Andrew Mortimer, Sky’s director of media, has this week moved from the marketing group to the newly-created role of director of client strategy for Sky Media.

News UK, publisher of The Times and The Sun, has promoted Dominic Carter to group chief commercial officer, a new role that will oversee all national advertising revenue for News UK and Wireless Group operations.

In this week’s podcast, host John Reynolds interviews Google executives Nishma Robb, marketing director, and Matt Bush, sales director.

A new study has found that nine out of ten marketers would be able to justify ‘slightly’ or ‘significantly’ more investment in programmatic if the measurement was improved.

In her new role Watt will help Quantcast’s advertiser clients grow by leveraging company’s live insights in order to reclaim control of their audience relationships.

Advertisers are not being deterred by poor viewability, brand safety or ad fraud, as figures show that businesses will spend 40.2% of their marketing budgets on online advertising in 2018, up from 37.6% in 2017.

ITV’s revenues declined -1.2% in February, according to the latest agency estimates. Year on year, total revenues declined by £1.28m to £104.7m.

Mackie joins RAPP from Rapier where he served as executive creative director.

The rise of ad-free video services might have re-tuned the brains of an entire generation to be less receptive to advertising in and around video content.

The Connies brings together the established UK Connected Consumer Awards from Mediatel and the internationally based Connected TV Awards from Videonet, now part of Mediatel Events.