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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 Unilever CMO has made admirable public promises to clean-up parts of adland – but remains strangely tight-lipped about any progress, writes Dominic Mills.

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.

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.

An ad-free streaming service co-funded by ITV isn’t going to do advertisers any favours, writes Dominic Mills. Plus: how to cut through the brand purpose white noise.

In this week’s Media and Marketing podcast, host John Reynolds interviews the newly-appointed CEO of Wunderman Thompson Mel Edwards. Plus: Outsmart and Total Media on the Capital’s junk food ban.

Sizmek, the buy-side advertising platform, has made three executive appointments this week – including Paul Wright who joins as general manager with full oversight of the EMEA regions.

Jacob has over 30 years’ experience of founding, building and running media and advertising businesses, and was previously CEO of Publicis Media, EMEA.