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White Ops and The Trade Desk are to pool their tech to scan ad impressions before they are purchased in a major new effort to cut out ad fraud.

Following a tough month in June, July was also witness to some declines in TV revenues, although not quite as severe.

Condé Nast Britain, the publisher of Vanity Fair, Wired and Vogue, has appointed Sabine Vandenbroucke to the newly created role of chief operating officer.

The media group, which has interests in dozens of TV and radio stations in ten countries, will now own 100 per cent of the growing adtech business.

Cedric Rouse joins from OOH media owner Admedia, where he has spent the last seven years building their sales operations – most recently as head of agency sales.

The latest ABC regional newspaper results, covering the January – June 2017 period, reveal a consistently static picture for newspaper groups.

101 brings in clients including BBC, Heineken, Scottish Widows, Subaru and Zoopla.

Reporting to Zenith’s global brand president Vittorio Bonori, Shah will join the network in September as managing director, UK Hub, where he will focus on driving collaboration for global, regional and local clients.

WPP revised its sales growth down from forecasts of 2% to just 0-1%, citing particular pressure in the FMCG or packaged goods sector and weak trading in America.