In a year, a ‘majority’ of independent publishers could go out of business due to the rise of AI search. But publishers have developed multi-layered approaches to adapting while also taking on Big Tech.

Meta’s Derya Matras discusses her reaction to social media bans for under-16s and answers questions relating to harmful platform design, ad fraud, automating media and creative work, and the future of smart glasses.

Trust was a major topic along the Croisette this year, but more conversation is needed about whether chasing attention at any cost is harming the industry’s relationship with the public. 

The 20th anniversary release of TouchPoints finds a paradox: Users are concerned with misinformation on social media, but choose to engage with it for hours a day anyway.

Why is YouTube likely to be included in any UK social media ban for under-16s? The MD of Ziggurat XYZ looks at the evidence.

As brands grapple with declining trust, Havas Play’s chief client officer talks about the rise of experiential, the importance of authenticity and why events are increasingly becoming the engine of integrated campaigns.

Creators are now driving the news agenda, putting news brands in the awkward position of embracing a new medium for journalism without a sustainable funding model.

At WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress in Marseille, AG Sulzberger delivers a stark warning on AI

At our Future of Brands conference last month, the UN’s Charlotte Scaddan and CAN co-founder Harriet Kingaby unpacked a recent issue brief that warned the integrity of the global information ecosystem is at a “crisis point”.

Katharine Viner delivered a pointed speech last week praising the importance of independent journalism as tech platforms have ‘downgraded truth’. But publishers have been urged to act more like creators on those platforms.