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What can we learn from the recent ad for Charlie’s Bar in Enniskillen about how ads can reflect the mood of a nation and tackle difficult subjects?

2023 looks set to the be the year of social media adspend, a global report by a major media buyer has suggested, in what has otherwise been a tough market.

The solution, which launched in the US market in May, allows brands “control and predictability” to place their ads directly after content shared by premium publishers shown in TikTok’s For You feed.

Twitter is too small to have such a big mouth calling the shots, writes the editor.

Jack Benjamin is joined by Ella Sagar and The Guardian’s James Fleetham to unpack takeaways from The Guardian’s upfronts and discuss how AI-generated misinformation could actually be a boost to trusted newsbrands.

Between a rise in anti-Semitism on TikTok and X and a pledge for more of the same from News Corp, brands should vote with their feet in pursuit of more positive contexts for their ads.

Peter Field explained to Omar Oakes that audiences cannot become deeply engaged in pieces of entertainment in 15 or 30 seconds, and likened short-form video to chewing gum.

Columnist Nick Manning joins reporter Ella Sagar and editor Omar Oakes.

TikTok is different to other social media platforms and marketers should lean in to it even if they do not enjoy it as much as their audience. 

This is the worst media employee ever. But he can’t be fired, warns the editor-in-chief.