In her new role Laura Fenton will be responsible for driving and developing the day-to-day business and delivering best in class services for clients.

Creative agency Wieden+Kennedy London has appointed Ben Armistead as its new chief strategy officer.

Rajar’s Q2 2018 report has painted a healthy picture of a sector willing to invest and evolve – here are the key take-outs, with views from industry experts.

The latest findings from the AA/WARC show that radio has witnessed a huge surge in adspend, rising 12.5%, while radio’s digital ad formats have grown almost 40%. We asked those in the sector what’s behind the strong performance.

Digital radio remains in rude health and now represents half of all radio listening with a narrow 50.2% share, according to the latest Rajar results for the second quarter of 2018.

As Rajar releases its second quarter results for the radio market, Newsline presents the key findings showing station and network reach, share and average listening hours .

Bryan Scott joins from The Lighthouse Company where he served as marketing & innovation director for three years.

Kevin Bratley and Jade and Lee Trott will work across key accounts and report to OLIVER UK’s ECD, Rob Kavanagh.

Bosses from Mindshare, MediaCom, Kinetic, Local Planet and Merkle explain the significance of the latest findings.

In her new role, Kate Pickering will lead Gyro Manchester’s content team and oversee everything from content strategy through to content development and evaluation for clients.