Pearson waves goodbye after almost 60 years – but deal excludes the FT group’s 50% stake in the Economist and its London headquarters.
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Block, who has spent the last seven years as ITV’s controller of commercial digital products, will be responsible for leading “product evangelism” in Europe.
McRae, who joined Mindshare in 2004 to lead the global Unilever account, replaces former CEO Mark Creighton, who is set to leave for Dentsu Aegis Network.
Reporting into Clays is a newly created senior management board comprising of managing partners across strategy, digital, client service, new business & marketing, investment, finance and the people team.
Responding to the government’s Green Paper, the BBC Trust has said it wants improved protections for the BBC’s independence to provide more time between fixed date general elections and the end of the next charter.
As part of the deal, Sky Sports has entered into an exclusive partnership with News UK that will see clips also being made available across The Sunday Times, The Times and The Sun digital services.
New research shows that 18-34 year olds access newsbrands constantly during the day, often in bite-sized forms and through various channels.
An ad is considered viewable if 50% of it is in view for at least 1 second, according to the IAB and Media Ratings Council, with UK viewability falling 7% year on year.
A little over 6 million viewers tuned in at 7:30pm to see Phil Mitchell confront the Beale’s about their highly dubious behaviour, only for mini-Norman Bates, Bobby, to come in with a classic golf club sneak attack.
Weir was previously fashion features director at Sunday Times Style and has worked at Drapers and Elleuk.com.
