Covering the news this week, the Campaign editorial team discusses adland's biggest issues across media, creativity and tech.

The team, hosted by media editor Beau Jackson, discusses the Sky media shortlist and why agency pitches are moving to a holding group solution their biggest clients. Tech editor Lucy Shelley delves deeper into Brave Bison's full-year results and how the agency made the Social Chain acquisition pay off. Deputy news editor Marianne Calnan gives her verdict from being on the ground at the Rise conference last week.

Plus, the team reveal the campaigns that have caught their eye in the last week, including Waitrose's fallen billboard by Saatchi & Saatchi London, Ovo Energy's "Power nap" Alexa campaign by Goodstuff and Saatchis, and Tails.com's abundance (or not?) of labradors by TheOr.

Further reading:

Now takes ‘heart-breaking’ decision to close after 13 years

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Mail Metro Media, PHD and Zenith were among the big winners at this year’s sellout Campaign Media Awards.

Joining Campaign media editor Beau Jackson, they each discuss their competition; give behind-the-scenes insight into their award winning work; talk about where media makes a difference to a strong creative campaign and give a sneak-peak of what’s coming up this year.

She is joined by:

• Lauren Dick, executive director of media and data at Mail Metro Media, winner of Commercial Team of the Year

• Richard Clay, chief strategy officer at Zenith, whose seven wins included Banks & Financial Services, Best Use of Insight and Creative Idea - budget over £250K

• Tilly Macpherson-Bruty, associate planning director at PHD UK who worked on the Grand Prix winning "Pink sky thinking" campaign for Warner Bros' Barbie movie

Further reading:

Campaign Media Awards 2024: winners revealed

In Pictures: Campaign Media Awards 2024

Campaign Media Awards 2024: shortlist revealed

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‘Lunch and learn’ sessions are a historic part of the relationship between agencies and media owners - but how should they work, and are they still necessary? In this week’s episode, the Media Week Podcast team cook up their recipes for the ideal lunch and learn, as well as discussing the etiquette of CTV ads, AI news recommendations, and Disney’s efforts to lead the way in programmatic streaming ads.

Hosted by Bukky from Wavemaker, Harriet from Publicis, Charlie from ShowHeroes and Jack from Craft Media.

Figures quoted in the MediaWeek podcast were accurate at the time of recording.

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