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Omnicom media agency UM successfully defended the media mandate for European public broadcaster Arte in a competitive pitch, retaining the incumbent relationship.

The French public broadcaster launched a back-to-school self-promotion under the paradoxical line 'the screen that inspires screen-free time', riding the screen-time public-health wave.

Libération has rehired Jean-Michel Lopes as director of its advertising régie, overseeing print, digital and events monetisation, with a pitch of 'attention over impressions'.

Kids-media publisher Unique Heritage Media introduced 'Tribu L'hebdo', a weekly print title for 8-12 year-olds, betting on print subscriptions in a screen-heavy world.

Billionaire Xavier Niel, via NJJ Médias, is the frontrunner to acquire consumer magazine 60 Millions de Consommateurs from the state institute INC, which is being wound up.

Radio France's inter-union assembly voted to authorise a strike after management lined up a Valeurs Actuelles deputy editor for a France Inter slot — an editorial-independence flashpoint.

Publicis landed PepsiCo's global media business (which spent $3.4bn on advertising in 2025) without a formal pitch, and withdrew from the Coca-Cola global media review to take it.

David Dinsmore, Director of Government Communications and former Sun editor, will leave on 30 September 2026 by mutual agreement, resetting the UK's biggest comms operation.

Premium yoghurt brand The Collective is going national with its debut masterbrand TV campaign via Bountiful Cow, concentrating spend on Channel 4, Meta and YouTube.

Havas is restructuring its UK business and elevating Patrick 'Paddy' Affleck to UK CEO across media and creative, deepening its single-'Village' integration bet.

The 2026 Media Week Awards shortlist is out ahead of the 15 October ceremony — a snapshot of the UK media work the industry rates most highly, and a useful read on where media thinking is heading.

After building a 500-agent network, CapCar is buying its first mass-market fame with a TF1 sponsorship — a textbook example of a digital-native brand graduating to television.

The German Cup's first redesign in ten years splits its palette by context — heritage green for stadiums, electric violet for the feed. A template other sports brands will copy.

Two telecoms rivals have pooled their permission-based mobile audiences into a single 11.5-million-strong SMS and RCS advertising offer — and the engagement numbers are hard to ignore.

ARD Media and DAZN are jointly selling the Saturday Bundesliga conference across radio and streaming — a first-of-its-kind public-private ad tie-up.

Around 25 independent French titles are forming a shared ad sales house, Quatrième Pouvoir, to make their engaged niche audiences sellable to advertisers.

Sud Radio has rebuilt its 2026-27 schedule for la rentrée, with Jacques Cardoze taking the morning show and a doubling-down on opinionated talk.

France's public news brand franceinfo has unveiled a new signature, 'Le réflexe info', deployed across radio, TV, digital and social at once.

Omnicom Media has fused Hearts & Science and Mediahub into a single global agency, Hearts United, with Charles Roussaux running the French operation.

The first barometer from L'Annuaire des agences, built on INSEE data, counts nearly 20,000 active communication agencies in France — but 84.7% employ 10 people or fewer.