Joe tell us:

-The symptoms he had which prompted him to contact a doctor.

-The experience of being in intensive care with those diagnosed with the virus.

-How some patients behaved badly to NHS staff.

-What he would have done differently.

- How it has impacted his family life.

-The impact coronavirus has had on his ad tech business.

In this week's Media & Marketing podcast, we chat to Justin Byam Shaw, Director at the London Evening Standard and the Independent.

Byam Shaw talks about:

-The Evening Standard halving its losses in 2020 to around £5m and expecting to turn a profit in 2021.

- That he expects George Osborne to stay as editor.

- Some radical plans at the Evening Standard and why Mike Soutar has been drafted in as CEO.

-Why a mysterious Saudi investor has acquired stakes in the Standard and the Independent.

-Evgeny Lebedev and his ownership of the Standard.

- The possible sale of the Telegraph titles.

-Why the Independent is thriving and beating Buzzfeed at social.

-And getting a rude email from Richard Desmond.

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Camilla Kemp and Ben Golik discuss:

-The merger between M&C Saatchi and Lida.

-How it will benefit clients.

-Staff reaction to the merger.

-Moving to new offices.

-Media's outdated view of the agency.

-The creative output of the agency.

-The accounting scandal and impact on agency.

In this week's Media & Marketing podcast, we are joined by Ian Dowds, CEO of audience measurement company UKOM; Sheri Reefer, Head of Digital Insights, Reach, the newspaper publisher and Amanda Wigginton, Group Customer Strategy Director at TI Media, the magazine publisher to discuss the impact of news brands on the General Election; audience measurement; industry conferences; PAMCo data and much more.

The trio discuss-

If they will be persuaded by a newspaper endorsement in the election.

If news brands are more important than other media in influencing votes.

Facebook and Twitter's contrasting rules on political advertising.

UKOM's suppler change contract.

TV, video trends.

Conferences.

PAMCo data.

In this week's Media & Marketing podcast, we are joined by a trio of media executives who have launched start-ups.

Dino Myers-Lamptey has launched a strategy agency called The Barber Shop; Peter Thomson is co-founder of press agency The Press Business and Simon Davis has launched the media agency Walk-In Media.

In the first interview, Myers-Lamptey and Thomson discuss their relative start-ups; the thinking behind them; why they think they will be successful; and the risk involved in launching a start-up.

Later, Simon Davis, for former CEO of Publicis-backed agency Blue 449, discusses why he left Blue 449 and chose to launch a start-up.

In this week's Media & Marketing podcast, we are joined by John O'keeffe, WPP's worldwide creative director & Laura Jordan Bambach, chief creative officer, Mr President.

The pair discuss-

-Favourite and most disappointing ads of the year to date.

-Kia's Robert De Niro ad.

-Woke-washing brands.

-Broaching controversial subjects in ads.

-Closer working relations between media and creative.

-WPP's Mark Read criticism of WPP's creative agencies.

-An update on the mergers of WPP's creative agencies.

-Changes they would like to see at creative agencies.

-Martin Sorrell.

In this week's M&M podcast, media grandee Claire Enders and Advertising Association CEO Stephen Woodford discuss

-The death of Lord Bell and his legacy.

-BBC launching a voice assistant.

-Row over funding BBC licence fee for over 75s.

-The merry-go-round of culture secretaries.

-The rise in digital advertising and what it means for the industry.

-Big tech and whether they should be broken up.

-Objectionable content.

-The unsexy world of ad tech

In this week's podcast, Rehab CEO Rob Bennett & BGV executive Nelly Lavielle discuss how technology can be used for good causes.

-Rob tells us about Rehab winning a tech for good award at Cannes Lions.

-They both discuss if tech for good is being drowned out by all the bad press companies like Facebook and Google have been getting.

They also discuss:

-If the likes of Amazon, Apple and Facebook want to do good.

-What the latest tech for good innovations are?

-What they would like to see change about the tech for good industry?

In this week's Media & Marketing podcast, we are joined by Jamie Bolding,

founder and CEO, Jungle Creations; Tim Hyde, CEO, TWH Media; Cathy White, founder, CEW Communcations.

The trio are all under 30 and all run their own companies.

They talk about:

-The controversy surrounding Nigel Farage appearing on the front page of an advertising magazine.

-If brands can learn from Farage?

-If the advertising industry is too insular looking?

-What it takes to run your own company under the age of 30?

-If they would ever work for anyone else?

-What they plan to do in ten years time?

-If Facebook and Google will be dominant in the future?

In this week's Media & Marketing podcast, we are joined by Norm Johnston, CEO, Unruly; Isabel Massey, group digital director, Diageo, and Stephan Loerke, CEO, The World Federation of Advertisers.

The three discuss the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.

In particular they discuss-

-Who is involved in the alliance.

-Why it is so important Google, Facebook and Twitter are on board.

-What powers this alliance will have.

-How it is hoped it will lead to a step change in how the platforms police objectionable content.

-How they will gauge if it has been a success.