In brief: The unit will bring together the specialist retail, direct-to-consumer, and social commerce functions that exist across GroupM.

In brief: The Guardian’s sales director Guy Edmunds has left the publisher after 20 years.

More than half of Clubhouse’s staff have been made redundant as the founders believe they must become nimbler to adapt the product to post-pandemic society.

Four members of the Future 100 Club Class of 2022 implored industry leaders pushed for stronger inclusivity and wellbeing policies. 

The charity is launching new training solutions and expanding its commercial offer to address mounting mental wellness challenges.

Speaking at The Future of Brands 2023 conference, the BBH founder decried the state of British brands and downplayed the effects of media fragmentation on the ability to cut through.

The spring survey seeks to measure how digital agencies and specialists perceive the various media owners they work with.

The move comes within weeks of the AOP published an open letter decrying “unscrupulous” tech vendors of stealing publishers’ IP through illegal data scraping practices.

Main media marketing recorded its strongest expansion in spending in over a year, even as advertisers worry over how the cost-of-living crisis will impact bottom lines.

The Writer’s Guild of America’s strike is likely to negatively effect global streaming companies, which are already losing money.