Carolyn McCall has been appointed ITV’s first female chief executive. She will succeed Adam Crozier early next year. McCall is joining ITV from easyJet where she has been chief executive for seven years. She was ...

Sky and BT Sports should take note. Live TV coverage of football has been disrupted by a young, digital media company. Copa90, a fan-focused football channel originally launched on YouTube just five years ago, has ...

As problems go, the news that The Great British Bake Off was moving from the BBC to a commercial rival was perhaps more than a little ‘first world’. Beloved presenters, including Mel, Sue and the ...

The BBC has announced plans to overhaul its Children’s programming to tackle competition from the internet. Investing an additional £34m across the next three years, the budget for children’s programming will rise to £124.4m by ...

The world’s highest paid YouTube star PewDiePie has been dropped by Disney over allegations of anti-Semitism, after several videos he released were found to contain Nazi references or anti-Semitic imagery. PewDiePie’s association with Disney comes ...

Kanye West might be a global superstar but that doesn’t carry much weight on the Isle of Skye where his recent visit to the Scottish island to record a video was completely downplayed in the ...

The UK’s public confidence in businesses remained stable, while trust in media and the government has dipped.  According to the 2014  edition of global PR agency Edelman’s Trust Barometer, faith in the media, which had staged ...

Grand Theft Auto V, Daniel Craig as James Bond in Skyfall and FIFA ’14  attracted enough takers in 2013 to pull the UK’s entertainment sector out of the doldrums.  According to preliminary year-end figures released by ...

In continuation of our Top 10 Top 10s, here’s a look at the leading stories in public relations this year, according to @DayalPriyanka. Read up on the top 10 news that made, shook and shaped the ...

Nike (AKQA) took home the prize for the ‘digital campaign of the year’ while AMVBBDO was named the ‘digital agency of the year’ at the 2013 Digital Impact Awards that took place last evening at ...

The BBC’s decision to hire Godric Smith, the government’s former spin chief, to help rebuild its damaged reputation amid the Jimmy Savile child-abuse scandal, seems to have backfired. The news reported first by The Sunday ...

In just under a year, Netflix Inc. went from being a DVD-shipping company to a market leading video sharing service, outpacing leading television networks and bumping its share value threefold on the way. How? By ...