This week, Out and About goes on a Raid with DCM, visits the Freesat awards, and bumps into virtually all of the media community at The Lighthouse Company founder Kathleen Saxton's birthday party at Kettner's.

This week, Charles Courtier, worldwide chief executive for MEC, works on the agency's 10th anniversary celebrations.

The Government is preparing to review its media buying business, currently handled by WPP's M4C and expected to be worth in the region of £120m next year, as part of a shake-up in its approach to its marketing activities.

Zeebox, the app that combines real-time viewing with social networking, is one of the key emerging media technologies and will be a "big" hit in the media market, while data will play an increasingly important role in media executives' lives.

After 18 months leading the broadcaster's sales team, Nick Bampton, sales director at Channel 5, has revealed the company has embraced change and is confident about the future.