The Meaningful Media Podcast

In the latest episode of the Meaningful Media Podcast, we dive into Havas Media Network's recently released 2025 Media Imperatives report, a robust report rich with perspectives from consumers, media platforms, and brands.Capturing consumer attention is one of today’s biggest challenges. With rising expectations and a new era of consumer agency, brands must balance AI with the human touch, push personalization without overstepping, and deliver seamless, privacy-first media experiences. It’s a tricky dance—but the stakes have never been higher.With Havas Media Network experts Jamie Seltzer, Global EVP, CSA & Mx Analytics, Seema Patel, CPC, ELI-MP, Global Managing Director, Mx Intelligence, Joanna Lawrence, Global Chief Strategy Officer, and Jonathan Waite, Global Managing Director, Mx, host Ben Downing explores how brands and partners can turn insights from this report into action. Ready to make 2025 the year of meaningful media? Let’s get started.🎙️ 

In the newest episode of the Meaningful Media Podcast, "Unwrapping The Future of Luxury E-Commerce," host Ben Downing "unwraps" how the world of high-end goods is evolving, examining luxury from two perspectives: its transformation across global and regional markets and the impact of digital marketplaces reshaping the industry.This special holiday episode brings together Havas experts Victoria Ducournau, Head of Havas Market España, and Cherry Collins, Strategy Partner at Havas Media Lux. Drawing from recent reports they've authored, they delve into luxury e-commerce trends, shifting buyer demographics, regional dynamics, leading luxury brands, and more.Get ready to rethink what luxury means—and where it’s found.

On the Meaningful Media Podcast, we explore how trusted, engaging, and influential media can drive change – delivering for brands, people, and the planet.  This philosophy was born out of our landmark Meaningful Brands study – an ongoing research project Havas initiated in 2009 to understand people’s aspirations, guardrails and expectations of brands.  Meaningful Brands is more than an impressive feat of data intelligence and analysis – it creates a shared understanding of consumers that underpins how we help brands become more meaningful and how they can grow.  In today’s episode, we’ll be exploring our latest edition of Meaningful Brands. This year’s research found that a staggering 74% of brands could disappear and consumers would not care, but there are brands that are bucking this trend. They have fierce loyalty and are outperforming the market. To uncover how all organizations can take a page from their playbook and become more meaningful, we’ve converged leaders from our media and creative networks to explore these findings.  

In this special episode of The Meaningful Media Podcast, Havas Media Network London's Global Managing Director of Mx, Jonathan Waite, welcomes Author and Researcher Karen Nelson-Field PhD to Havas Village London for a fireside chat on attention. In this exclusive session, Nelson-Field gives a sneak peek into her newest book The Attention Economy, A Category Blueprint —which we'll be giving out FIVE free copies of to the first five people who share our LinkedIn post!

On the Meaningful Media podcast, we know that attention is key to breaking through to consumers in a landscape where content is increasingly fragmented and competition for eyeball and ‘share of ear’ is fierce. Attention has since grown from its relative nascency in the marketing world to being implemented in media planning, buying, and measurement across the industry. But what is the specific amount of attention needed to achieve a brand’s desired outcomes? New research that Havas Media Network has conducted in partnership with Lumen Research and Brand Metrics has some definitive, and revealing, findings. In this first episode on our series on attention, we welcome back Jon Waite, Global Managing Director of Mx, Havas Media Network London back to the podcast, alongside Tanwa Edu, Chief Strategy Office of Lumen Research to dive deep into these insights and explore what they mean for the future of attention.

On this special episode of The Meaningful Media Podcast, host Ben Downing is joined by Jamie Seltzer, Global EVP, CSA & Mx Analytics and Paul Bland, Chief Digital Officer, Havas Media Network London to explore the latest development in the cookie saga. Hot off of Google's recent decision to keep the third-party cookie, this episode explores the implications of this reversal for marketers, businesses, and the digital ad ecosystem. Jamie and Paul bring their expertise to the table, providing insights into the rationale behind Google's decision, the challenges faced in finding alternatives to third-party cookies, and strategies for leveraging first-party data and new identity resolution methods.🎧 We’d love to hear your thoughts about meaningful media. Drop us a line! podcast@havasmn.com.  Like, share, follow, and connect with us on our socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/havasmedianetwork/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/havas-media-network/