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

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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.

We need advertising to continue to play a huge role in how we pay for media, but how that happens needs to change, writes the editor.

ITV charts a course for diversity – but can director of television Kevin Lygo resist the urge to step on the message, asks Stephen Arnell.

This week’s news digest was dominated by events in Ukraine and Russia, while TikTok and Spotify announced big sponsorship news and Nielsen’s acquisition was finalised.

While the international iteration is said to be keeping its head above water, the tea leaves don’t look good for the UK version.