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Cindy Rose OBE is to join the board of WPP as a non-executive director as the holding company seeks to boost its tech credentials.

The station, set to launch on April 5, will form part of the Hits Radio Network alongside Hits Radio and Greatest Hits Radio.

The former head of MediaCom Beyond Advertising (MBA), Tom Curtis, has been promoted to executive creative director, a role newly-created to drive creative-first campaigns for clients.

The UK’s commercial broadcasters say they are even willing to pitch together for clients as bosses at Channel 4, ITV and Sky build resources to get senior sales and strategy staff into client boardrooms.

“Piecemeal and inadequate” responses to the failings of online platforms has today seen a House of Lords committee call for new regulatory oversight.

Michaela Jefferson meets the young coders behind Permutive – the start-up publishers are now queuing up to work with.

To mark IWD 2019, Mediatel spoke with women – all at different stages of their careers – to see how much progress has been made towards a gender balanced media and advertising industry, and how much work remains to be done.

The drinks giant has a team of experts to help brand managers make the most of media buying and creative agencies. This is not in-housing, but upskilling, and partners should welcome it, the company told Future of Brands Sydney.

Research by the beauty products giant shows that in-store experiences have a bigger influence on customer journeys than any media – so it has updated them with state-of-the-art tech.

Advertisers should be more “ruthless” in choosing which media platforms they support, according to the chair of Thinkbox, in another public spat between the highly regulated TV industry and the scandal-prone online world.