Episodes 40
Avg. Duration 32m
Activity Highly Active
Since Mar 2023
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

MediaCat UK is an online publication that covers the media side of the marketing industry. We produce news, analysis and commentary primarily for people who work within brands, platforms, media agencies, and media owners — but also for anyone with a professional interest in media. Our aim is to chronicle and inspire innovation in media by reporting how channels and consumption habits are changing, and how agencies and marketers are adapting to those changes. MediaCat UK is published by Kapital Media.

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Recent Episodes

‘OOH was the unexpected winner of Q1’

Jun 03, 2026 13m

MediaCat UK's deputy MD, Selin Ozkan, sat down with reporters Elliot Wright and India Stronach to discuss the findings from our Q1 earnings-call report, how brands are using media to grow and how…

‘Algorithms can lead to conventional outcomes’

Apr 13, 2026 31m

Last month, Dentsu X published its Creator Catalyst report in partnership with Meta. Drawing on industry insights and real-world experience, the report examines how creator marketing has evolved and…

Is it really the best time to be a media planner?

Apr 08, 2026 1h 6m

There are many causes for concern for media planners and buyers. AI is threatening jobs, platforms are hogging clients' budgets and looking for ways to disintermediate agencies, and…

Taking the friction out of open-web advertising

Mar 10, 2026 38m

'Technology is going to make the open web as efficient as the walled gardens, but still allow it to keep its independence.' Stephanie Himoff is bullish on the future of the open web. As EVP for…

Advertising’s fraud problem, with Nick Manning

Feb 26, 2026 35m

A substantial proportion of the advertising that people see and hear now does not come from the ad industry but from other sources — sources that don't care much whether the content is legal, decent,…

‘A lot of content is branded and you don’t realise it.’

Jan 22, 2026 39m

In this episode of the MediaCat UK podcast, editor James Swift talks content marketing with Carlotta Rossi Spencer, head of branded entertainment business development at Banijay. Banijay is the…

Is social media getting more social?

Jan 14, 2026 6m

Why is TikTok adding new social features, and what does it have to do with watching TV with robots? In this podcast episode, editor James Swift and reporter India Stronach discuss how social media…

‘It’s a cut-throat industry full of nice people’

Dec 08, 2025 45m

Craft Media London doesn't buy or make ads. The agency provides clients with comms strategy, filling the hole that exists between media and creative agencies, but nothing else. Given the agency's…

The state of social media, with Slice

Aug 29, 2025

The state of social media depends very much on the perspective you take. Financially speaking, it's in rude health. WARC predicts that brands will spend $300bn on the channel in 2026, which would…

Nick Manning on principal-based media buying

May 01, 2025

Nick Manning has got principal-based media buying in his sights. The former media agency co-founder — who has begun a movement to help the industry ‘get its mojo back’ — has published a paper on the…

2025 media trends, with dentsu and iProspect

Dec 11, 2024

For this podcast MediaCat's Opinions Editor, Mike Piggott, spoke to Dan Calladine, head of media futures at dentsu, and Grace Letley, head of strategy UK at iProspect, about dentsu's new report, The…

Tom Gent on creating standout multi-platform video content

Nov 27, 2024

For this podcast MediaCat's Opinions Editor, Mike Piggott, spoke to Tom Gent, founder and Head of Creative at award-winning content agency, Founder Creative. With a career spanning two decades in the…

Talking regenerative brand design with Bob Sheard

Nov 20, 2024

For this podcast our Editor Mike Piggott spoke to Bob Sheard, co-founder of brand design agency FreshBritain. They discussed how Bob got into brand design, and how he was quite possibly the first man…

Simon Akers and Jaz Poke on neurodiversity in media

Nov 19, 2024

In this podcast MediaCat's Opinions Editor Mike Piggott spoke to Simon Akers (founder and partner at Archmon) and Jaz Poke (Business Development Director EMEA at Omnicom Media Group), co-founders of…

Sam Missingham introduces Meet The Booktokers

Oct 24, 2024

In this podcast MediaCat's Content and Social Media Editor, Svilena Keane, speaks to the founder of The Empowered Author and Meet The Booktokers, Samantha Missingham. They discuss the evolution of…

Future of Media: Key takeaways

Oct 17, 2024 16m

On this week's episode, MediaCat's Head of Content and Partnerships Selin Ozkan and Content and Social Media Editor Svilena Keane take over the MediaCat Magazine Podcast to discuss Future of Media,…

Talking next gen influencers with We Are Social

Oct 07, 2024

In the latest MediaCat Magazine podcast our Editor Mike Piggott chats to the Global Head of Research & Insights at We Are Social, Paul Greenwood, about their latest report, Next Gen Influence —…

Beastie Boys, lemons and wonderful things

Aug 27, 2024

For the latest MediaCat Magazine podcast our editor, Mike Piggott, spoke to Grace Francis, Jamie Mancini and Katy Collins — co-founders of new independent creative studio, Wonderful Things. The theme…

Liquid Death’s Andy Pearson on humour and entertainment

Aug 08, 2024

For this podcast we had a guest host, regular contributor to the magazine, author and co-founder of Genius Steals, Faris Yakob, take control. His guest was VP of Creative at Liquid Death, Andy…

Emily Fairhead-keen discusses godlike brands

Jul 10, 2024

In this pod our Editor Mike Piggott chats to regular MediaCat Magazine contributor, Emily Fairhead-keen, Senior Strategy Partner at Wavemaker who, in her career, has also worked at MediaCom, Vizeum…

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