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Roger Lynch is stepping down as CEO of Condé Nast to lead toymaker Mattel, succeeding Ynon Kreiz, in a notable media-and-brand executive shuffle.

Arena Media has won all UK & Ireland media planning and buying for film studio Lionsgate after a competitive pitch, a visible entertainment-sector win for Havas.

German email and cloud provider GMX has unveiled its first logo overhaul in more than 20 years, part of a United Internet rebrand that aims to sharpen its appeal as an advertising medium.

WPP Media has appointed Laura Ryan, previously global CEO of IPG's Orion Worldwide, as its new chief media officer overseeing global investment and partnerships.

Public-broadcaster sales house ARD Media has launched 'Flex-Kombi', letting advertisers assemble their own national radio buys by audience, region and budget for the first time.

Mediaplus UK has appointed Anna Palmer as Head of Comms Planning & Strategy to lead a newly created division, part of its post-rebrand London expansion.

After 13 straight quarters of falling sales, Dave & Buster's names GUT as creative AOR and Mediaplus as media AOR to drive its growth marketing turnaround.

A WFA and MediaSense study finds 75% of advertisers expect to change how they pay agencies within three years, shifting from time to outcomes.

ARD Media has unveiled 'Audionited,' bundling linear radio and digital audio into a single programmatic booking with one CPM — a structural simplification of German audio buying.

Corporate wellness platform Wellpass, formerly Gymlib, has appointed EDG's media agency Lift to run its media strategy, betting on connected TV and sport podcasts to reach employers.

France's biggest-selling daily, Ouest-France, has announced a restructuring plan to eliminate 156 positions, 116 of them editorial — a stark signal of the regional-press crisis.

WARC's 'Health of Creativity' analysis finds TV's role as the lead channel in the world's top award-winning campaigns has fallen sharply over a decade.

Broadcaster Amol Rajan's new media platform has landed Waitrose and NatWest as founding partners — the latest sign of big brands underwriting journalist-led content ventures.

DoorDash has named WPP Media its first global media partner across 40-plus markets, pulling brands like Deliveroo and Wolt into one consolidated account — a major win for WPP.

Accenture Song has hired Melissa Fein to scale its US media business — a hire that puts the consulting-owned agency squarely on the turf of the traditional media holding companies.

France's two parliamentary channels, LCP and Public Sénat, have renewed their advertising sales mandate with FranceTV Publicité — a quiet but telling vote for scaled, trusted ad sales.

Canal+ Brand Solutions donates a shared 'solidarity advertising screen' to the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, with EDF, Intermarché, MAIF and Unibet co-funding — a lesson in structural, not performative, purpose.

A Berlin court says transit operator BVG must keep running Nius ads it tried to pull. Why the ruling is a brand-safety and acceptance-policy wake-up call for out-of-home media.

Paramount Skydance settles a 12-state antitrust suit with output, US-production and editorial concessions — clearing its ~$110bn Warner Bros. Discovery deal. What consolidation means for advertisers.

German broadcaster Seven.One Media is partnering with Criteo and Kleinanzeigen on new data deals designed to make its TV advertising more addressable and measurable.