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.

As the latest ABC circulation figures are released for the consumer magazine market, Mediatel News presents its round-up of the results.

Private Eye, The Economist and the Week Junior all post healthy results, according to the latest consumer magazine ABC results.

Conde Nast’s Wired fared the best of any title in the men’s lifestyle category in terms of maintaining its circulation, holding steady at 50,000 copies.