The pandemic is well and truly over when it comes to impacting the UK’s media habits, as both broadcast TV viewing and streaming subscriptions have reversed after the Covid lockdown boom of 2020 and 2021.

“This is the worst advertising recession we’ve seen since the global financial crisis [in 2008],” ITV CEO Carolyn McCall has warned after the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster suffered a double-digit drop in ad revenue.

Saturation and economic factors are limiting investment and increase competition. TV buyers must consider additional audience research and varied channel mixes, writes VCCP Media’s AV director.

The Future of Media, The Media Leader’s flagship conference with Adwanted Events, will host multiple insightful sessions based on seven distinct themes happening across three stages over two days.

Global first in-house ad campaign for its hit music radio station Capital will run on TV, cinema, outdoor and social media.

Brands should use cinema activations at the beginning of campaigns as a “primer” for other media, delegates heard today. 

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Mediatel Connected’s head of research Anne Tucker takes a look at the broadcaster VOD market in the UK and the impact the recent rebrands have had on ITV and Channel 4.

In brief: Love Island returns to ITV today and among the latest product-placement deals secured are coffee brand Emmi Caffé Latte, which is taking its investment in the show “to a new level”.

A reimagining of PSB “due prominence” for the digital and streaming era is needed. But is it too little, too late as part of the Draft Media Bill?