Analysis: Together with the launch of a Trustmark, Barb appears to be reinforcing its status as a joint industry currency amid accusations that online platforms continue to ‘mark their own homework’.

The UK launch of free Fox-owned streaming service Tubi this summer has already made a dent in rival FAST offerings from Paramount and Amazon.

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.