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Spotify crossed 300M Premium subscribers and revealed its automated sales channel now makes up nearly 40% of ad-supported revenue — a big shift in how brands buy audio.

Pinterest reported Q2 2026 revenue up 18%, crediting AI as a clear accelerant for advertiser performance — though user growth came almost entirely from lower-monetizing markets.

In its first full quarter as Paramount Skydance, the company leaned on streaming growth and argued its pending Warner Bros. Discovery deal will be good for advertisers.

Lucozade Ribena Suntory has appointed Dark Horses as lead creative agency for Lucozade, as the energy brand approaches its 100th anniversary.

Prostate Cancer UK's 'This Club Matters More' unites rival football fans under a fictional 'Prostate United' — and marks the final work from agency Elvis.

Coca-Cola Great Britain has launched 'Counter Cultures', a campaign celebrating the family-run hospitality businesses that stock its drinks.

Soft-drinks maker AG Barr has appointed VCCP Media as its media agency of record after a competitive four-way pitch, unseating incumbent the7stars.

Co-op, with Carat UK and Platform Media, has launched 'Pop to Co-op', a four-part comedy microdrama — a first for UK grocery.

Mondelez's Dairylea has launched 'A World of Their Own', a VCCP-created campaign celebrating childhood independence and taking a gentle swipe at helicopter parenting.

TBWA has rolled out its first full global visual identity, a deliberately imperfect, handmade system built in-house by Design by Disruption.

Agency thjnk has launched a new brand platform, 'FEEL GLÜCK', for Lotto Baden-Württemberg — a 360-degree campaign uniting the state lottery's products under one feel-good idea.

Footwear retailer Deichmann and Fila have launched a Gen-Z campaign fronted by creator Kayla Shyx, shot in retro camcorder style to celebrate analogue, offline moments across 17 countries.

German utility E.ON is launching 'House of Power', a scripted-reality YouTube series with Google and agency Mawave, using creators and challenges to make renewable-energy tech entertaining.

Coca-Cola Deutschland is back as an official Bundesliga partner after ten years, with a big season-launch campaign — a bet on football's mass reach as the 2026/27 season kicks off.

Paris agency Fred & Farid conceived the global campaign for 'Rare Beginnings', the second fragrance from Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty — a French creative win on a major international brief.

A Kantar study found nearly €100m of gross ad investment ran around France's eight World Cup matches on M6, with Google the biggest advertiser — a concrete read on the value of premium live sport.

French TV audience data for July 2026 shows France 2 leading on 17.0%, ahead of TF1, while M6 recorded its strongest month in two decades on World Cup football — reshaping the buy for advertisers.

OOH specialist Mediatransports has won the advertising concession for Montpellier's bus and tram network — roughly 650 ad faces across 185 buses — part of a run of regional transit-media wins.

French media regulator Arcom has fined Bolloré-owned news channel CNews €200,000 over on-air remarks judged to incite hatred — a reminder that brand-safety risk runs to the platforms carrying your ads.

France's JCDecaux reported 5.7% organic revenue growth in H1 2026, with net profit nearly doubling as digital out-of-home leads — a bright spot in a softer French ad market.