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

The pair discuss how growth in the Chinese ad market has driven upward revisions in GroupM's mid-year ad forecasts, the industry's response to António Guterres' call for a global fossil-fuel ad ban and what Apple's WWDC announcements mean for publishers.

Highlights:

1:00: Unpacking GroupM's latest adspend report

5:02: UN urges fossil-fuel ad ban to muted industry response

9:20: OOH surpasses 5% market share threshold

12:20: Apple WWDC AI announcements

16:35: News round-up: BFI Imax anniversary, May box office, Bauer podcasts, Paramount's Skydance talks and BeReal acquisition

Where has the joy gone in digital advertising? And how can we get it back?

James Chandler, chief marketing officer at the IAB, thinks that while the start of the digital scene was "an incredibly exciting space", the feeling of "joy and magic dissipated" somewhere along the way.

In a study with advertisers, the IAB found that this came down to two things: "unease" about the pace of change and a feeling of "futility mainly around creativity", where advertisers do not feel "they have got much agency" in a world of algorithms and AI.

Indeed, as Chandler acknowledges, in a seven-year career at the IAB, there have been "big moments" including brand safety, fraud and ad-blocking – all of which have had "advertisers questioning the integrity of the performance of digital".

So the focus should be on getting people to "rediscover" joy, fun and creativity in digital advertising.

Chandler joins Ella Sagar to discuss joy in digital advertising and highlights sessions from the recent Engage conference, including talks from former UK MD for Twitter Dara Nasr and EssenceMediacom's Geoff de Burca and Lindsey Jordan.

Highlights

03:32: Why joy in advertising is so important and where it has gone

07:15: What would a two-tier dystopian internet look like?

11.56: A rallying cry for creativity from EssenceMediacom strategy chief Geoff de Burca

12.38: Former Twitter UK MD Dara Nasr on making the internet fun

15:58: Holding a mirror up to society

19.47: Key takeaways from IAB Engage

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

The duo discuss what the pre-election period means for held-up government adspend, recent M&A activity by MediaSense and Mediaplus, and why the Evening Standard has fallen on troubled times.

Highlights:

0:40: How much government adspend has been put on hold during the pre-election period

4:39: MediaSense acquires PwC's media advisory

6:36: Indie merger: Total Media and Mediaplus

9:50: Why the Evening Standard dropped its daily edition

12:28: Takeaways from IAB Engage

14:25: The AA's new report on trust

16:30: News round-up: Election debate overnights, new leadership at Ocean Outdoor, plus The Washington Post, X's adult content and Netflix's gaming additions