Citing concerns about the power of major social networks, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a study into online platforms and the advertising market that supports them.

Phil Hall, chief commercial strategy officer of MediaCom, joins as co-managing director UK – to work alongside newly promoted co-MD Steve George.

Consequently, Nadine Young has been promoted to fill his shoes, but will continue to lead the P&G One team while taking on a broadened remit with additional responsibilities across Starcom.

Even excluding the technical feats of delivering gold-standard currencies – those things that underpin media planning and billions of pounds in trading – the politics that surround them can make your head spin.

Advertisers and agencies are seeking to fill a “gap in the market” that current JIC services have not been able to cover, raising questions over the future of audience measurement in the UK and beyond.

News UK, publisher of the Times and the Sun, has revealed how by better leveraging its data, it is transforming its business to become a “strategic partner” for its advertising clients.

The “reimagined” digital media supply chain features end-to-end fee transparency, direct connections between buyers and sellers and focuses on the availability of brand safe, fraud-free, viewable inventory, MediaMath said.

Consumers are becoming increasingly accustomed to viewing content without advertising – so what does this mean for ad-funded broadcasters? At Videoscape Europe, ITV and C4 explained their evolving propositions

The proliferation of digital out-of-home screens (DOOH) has helped drive weekly digital impacts to 1.1bn across the UK, according to new figures from Route.

JICREG True Local reveals for the first time net deduplicated audience data for local newsbrands – showing that digital provides a 98% uplift to monthly print audiences.