ITV recorded a total of 3.4 million viewers watched the Love Island final across ITV2 and ITV Hub last night, making it the biggest finale since 2019, and an increase of 100,000 viewers year-on-year.

In brief: ITV has announced that reality TV show Big Brother will return to screens on ITV2 and ITVX in 2023.

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CEO Carolyn McCall confirms that streaming service ITVX will launch in November.

Thinkbox’s Matt Hill examines the world of CTV and explores why the UK is a hard market to crack.

This is a daily digest of news stories from around the media world, updated by The Media Leader team, to ensure you’re 100% up-to-date.

Underlying wider industry causes partly explain the exits of Raffaele Annechino and Peter Rice, as the inflation crisis takes hold.

Caution advised as ITV and others enter ‘Web3’, the metaverse and the NFT market.

Rather than let itself get dragged into the freemium space, Netflix should take a bold and pioneering approach to advertising, writes the editor.

ITV, Channel 4 and Sky plan to collaborate much more to “take the fight to digital”, a TV industry conference has heard.