Out-of-home audience research body Route has named Robert Ray as its new chief executive, replacing managing director James Whitmore.

Time Out Media, publisher of freebie mag Time Out, has become the second magazine publisher in the UK to pool its digital ad inventory into The Ozone Project.

ISBA and PwC have finally released their long awaited report on the programmatic ad market. Here, Michaela Jefferson speaks to industry experts to hear their takes on the findings.

Three of adland’s key trade bodies – the Advertising Association, ISBA and the IPA – have come together to launch a new Inclusion Group made up of senior cross-industry figures.

The Ad Association and Warc released their latest adspend report on Thursday with its forecasts updated to account for the impact of the Covid-19 crisis – and the numbers, as you might imagine, are grim.

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 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.

Media and marketing consultancy Ebiquity has hired Nick Waters as its new group chief executive officer, replacing interim CEO Alan Newman.