Former Media Leader editor-in-chief Omar Oakes and former Dentsu International CEO, now AI strategist Hamish Nicklin debate for and against the prompt: “No human will touch a media plan within five years.”

As we post less to social media, one in three of us is instead using AI for emotional support or social interaction. However, AI isn’t the only companion media. WPP Media’s David Wilding analyses what’s going on.

The latest IPA Bellwether reported a net balance of 4.5% of firms upwardly revising their media budgets in Q1, driven by growth in online and video advertising.

Media leaders answer a trio of questions about what AI applications are actually proving value, what are mostly just hype, and how they might cause working practices to change.

When brand signals reinforce across memory, social media and machine systems, you stop buying visibility and start accumulating it. This changes how we think about brand strategy.

The MPG was born out of the Advertising: Who Cares? initiative and will sit alongside the non-profit Account Planning Group (APG).

A look back at the biggest themes that have emerged in UK media during what has at times been a predictably chaotic Q1.

YouTube 5K (referred to by WPP’s media buying arm as YT5K) aims to make channel curation and creative versioning for YouTube more efficient.

UM’s global brand president discusses the media agency’s media planning proposition, the value of agency brands, and how she has navigated her team through the transition from Interpublic Group to Omnicom Group.

Publicis Media led both of Comvergence’s total and net new business global rankings last year, generating $10bn in new client billings.