After nearly five years, Pippa Glucklich, CEO Starcom UK, has decided to step down from her position and is leaving the Publicis-owned agency in December.

General Data Protection Regulation will offer canny brands the opportunity to differentiate themselves from less savvy competitors, according to lawyers and PR and marketing experts.

Out-of-home specialist JCDecaux announced its move towards automated trading and planning today, alongside a digital charter to ensure advertiser trust along the way.

Knight will depart at the end of October at which time the sponsorship and commercial content teams will report directly into Simon Daglish, deputy managing director, commercial on an interim basis.

In response to the shift in TV viewing behaviours across different devices and platforms, GroupM has today launched Finecast, a company delivering “digital-like precision and accountability to advertising on television.”

From the growth of connected TV advertising to the threat of Amazon and Facebook, bosses from the largest broadcasters in Europe exclusively share their views with Mediatel.

From gaining the creative agency buy-in for a programmatic era, to the lurking threat of brand safety ‘black holes’, senior experts from around the media industry had a lot to talk about at dmexco 2017. David Pidgeon reports.

Hewson joins from US adtech company Exponential where he led the UK sales operation and brings over 20 years’ experience in advertising, media and technology.

Three former Grey London bosses have launched a new agency this week, Uncommon Creative Studio, describing the business as an “ad agency for a time when the world hates ads”.

A host of digital formats – including social media in-feed ads, paid content, online video and native advertising – are helping to fuel the growth in global advertising, according to the latest adspend forecasts from Zenith.