Analysis: While a ‘dream team’ merger of UK news brands is off the table, there is every indication that Lord Rothermere will remain on the acquisition hunt for high-profile content businesses. 

The broadcaster’s chief revenue officer will leave at the end of the year, having decided to look for another opportunity.

Everyone accepts that ultra-processed food — otherwise known as junk food — is bad for us. As audiences or advertisers, are we prepared to accept that ultra-processed media is bad for us, too, asks the editor.

Andrew Cole, board member of Liberty Global and one of the original backers of GB News, talks to Omar Oakes about shaking up the status quo of TV measurement and trading.

The consultant collective launched by Rachel Forde and Marco Bertozzi has surpassed £1m in revenue in its first year, its founders have said.

Advertisers have been reluctant to be involved in newsbrands online election coverage, The Guardian has warned, despite the news brand clocking up its biggest day of election news traffic this week.

The world’s biggest advertising festival did itself proud this year by widening access to content creators. Media owners, researchers and agencies must play their part, too, as this industry changes.

The CEO of Ad Alliance is “pissed off” by the slowness of joint industry currencies to innovate in his home market as advertisers and their agencies put pressure on them to deliver new metrics for cross-media measurement.

WPP CEO Mark Read has scored a big interview at Cannes — Elon Musk. Given that Musk ‘hates’ advertising and has been a terrible owner of Twitter, Read owes it to this industry to ask him tough questions.

Under anonymity, a roundtable of advertising and media executives discuss who’s to blame for made-for-advertising sites and what can be done, if anything, to minimise them.