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Specialist media consultancies like PwC’s should be in high demand. And yet the market for them could have a quickly approaching expiry date, writes the editor-in-chief.

“People primarily like to watch television about their own communities,” David Abraham told The Media Leader when pressed about whether Channel 4’s remit needs to change to compete with streaming giants.

Analysis: First Accenture, now PwC joins consultancy exit from UK media.

Salesforce’s media lead, Neil Robinson, laid bare key challenges to the industry in a recent webinar hosted by The Media Leader that discussed how advertisers and media owners risk “leaving money on the table”.

Lack of sporting competition creates the deadliest form of cancer for live TV: it’s become boring, writes the editor-in-chief.

US trade body The Association of National Advertisers has called on brand marketers to tighten up media agency contracts and introduce auditing of so-called principal media sales to prevent conflicts of interest.

We’re stuck in a cycle of performative media — where we breathlessly perform for algorithms. It’s unsustainable, writes the editor-in-chief.

Advertisers, agencies and media owners are collectively “leaving money on the table” due to existing industry structures, a special webinar by The Media Leader and Salesforce heard this week.

IPG media agency has appointed Steve Taylor, following Nnamdi David’s departure to the company’s sister office in Los Angeles.