In brief: ITV has added pet health and wellness company PitPat to its media-for-equity portfolio in its second investment of 2023.

“There is still plenty of SVOD growth left”, global TV trends analysts have suggested amid forecasts that global subscriptions will increase by 400 million by 2028.

In brief: WBD UK & Ire and Sky are expanding their ad sales partnership by adding kids’ channels Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Cartoonito to the Sky Media portfolio.  

The IPG Mediabrands agency is rolling out a bespoke algorithm that it claims enables advertisers to optimise media-buying for more audience attention and lower-carbon formats at the same time.

ITV’s CEO Carolyn McCall has urged the UK Government to urgently pass the proposed Media Bill as it is “fundamental” to its  future as a public-service broadcaster.

Serious media investment and thinking is going into AI for all sorts of use cases. The tech is not particularly new but, critically, our culture is, writes the editor.

Disney+ is forecast to reach more than $11bn in annual advertising revenue within five years — more than Netflix and YouTube combined.

In brief: NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell has left the company after admitting to an inappropriate relationship with a colleague, parent company Comcast said.

A decline in Netflix customer satisfaction has led to a surge in churn for the streaming giant amid a post-Christmas cull in the UK of video-on-demand services. 

The Media Plan: P&O Ferries is placing out-of-home posters at “pain points” for fed up aeroplane and train travellers to entice them overseas by ferries instead.