Stuart Mays, Global’s longstanding director of commercial strategy, is leaving after 16 years to launch a new platform for music artists. 

The audience measurement company has hired the former Ebiquity insight chief as UK solutions director.

Beeftink is retiring after 18 years at the agency trade body.

Bauer Media will help combat “shockingly common” issues associated with social media, the company’s ad chief has pledged in a blistering attack on online tech.

If network agencies run their business like supermarkets, their double-digit margins are unsustainably high, writes the editor-in-chief.

Tech is radically changing media and advertising, but our first Future of Media Manchester event reminded us that what matters most to creativity and sales is the same now as it was 200 years ago, writes the editor-in-chief.

Media agencies in Manchester have lost an estimated £250m over the last three years to London-based rivals, regional leaders have warned.

Interview: Debbie Morrison is the driving force behind the advertiser/agency contracts on which today’s media industry still depends. Speaking to The Media Leader on the eve of her retirement, Morrison describes her unique career rooting out bad practice and building a more trustworthy industry. 

ITV is set to launch two TV ads which have been created using generative AI and wants to sell more of them to small businesses.

This sector has the talent and the tools to succeed. But whether it has the stomach to start challenging bad practice is key to arresting its decline, writes the editor.