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UK adspend rose 6.9% year-on-year in 2019, but the impact of Covid-19 means projections for 2020 and 2021 have been dramatically downgraded.

WPP is implementing further measures to control costs during the Covid-19 crisis, as the group’s latest financial update revealed a -3.3% drop in net sales during the first quarter of 2020.

Freebie newsbrand The Evening Standard has confirmed that Mike Soutar will be stepping down as chief executive officer from the end of May.

The Mediatel News columnist initially started on Stonewall’s board in April 2013 and was elected chair in April 2014. She will be replaced by Sheldon Mills.

The gender and ethnic diversity of adland’s agencies has made only “marginal” and “slow” improvements in the last year, according to the latest annual Agency Census from the IPA, while the overall employed base has shrunk.

Mediatel’s Steven Scaffardi speaks with key figures from the broadcast media world to discuss how they have dealt with the coronavirus crisis – and what comes next for commercial TV.

Senior television executives from ITV, Channel 4, Roku, Discovery and Pubmatic tell John Moulding about their strategies to limit damage and embrace innovation.

Virgin Media and Publicis Media Exchange give their views in this discussion chaired by Cadi Jones, commercial director at Beeswax.

Lockdown has delivered something of a paradox: TV viewing has risen sharply, yet the ad money that funds it is drying up. So what’s the solution?

Merkle, the performance marketing agency, has announced the promotion of Craig Dempster to global CEO, taking over from David Williams who has held the role for 32 years.