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After acquiring Sky Deutschland, RTL is restructuring its football portfolio across pay and free-to-air — reshaping Germany’s sports-media landscape and its ad and subscription inventory.

Nielsen data show Germany’s ad market fell again in July, dragged down by television advertising that Horizont describes as ‘in crisis’ — continuing a volatile 2026.

LVMH-owned daily Le Parisien reported a record €71.3m net loss for 2025, nearly double the prior year, as print sales fall below 25,000 copies a day.

France's BFM TV rebuilds its 2026-2027 schedule around the 2027 presidential race, with new shows and vertical social content.

Heroes Media has sold the French magazine VSD to entrepreneur Vianney d'Alançon, the man behind a Puy du Fou-style historical park — a rare profitable print title changes hands.

German ad budgets are being reordered as paid search overtakes TV and retail media surges, with Google, Amazon and Meta now capturing more than half of all ad investment.

French cinemas drew 17.53m admissions in July 2026 — up 22.6% year on year and near pre-Covid levels — powered by Nolan's 'The Odyssey' and 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'.

Papa Johns has promoted Chris Lyn-Sue to global CMO and signalled a pivot back to mass-reach advertising, as Q2 2026 North American comparable sales fell 8.3%.

RAJAR Q2 2026: UK radio reached a record 51.1 million weekly listeners, and commercial radio's 40.2m audience now towers over the BBC's 30.9m — the widest gap of the RAJAR era.

The latest AA/WARC Expenditure Report shows UK ad spend hit £11.7bn in Q1 2026 (+9.3%). But TV’s 0.8% headline hides a split: linear flat, addressable up 15.5%.

Ofcom's Media Nations 2026 report finds Netflix is now the first-choice service for 26% of UK viewers versus the BBC's 25% — and YouTube on the TV set has doubled since 2022. What it means for media plans.

AA/WARC forecasts double-digit momentum carrying the UK advertising market past a landmark £50bn figure in 2026.