Dentsu Aegis Network has warned that falling consumer trust in digital services could have “significant implications” for brands, as 60% of UK consumers no longer trust businesses to protect their privacy.

STRAT7 claims to have combined three inter-connected streams of expertise: customer data and intelligence through ResearchBods; advanced enrichment and analytics through LiFE; and strategic interpretation through Bonamy Finch.

The new name comes seven months after former CEO and founder, Mike Colling – after whom the agency was originally named – stepped down from his position.

Richard Shotton is leaving Manning Gottlieb OMD later this month in order to set up his own behavioural science consultancy, Astroten.

During Clifford’s tenure, Newsworks worked to define the effectiveness of newsbrands for advertisers with a number of high profile projects, including its award-winning Planning for Profit research.

The Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (JICWEBS) has appointed former IAB chief executive Guy Phillipson as its chair – replacing Richard Foan, who stepped down at the end of 2018.

The Global TV Group, founded in 2013, is an informal grouping of TV broadcasters, sales houses and trade bodies in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and Latin America. To date it consists of 14 industry associations.

According to the first of Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts this year, total global adspend is now expected to grow 4.7% in 2019 to reach $623bn, a 0.7 percentage point (pp) upgrade.

Newly-merged agency Wunderman Thompson’s UK leadership team has been unveiled today, with Pip Hulbert, the former CEO of Wunderman UK, taking on the chief executive position.

Further efforts from media owners to work collaboratively with one another may create more problems than it solves, PHD Media’s chief strategy officer has said this week.