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Rajar Q1 2024 analysis: Commercial radio reached a new record audience in the last quarter with 39.7m weekly listeners, according to Rajar figures.

Bauer’s Hits Radio Breakfast Show has quadrupled its weekly audience year-on-year, according to the latest figures. 

Rajar Q1 2024 analysis: Ken Bruce’s mid-morning show on Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio has reached 4.1m weekly listeners.

Rajar Q1 2024 analysis: Smart speaker listening now accounts for 16.6% of total radio listening, according to new figures.

Spotify’s global head of ad sales and partnerships Brian Berner said increased focus on data intelligence and multiformat spots were “critical” parts of longer-term plans for advertising.

Broadcasters should be focus much more on co-operation rather than on squabbling and forcing the Culture Secretary to have to adjudicate.

A coalition of media businesses has penned an open letter highlighting the “disastrous impact” the BBC’s plan to take on advertising would have on the sector.

The Bauer Media Audio UK CEO’s priorities are balancing investment between digital and broadcast, focusing on marketing its brands and empowering people.

Reporters Jack Benjamin and Ella Sagar are back with a look at the stories that mattered most in media and advertising this week.

Agencies and advertisers need to “push back” on “the flood of money” going into social and untrusted environments, according to sales leaders.