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Pinterest names Fintan Gillespie as new UK and Ireland managing director

Cloudflare's Chema Alonso says the content-for-traffic pact is dead. The replacement starts on Tuesday.

‘This looks more like an existential threat’: Newman’s numbers meet Shishkin’s plumbing

Media Party opens in Barcelona with three versions of the trust problem

EE turns journalism into a retention perk with Readly deal for a million households

Netflix and Waitrose join the ASA campaign as media owners raise their donations

IAB UK’s Elizabeth Lane on why programmatic outdoor won’t repeat display’s collapse

Ten grad-scheme applications, no interviews: why the Times’ Head of Community founded the Young Journalists Network

Canva is standardising the science to buy room for creative risk

The Media Stack members get two free nights at the FIPP Congress hotel in Madrid

The Search Query Is Changing. Measurement Hasn’t Caught Up.

Three million new advertisers are paying for Britain’s ad boom

Media Party in Barcelona, September 7th & 8th, register now!

Why VaynerMedia's media buyers are becoming engineers

Global South World is building a news brand for the half of the planet Western media stopped watching.

After the QR Code: IRCODE, Sinclair and the Scannable Broadcast

Is the age of the moat over? Criteo’s Marc Fischli on OpenAI, agentic buying and life after retargeting

The most Leveson-minded prime minister ever to reach No 10

Discipline, applied: what Accenture Song is really selling

Flip-Pay built Ireland’s biggest paywall. Now it’s helping American newsrooms take theirs down

Trust becomes a hard metric as the Advertising Association turns 100

Synthetic Research Only Works If the Humans Underneath Are Real

Waitrose's Nathan Ansell named as the next Advertising Association President

Publish less, own more: a day inside The Publisher Summit

TikTok wants the industry to fall back in love with creativity. Symphony Agent is built to do it faster.

Louis Dreyfus on how Le Monde made AI pay on its own terms

Sir John Hegarty’s verdict: advertising is now a product people pay to avoid

AB InBev Has Won Creative Marketer of the Year Three Times. Marcel Marcondes Says It Is an Operating Achievement, Not a Creative One.

AB InBev Has Won Creative Marketer of the Year Three Times. Marcel Marcondes Says It Is an Operating Achievement, Not a Creative One.

Ten Conclusions From Cannes Lions Festival 2026

George Russell and Maria Sharapova: Pressure Is a Privilege

The Industry Is Betting That Scale Plus AI Equals Value. Dentsu’s New CEO Disagrees

TikTok at Cannes Lions Festival: Why Creativity Is Now a Business Tool, Not a Brand Virtue

On Press Gazette's News Yacht, Publishers Prepare for a Two-Web Future

Ad Net Zero has a framework covering 95% of global media spend. Only 4.3% of ads show sustainable behaviour.

The Numbers UK Publishers Were Dreading

Pinterest embeds platform data in AI-driven ad workflows ahead of Cannes Lions Festival

AI Is Eating Publisher Traffic. Sky News and Daily Mail Are Both Dealing With It.

Publishers killed the comment section. FOCUS online is rebuilding it as a product.

Why publishers are betting on relationships over reach

UK Advertising Takes Its Export Pitch to Cannes with a New Brand and Record Numbers Behind It

Anthropic’s Fable 5: the most capable AI on the market comes with strings attached

Why Knowing What Your Customer Is Thinking Beats Knowing Who They Are

Same Diagnosis, Seven Different Cures: Inside WAN-IFRA News Media Congress in Marseille

Everyone’s Talking About AI Skills. 61% of Newsrooms Spend Nothing on Training.

Google is still sending you traffic. For now.

OpenAI Supports Publishers Everywhere except the Balance Sheet

SPUR Goes Global: WAN-IFRA and FIPP Back Publisher Alliance to Shape AI Licensing Market

‘Lean Into Who You Are’: Viner on the Guardian’s Bet Against AI

The New York Times calls AI’s founding act a theft

Intent Is Everything. Pinterest Has More of It Than You Think

The diagnosis is agreed; the treatments diverge

UK Advertising Takes a Government-Backed Growth Mission to Cannes Lions

Publicis buys LiveRamp for $2.2bn, and the advertising industry loses its neutral middleman

Newsrewired 2026: Six Sessions, One Recurring Question

Meta’s Ad Machine Is Worth $240bn. Now Investors Want to Know What Happens If It Breaks

The New York Times is becoming subscription infrastructure for other publishers.

From the INMA World Congress: four publishers' agentic AI playbooks

Advertising Association at 100: trust problem still unfinished

Misdiagnosed: Why the News Industry's Young Audience Problem Is Not What It Thinks

UK Ad Spend Reaches £46.7bn. The Reclassification Underneath Matters More

WARC's 2026 Consumer Trends: One in Ten People Are in a Relationship with an AI

The Guardian Didn’t Digitise Print. It Automated It.

Marketing’s AI Problem Isn’t AI. It’s Data.

Young voters don’t trust political ads. The advertising industry wants to change that.

AI Is Everywhere in Marketing. Almost Nobody Has It Working.

Reddit Is Getting Paid to Feed the Machine That's Eating Publishing

The Verdict That Should Make Publishers Nervous

When the World is Watching

The World Cup Will Generate $10.5 Billion in Ad Spend. The Problem Is That’s Less Than Last Time.

GWI’s Tom Smith on Agent Spark, agentic AI and why 2026 is the year the insights industry has to move

Joanna Milliken on SAP Engagement Cloud: “This Isn’t About a New Name”

Bauer Media’s Stuart Forrest: “The Premium Is on Expertise, Not Volume”

The Industry Charity Picking Up the Pieces

Three Words, the Titanium Lion, and the Top of the WARC Creative 100

IAB Tech Lab Launches "CoMP Framework" to Force Commercial Terms Before AI Content Crawling

The Week OpenAI Blinked — and Anthropic Hit $19 Billion

Young People Haven’t Given Up on News. They’ve Changed the Rules.

The Solow Paradox gives us clues about how UK Media companies should adopt AI

The AI That Attacked a Developer Had a Personality File. It Read Like a Recipe for Trouble.

Why Amazon Joining Prebid Changes Digital Ad Auctions – and What It Means for Publishers

Netflix’s Ad Business Is No Longer a Side Project

Rejected by a Human. So the AI Wrote a Hit Piece.

Former eBay and Thomson Reuters CEO Builds AI Platform That’s Actually Working for Publishers.

How Prospect Magazine Has Added a Million Readers Through Digital Transformation and Strategic Diversification

Human judgement is journalism’s ‘decisive factor’ in the AI era, says FT chief Jon Slade

Every Prime Minister Has Been More Unpopular Than the Last”: The Sun’s Political Editor on Britain’s Trust Crisis

From Zayn Malik to Mental Health: Record Producer Anthony Hannides Launches Music Wellness App

The Guardian’s AI Strategy: Caspar Llewellyn Smith on Navigating Digital Disruption

Leadership Through Trust: How UK Advertising is Fighting to Rebuild Consumer Confidence

Cannes Lions Names 2026 Jury Presidents: Independent Agencies Break Through

Trust in Advertising Hit 40 Per Cent. The Industry Thinks That’s a Win.

UK ad spend hits £12.5bn in Q3 as market charges toward £50bn milestone.

How Alma Media’s AI Chatbot is Rewriting the First-Party Data Playbook

How News Publishers Can Fight Back Against Big Tech’s Advertising Stranglehold

Why Your Agency’s Bespoke Approach Is Killing Your Margins

News Publishers Fight Back: Inside the Make It Fair Campaign

Traditional Media Planning Is Dead. What Comes Next Is Messier.

The Mill Media's Simple Bet: Readers Pay for Quality

The AI Licensing Gold Rush Is Built on Quicksand

McKinsey & Co Now Employs 25,000 AI Agents—And That’s Just the Start

UMG and NVIDIA Partner on AI Music Discovery

TiVo OS Unveils Smart TV Updates Focused on Live Content and Discovery

People Are Rewriting Their Careers, Not Just Their CVs