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 unpack The Media Leader Awards, which saw Mail Metro Media awarded four gongs, including a Grand Prix for chief revenue officer Dominic Williams. They also discuss the importance of media in the run-up to next week's general election and the EU's potential action against Apple under the Digital Markets Act.

Highlights:

00:26: The Media Leader Awards and Mail Metro Media's aggressive AV strategy

5:11: General election run-up – whether fact-based political ads can be regulated, plus the importance of social media to this year's campaigns

14:57: Apple found in breach of the Digital Markets Act

17:40: News round-up: European Programmatic TV Initiative, UN framework for tackling misinformation and disinformation, contingency plans for the US TikTok ban, Bauer's Rayo app and Telegraph Media Group loss

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