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Welcome to the Brief for Monday 8th December, The Media Leader’s round-up of media news.

Year-to-date, total box office gross has surpassed £965m, running 2% ahead of 2024 and 1% behind 2023. November box office for the UK and Ireland totaled £85m, a 33% decline from last November against a challenging comparable.

The transaction, valued at $82.7bn (including debt) is expected to close by Q3 2026, after Warner Bros Discovery carves out its linear TV businesses into a new company, Discovery Global.

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Audioboom acquired Adelicious in July, and as part of the deal, Craig Eastwood became the new VP international. The Media Leader sits down with him to see how it’s going.

JICRIT, the owner of J-ET’s managing director Robin Angell is stepping down next year after nearly two decades at the company, and Chontal Angus will be taking the reins.

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David Amodio and Jay Kassam will join the new-look senior commercial leadership team as head of sales, and head of business operations and revenue innovation, respectively, beginning in January.

If Meta can meet the IAB’s Gold Standard Certification whilst, as Reuters reported, the platform generated $16bn in ad revenue from scams and banned goods, then what is the role of the standard?

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