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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.

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.

After absorbing Interpublic, Omnicom Media Germany has named the leadership of its merged organisation under CEO Paul Remitz — and promises a 'completely new operating model'.

Vincent Bolloré's Lagardère Media News has taken 90% of the publisher of 'Front Populaire', extending his media galaxy and reigniting France's media-concentration debate.

French holding company Publicis has won pharma group Gilead's US media buying, estimated at $344m, unseating IPG in the wake of Omnicom's IPG merger.

Talk-and-sport station RMC revealed its 2026-27 schedule, keeping its blend of hard news, opinion-talk and wall-to-wall sport — the tentpole slots agencies buy for autumn.

TF1 group calibrated its 2026-27 TF1 and LCI schedules around the run-up to France's 2027 presidential election, anchoring its autumn ad inventory in news and debate.