Outgoing and incoming Isba directors general Phil Smith and Simon Michaelides speak about the next stages of Origin, loss of trust between agencies and clients, challenges facing CMOs, and whether there should be an Isba for small businesses.
19 Jan 2026 | Jack Benjamin
Podcast: The co-founders and chairs of the Alliance of Media Independents discuss their plans for expansion and why indies might be the beneficiaries of a consolidating agency landscape.
12 Jan 2026 | Jack Benjamin
15 Dec 2025 | Jack Benjamin
The former IPA president speaks to Jack Benjamin about his new role at PMG, the agency’s growth strategy, whether his People First IPA agenda had an impact, and the future of the agency model.
Mediasense’s chief strategy officer returns to the podcast to unpack its recent ‘Future of Media Organisations’ study and discuss why media integration – rather than scale – is the key to success moving forward.
At The Future of Media London event, host Jack Benjamin sat down with Publicis Media Connected UK CEO Niel Bornman to chat about Publicis’ post-pandemic growth, performance media, principal media, and the future of the agency model.
Roku’s content distribution director speaks with host Jack Benjamin about its recent developments in FAST and SVOD, what makes the UK TV market unique, and how it works with its content partners to improve discoverability.
IPG Mediabrands’ UK and EMEA head of research and insight joins host Jack Benjamin to discuss how consumer research is changing, both in terms of how it’s practiced and what is demanded of it.
The Molly Rose Foundation CEO and Conscious Advertising Network co-chair join host Jack Benjamin to unpack several research studies about social platforms’ lack of effective child-safety tools.
The Media Leader’s content director James Longhurst hosted a panel on the challenges clients and agencies face throughout the year as they seek to meet and exceed boardroom expectations.
To celebrate International Podcast Day, The Media Leader team picked their episodes from our podcast. Now’s your chance to catch up if you missed any of these.
New research shows that investing in high-attention media channels is more profitable than investing in low-attention ones. But in the past decade, adspend is going the other way. The report’s authors unpack why and what can be done to improve media effectiveness.