’s specialist data, insight and marketing science team.

Key figures from the audio world to discuss how they have dealt with the crisis – and what they think is next for radio, streaming, podcasts and voice technology

To celebrate The Future of Audio, we asked experts to nominate their favourite audio ads (which of course, they had nothing to do with…)

As the pandemic takes its toll, Mediatel assembled agency bosses to discuss its immediate and long-term effects on the advertising and media markets.

Four out of five marketers from major global brands say they are deferring planned campaigns as a result of the Coronavirus crisis, according to new research conducted last week by the World Federation of Advertisers.

As the global COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, it appears more people are turning to podcasts for news and scientific information as much as a distraction.

As Mediatel’s Future of Audio fortnight kicks off, recently published figures released by commercial radio marketing body Radiocentre have shown that the COVID-19 crisis is driving double-digit increases in online listening.