Mediatel’s Steven Scaffardi speaks with key figures from the broadcast media world to discuss how they have dealt with the coronavirus crisis – and what comes next for commercial TV.

Virgin Media and Publicis Media Exchange give their views in this discussion chaired by Cadi Jones, commercial director at Beeswax.

Merkle, the performance marketing agency, has announced the promotion of Craig Dempster to global CEO, taking over from David Williams who has held the role for 32 years.

In this free-to-view webcast, bosses from ITV, Roku, Channel 4, Pubmatic and Discovery explore supply-side programmatic opportunities and challenges within OTT & CTV with a focus on industry impact from Covid-19.

Mediatel is delighted to announce the themes, first round of speakers and upcoming sessions for next week’s live stream of Future of TV Advertising UK.

Boosted by the COVID-19 pandemic and global lockdown, Netflix has added 15.77 million new paid subscribers to its streaming service in the last three months, more than double the number of new subscribers it had previously forecast.

The industry body for digital advertising, IAB UK, has named Tina Lakhani as its first head of ad tech to further support the ad tech sector.

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.