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.

Citing a “challenging outlook” the publisher wrote down the value of its 200-plus regional titles by £150m.

Mark Howley assumes the newly created role of chief operating officer, Publicis Media UK, while Natalie Cummins takes on the top job at Zenith UK.

Love Island and the World Cup helped secure a 22.9% surge in revenues for ITV in June. Total revenues reached almost £117m last month – a boost of £21.7m on the previous year.

A new report from Meetrics has revealed that viewability rates for display campaigns in the UK in Q2 2018 decreased by -1% from Q1 to 58%, which is lower than the international rate of 61%.

In his new role, Julian Carter will be responsible for leading and sustaining the company’s profitable revenue growth.

Alibaba, Tencent and China Media Capital Holdings are reportedly in talks to buy a stake in the Chinese operations of WPP.