The Media Leader’s daily round-up of news for Thursday 27 November 2025.
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Hannah Blake and Nick Moar, leaders of the Daily Mail’s new social publishers, discuss their editorial and commercial visions for DMG Newmedia and Creator Media, and how social can be harnessed to build publishing brands in a new era.
Revenue grew in the double-figures for the likes of Big Tech companies Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon, as well as smaller social media competitors Snap, Pinterest and Reddit.
Meta connection planning director Pete Buckley reassured big-brand media planners that its AI tools, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touted as being able to replace much of what they do, work best in tandem with humans.
The Bauer Media Advertising MD asked advertisers to take social media’s impact on mental health seriously by putting their wallets where their heart is.
Consumers are now using WhatsApp to communicate with brands and to purchase products. Meta promotes the channel as an opportunity for brands to meet customers where they are.
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.
Why are marketers pressing pause on more interactive platforms when consumers are playing forward? Snap’s senior commercial director believes ‘comfort’ is slowing marketers down.
In response to Mike Follett’s comments at Future of Media Manchester, one planner advises interrogating the platforms and tweaking how you utilise them; don’t blindly de-invest because of the attention metrics.
Marketers are pouring fresh investment into influencers and creators. That momentum will only translate into brand growth if we move from command and control to guardrails and trust, and measure both the quick win and the long haul, writes Kantar.