From AI and copyright to the future of news, the team chose their favourite episodes of The Media Leader Podcast of the year so far in honour of International Podcast Day.
Alan Rusbridger’s take on the future of news
Alan Rusbridger, outgoing editor of Prospect and previous editor of The Guardian, broke down his career, the future of Prospect and the sustainability of the news business model.
He also discussed the difference between US and UK press standards, whether social media actually provides a net benefit to publishers and what journalism looks like in the new AI world.
Alan Rusbridger on the future of news and Prospect’s growth
Lantern brings outcome measurement to TV
Sameer Modha, measurement innovation lead for commercial at ITV, and Matt Hill, director of insight and measurement at Sky Media, dived deeper into Lantern, a new measurement panel aimed at tracking the short-term impact of TV advertising on sales.
Modha and Hill underlined more details about the project — its purpose, goals and timeline — as well as how TV measurement efforts need to adapt more broadly to address the needs of advertisers.
How Lantern will bring outcome measurement to TV — with Sameer Modha and Matt Hill
The AI/publisher copyright fight
In a year when Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode gained consumer traction, Professional Publishers Association CEO Sajeeda Merali talked about the vital need to protect creative industries’ intellectual property from AI companies.
Merali explained the arguments being made by AI companies and by publishers over copyright, as well as the government’s considerations as it weighs the desire to drive technological and economic growth in the UK while also protecting its outsized creative industries from harm.
Who will win the AI/publisher copyright fight? With PPA’s Sajeeda Merali
Why OOH is in rude health
JCDecaux UK co-CEOs Chris Collins and Dallas Wiles pondered what is driving such strong growth in OOH investment and why JCDecaux is making 2025 its largest-ever year for screen deployment across the UK.
The pair also talked about making OOH “as simple as possible” for advertisers to buy, innovations in measurement and whether the retail media opportunity for OOH is overhyped.
Why OOH is in rude health — with JCDecaux’s Chris Collins and Dallas Wiles
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