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EssenceMediacom and Tesco take top gongs at Newsworks Awards 2025

EssenceMediacom and Tesco take top gongs at Newsworks Awards 2025

03 Dec 2025 | Partner Content

EssenceMediacom and Tesco take home the double for advertiser of the year and the grand prix award from the Newsworks Awards 2025

The relative advantage of ‘unsafe’ news content
The relative advantage of ‘unsafe’ news content
01 Dec 2025 | Jessica Treasure
Observer launches digital subscription service with new website and app
Observer launches digital subscription service with new website and app
27 Nov 2025 | Jack Benjamin
Lisa Nandy, are you sure you’ve thought this through?
Lisa Nandy, are you sure you’ve thought this through?
26 Nov 2025 | Raymond Snoddy
‘A newspaper behemoth’: Could DMGT’s purchase of The Telegraph get past regulators?
‘A newspaper behemoth’: Could DMGT’s purchase of The Telegraph get past regulators?
24 Nov 2025 | Jack Benjamin
‘Social as a destination itself’: Inside Mail Metro Media’s two new social publishers
‘Social as a destination itself’: Inside Mail Metro Media’s two new social publishers
19 Nov 2025 | Jack Benjamin

‘We are a destination’: NYT’s global ads chief talks the Gray Lady’s international ambitions

14 Nov 2025 | Jack Benjamin

Tom Armstrong speaks to The Media Leader about how The New York Times is adapting its output to become a daily habit for consumers — be it through news, games or personalised sports coverage — and what that means for its growing advertising model.

The key to effective supermarket advertising? Balancing shiny toys with nailing the basics

06 Nov 2025 | Rachel Eyre

Settling into her new role as Asda chief customer officer, Rachel Eyre sets out her priorities for how supermarkets can pack a marketing punch.

So what is your f-cking job, media planners?

04 Nov 2025 | Mike Follett

Lumen’s Mike Follett responds to feedback on his provocative comment that planners “do your fucking jobs”, lest they risk replacement by AI tools.

Sky, BBC and ITN call on Starmer to ‘stamp out’ Big Tech’s ‘anticompetitive behaviour’

03 Nov 2025 | Jack Benjamin

As part of the News Media Association’s Journalism Matters week, leaders at the broadcasters wrote to Starmer asking that AI products be regulated to ensure mis- and disinformation does not drown out legitimate news.

LHF restrictions: How publishing is adapting

29 Oct 2025 | Ellie Hammonds

With the industry-wide voluntary adoption of the LHF advertising restrictions now in play, The Media Leader is exploring how different channels are adapting. Next, is publishing.

Stagwell CEO: There is a ‘perverse distortion’ in the news media ad market

20 Oct 2025 | Jack Benjamin

On Thursday, Stagwell hosted an inaugural “NewsFronts” upfront event in New York aimed at promoting news brands to advertisers. It also announced its own investment in news publishing.

Reach CEO: ‘We’re a pyramid without its top’

17 Oct 2025 | Jack Benjamin

Piers North discusses why the UK’s largest news publisher is embracing subscriptions as part of a wider drive to improve what has consistently been modest digital revenues growth.

CMOs on what makes publisher partnerships work: ‘Great partners push back’

14 Oct 2025 | Jack Benjamin

As publishers seek more direct revenue, CMOs shared what drives success in brand partnerships in a new report from World Media Group.

A battle plan for publishers in the war against AI search

13 Oct 2025 | Kamran Vahabi

How publishers can insulate themselves against AI search by leveraging content in new, more powerful ways.

Into-It relaunches Chrome extension to ‘bring music industry budgets to publishers’

10 Oct 2025 | Jack Benjamin

The UK-based startup seeks to replace banner ads with notifications about musical artists, giving users greater choice and relevance over what they see. After a modest start this year, the new extension and a subsequent marketing campaign will look to accelerate user uptake.

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