A perception gap persists around progress in diversity, equity, and inclusion in the media industry, according to MEFA’s inaugural MEFA Measures Survey.

Advertising still struggles to reach everyone, Mediatel’s latest Future of Brands event heard from a panel featuring Mars, Creative Equals, the UN Unstereotype Alliance and the ASA.

What are media agencies telling the next generation of strategists?

The media industry is in a powerful position to champion diversity and inclusion. But it’s important to move beyond mentoring and into sponsorship.

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.

Kirya Francis talks to The Media Leader about the challenges and the rewards of working as chief diversity officer for Omnicom’s Advertising Collective. 

Creating a TV market duopoly will weaken advertisers’ trading stances and the output of our marketing efforts, writes BT’s media manager.

Sajeeda Merali tells The Media Leader about her forward-looking vision.

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

“Nielsen can’t grow new future products without diverting resources away from their highly profitable legacy ones; but to remain relevant they must do just that. Perhaps a PE firm is the best bet for Nielsen after all.”