ITV has named Amobee’s Rhys McLachlan as its new director of advanced advertising, a leading role in the development of the broadcaster’s commercial digital strategy.

Study conducted with GroupM, OMG and Publicis assessed the impact of using TAG channels across the world – revealing a huge decline in ad fraud compared with industry norms.

Featuring: John Rankin, RANKIN // Jay Richards, DivInc // Amy China Wire, Teads // Aaron Simpson, Kindred // Victoria Emes, content creator // Vanessa Goff-Yo, Bidstack // Emma Martell, Virgin Trains.

Lythe will lead the agency’s investment team in the UK, overseeing all of Spark Foundry’s media investments, trading activities and commercial partnerships.

James White, formerly ESI Media’s chief trading officer, has been named as the new commercial director of the publisher’s newsbrand the Evening Standard, a newly created role.

Demet İkiler has been appointed EMEA CEO of GroupM, WPP’s media investment wing, after seven years as WPP country manager and GroupM CEO in Turkey.

Media trading company Astus UK has promoted Matthew Herbert to commercial director.

For the third consecutive month, the daily national newspaper market has remained fairly steady – and in January was overall up 0.9% month-on-month.

Thinkbox, MediaCom, Reach Solutions and Wavemaker were among the winners of the sixth annual awards from Mediatel.

Influencer marketing service TAKUMI has named Mary Keane-Dawson as its new group CEO, taking over from Adam Williams.