Chief commercial officer of Channel 4, Rak Patel discussed the roll out of Channel 4’s, ITV’s and Sky’s joint ad marketplace.

At The Year Ahead event in London earlier this month, The Media Leader’s content director James Longhurst and senior reporter Jack Benjamin parsed through the key themes of 2025 and open questions for 2026, with input from industry leaders.

Founder of the7stars, Jenny Biggam gives a holistic overview of the agency landscape and how they need to evolve in 2026.

Steve King, ex-CEO of Publicis Media discussed what he believes incoming talent to the industry should be focusing on.

Analysis: The concept of podcast “shows” is continuing to accelerate with the UK’s largest independent podcast producer, Goalhanger reaching 250k subscribers and Netflix announcing its own exclusive video podcast.

A study developed by Podscribe and Oxford Road measures the relative strengths and weaknesses of “pure audio” vs YouTube “simulcast” podcasts finding the latter’s impressions are less valuable and can’t be deemed as fungible despite industry standard.

At the Year Ahead event for 2026, Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist spoke holistically about the political economy and its expected impacts on business in 2026.

Adwanted Events’ co-founder shares his thoughts on the raised challenges and outcomes from last month’s FTVA Global conference.

The Media Leader and the PPA Magnetic convened senior publishing leaders, agency planners and strategists at our London head office at a roundtable discussion to discuss how trusted editorial and human connections translate into outcomes.

Experts from Sky Media, WPP Media, OMD UK and more spoke to The Media Leader to discuss what strategies can be taken to make TV more future-facing.