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Frankfurt utility Mainova keeps incumbent media agency Dunkelgrün after a multi-stage pitch — a lesson in defending the client you already have.

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

From the 2026/27 season, DAZN and Disney+ will broadcast Spain's La Liga in France, ending beIN Sports' 14-year hold — and marking Disney+'s arrival in French live sport.

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.

Metrobus has won the RATP's advertising sales concession, a contract reported at around €1.8bn over 12 years, and will run advertising across 45 new Grand Paris Express stations.

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.

Hamburg agency Grabarz & Partner has ended its roughly decade-long partnership with Porsche, turning a painful account loss into a dignified industry moment as Serviceplan takes over.

Stagwell CEO Mark Penn is doubling the holding company's new-business team and plans to add around 1,000 staff, escalating the fight for accounts among holdcos.

Footwear brand Ecco has launched a global media review with adviser support, adding to a busy year of blue-chip pitches reshaping agency rosters.

Alzheimer's Society has appointed a media agency following a competitive review — the latest charity to overhaul its media as fundraising budgets come under pressure.

The structure of the £1.3bn UK government media account won by WPP has been revealed — a landmark contract that hands one holding company enormous public-sector reach.

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'.

Lidl GB has shortlisted OMD, iProspect and WPP Media for its UK media account, putting incumbent OMD under pressure as part of a wider European media review.

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.

TF1's H1 2026 results show its streaming platform TF1+ doing the heavy lifting: ad revenue up 19% and 44 million monthly streamers, offsetting soft linear TV. Here's the European broadcaster blueprint.

ProSiebenSat.1's H1 2026 revenue fell ~9% as Germany's TV ad market weakened and World Cup rivals drew viewers away — yet cost cuts and Joyn's growth lifted profit and the shares.

The Trade Desk's shares fell ~22% after Q2 2026 revenue of $715.1m missed forecasts. Why the open web's biggest independent DSP wobbling matters — and what advertisers should do.

Nielsen is taking ad-verification giant DoubleVerify private for about $2.15bn. Inside the deal, why measurement is consolidating, and what brands should do about vendor independence.

WPP shares leapt as much as 30% after first-half profit and margins beat expectations — even as revenue fell 4.4%. Inside Cindy Rose's turnaround and what it means for brands.

Disney sells its A+E Global Media stake — History, A&E, Lifetime — to Hearst for $1.2bn, another sign the majors are cashing out of linear cable to fund streaming.