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Benjamin Condit takes over the responsibility of Mindshare China CEO and Linda Lin takes over the responsibility of Executive Chair of Greater China. Both appointments are effective immediately.

SportsTribal TV the new free, ad-supported streaming TV service (FAST) specializing 100% in sports-themed content has been launched. 

Global media and entertainment company ViacomCBS has launched Paramount+, the highly anticipated streaming service with an unparalleled content offering that bundles live sports, breaking news, and an expansive collection of exclusive new originals.

ViacomCBS is directly looking for a Programming Coordinator Nick jr.

Short-video leaders Douyin and Kuaishou have been expanding their social commerce operations, not just to sell products, but to provide services and other forms of content as well.

ViacomCBS is directly looking for a Manager Bi & Research EMEAA (Temporary) 

ViacomCBS is directly looking for a Content Operator Multiplatform Operations

Roku, Inc. and Nielsen have announced a strategic alliance between the two companies that will help shape the future of media measurement and TV advertising in a streaming-first market.

As the latest addition to Sony’s Cinema Line, the FX3 delivers a cinematic look and professional operability and reliability all in one device.

In the last few years, the YouTube algorithm has gone through an enormous change. Viral content is no longer the go-to format for new creators.

As news consumption trends evolve and consumers get exposed to an array of platforms that offering both free and premium content, debate has been varied on which model appeals most to consumers.

WPP has announced that Wunderman Thompson has acquired NN4M, a mobile commerce partner for global brands.

 Founding members Adobe, Arm, BBC, Intel, Microsoft and Truepic seek to establish a standardized provenance solution with the goal of combating misleading content.

Essence has announced the expansion of its best-in-class data and technology consulting services to the German marketplace.

In response to the growing demand for high-quality camera equipment to meet the evolving requirements of today’s content creators, Canon Europe has announced the EOS M50 Mark II, the successor to the award-winning EOS M50.

Dutch startup Presscloud allows companies to handle public relations without the need for an agency by training users on the ABCs of PR and connecting them to a database of journalists and an online newsroom.

Global media and entertainment company ViacomCBS has updated investors on its differentiated streaming strategy, which leverages the company’s strong product offerings across free, premium and pay segments.

Because of the global lockdown, online activity has skyrocketed. Marketing leaders predict that many more companies will invest in branded content in 2021.

SpotX, the global video advertising platform, today announced a new strategic partnership with Redbox to serve as a strategic supply-side platform (SSP) to power the video monetization of Redbox’s free live TV and AVOD content.

Havas Media Group has renewed an agreement with GBfoods and Affinity with a significant international presence in more than 10 markets, after a media review for Europe launched last May.

Willem-Albert Bol has been appointed as the new CEO of Abovo Maxlead effective April after being with DPG Media for seven years.

VICE Distribution, the global distribution division of VICE Media Group, has revealed its first slate of programming for Spring following the launch of the business last year.

Consumers are more frequently and collectively demanding brands drive purpose and positive change, leaving nobody safe from call-out culture and backlash for less ethical decisions.

IPG Mediabrands has released its latest Media Responsibility Index, a quantitative report that strives to raise industry standards around brand safety and media responsibility in advertising.

Launched in 2019, CAN is a UK-based voluntary coalition of over 70 organisations, which share a vision to ensure industry ethics catch up with the technology of modern advertising.

Last year at the height of COVID-19 analysts predicted that digital audio would record a dip in user engagement and the amount of time listeners would spend on the medium.

DIMPACT, the pioneering initiative to help the digital media industry map and manage its carbon impacts, is moving beyond proof of concept.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, and the German Bundesliga, Germany’s top national football league, have announced three new Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS to give fans deeper insights into action on the pitch.

TV viewership in the United States declined by roughly 10 million, and 2020 ended up with 20 million fewer adults watching TV. This is according to new data from eMarketer.

UK independent factual production company Icon Films has announced a joint commission from VICE TV and VICE World News to produce ‘Unknown Amazon with Pedro Andrade’, a new documentary series that explores the unique diversity of Amazonia and the people who live there.

Hearst UK, the premium content and experience business, has announced the appointment of Richie Booker to the role of Diversity & Belonging Lead.

The acquisition is in line with WPP’s objectives outlined in its December 2020 Capital Markets Day to expand its presence in the faster growing areas of experience, commerce and technology.

DPAA, the global trade marketing association connecting out-of-home (OOH) media with the advertising community while moving OOH to digital, has announced that Iván Markman, Chief Business Officer at Verizon Media, and Jean-Christophe (JC) Conti, CEO of VIOOH, have joined the DPAA’s Board of Directors. 

Nielsen and Marquee Broadcasting Group, a privately held broadcasting company that owns several television stations, have announced a multi-year agreement whereby Nielsen will provide local TV measurement services for all broadcast stations.

MeMo² is directly looking for a Python Data Analyst (Groningen - part time)

Kantar has announced its migration to Ads Data Hub, Google’s cloud-based solution that enables customised analysis of YouTube ad campaigns while protecting user privacy.

Norwegian fashion house Holzweiler has announced it is collaborating with Sony Europe to create digital content for its brand and retail experiences.

WPP and TikTok, a global destination for short-form mobile video, have announced an innovative global partnership to enable WPP agencies and clients to tap into the culture-shaping impact and reach of the platform.

GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, has announced the launch of the industry’s first tool to operationalize data ethics.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, US adults spent 1 hour more per day on digital activities (across all devices) than they did in 2019 according to eMarketer’s latest time spent forecast from Insider Intelligence.

The European Investment Fund (EIF) has signed a guarantee agreement with Danish alternative finance provider REinvent Finance.

WPP has been named in the 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for the third consecutive year. The Index recognizes companies committed to advancing gender equality in the workplace through policy development, representation and transparency.

Publicis Groupe has announced the appointment of Anna Chitty as Chief Executive Officer of Starcom China.

GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, has announced that five of its EMEA markets have been recognized by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer 2021.

Google has announced that BMG has selected Google Cloud to build a scalable, global infrastructure as it grows its digital music business.

MeMo² has launched the innovative Crossmedia Analytics Platform THX in Belgium. This, after a successful introduction on the Dutch market with 1300 measured campaigns in 2020.

Nielsen has announced that it is launching its Theatrical Video On-Demand (TVOD) measurement service as a way to capture viewing to movie releases that are directly available to consumers to rent or purchase on demand.

Global data and measurement-driven media agency Essence has announced the introduction of its Essence Media Health Check service, developed to help marketers achieve effective business outcomes from their digital media campaigns by delivering measurable performance improvements over current baselines.

SpotX, the global video advertising platform, has announced it is integrating the Unified ID 2.0 solution, an open source and interoperable ID framework designed to improve relevant advertising.

Generating quality leads and attracting increased web traffic are top priorities for marketers in 2021 at 79 per cent and 75 per cent respectively according to the State of Content Marketing report by SEMRUSH

From the point of view of Havas Media Group, e-commerce is to be seen as a holistic challenge. The agency is consequently bundling its expertise in the areas of DTC, marketplaces and digital drive to retail on a global level in the Havas Market unit. 

S4 Capital plc, the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising and marketing services company, has announced that that Staud Studios, a high-end creative production studio specializing in the Automotive industry, is merging with MediaMonks, S4Capital’s Content practice.

Kantar, the world’s data, insights and consulting company, is announcing a significant improvement to the TV Audience Measurement (TAM) service.

Rob, who is currently Global Creative Chairman of McCann Worldgroup, will join WPP in May, reporting to CEO Mark Read.

Hearst UK, the premium content and experience business, has announced the launch of its PositivityFest, a day-long event offering a number of mood-boosting activities for its valued commercial partners.

Synamedia, an independent video software provider, announced its security and watermarking solutions are now integrated with Akamai.

Nielsen has announced that Caroline Clarke will join the company as Senior Vice President of Editorial Content Strategy, effective immediately.

Sony has announced the expansion of its 360 Reality Audio services and product offerings, including adding new video streaming capabilities and content creation tools.

rlaxx TV, the new European Advertising-Based Video-on-Demand (AVoD) service, is now also available in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Austria on Amazon's Fire TV devices and Android TV.

Live streaming brought China $6 Billion USD in sales within one day and while some companies are still not sure whether they should give it a try, others are increasing their revenue by millions in the blink of an eye.

Advertising, media, marketing, entertainment, and communication firm InterMedia Group of Companies has announced the return of Chris Brombach to InterMedia, to the role of Senior Vice President Strategy and Planning.

Deluxe, the global provider of digital and cloud based solutions to the world's leading content production studios and distributors, announced its acquisition of UK-based Sundog Media Toolkit (Sundog).

Channel 4 has announced that it has appointed Ally Castle as its new Creative Diversity and Disability Lead.

Nielsen has announced a multi-year renewal agreement with TEGNA Inc. , a news platform with 64 stations in 51 markets.

Hearst UK’s wellness brands secure globally recognized fitness personalities, celebrities, mental health experts and chefs for ultimate wellness events.

Integrated creative, technology and media agency Decoded Advertising has joined S4 Capital with the new outfit now keen to integrate the unitary offering with new efficiency.

Nielsen and KTSF have announced an agreement under which Nielsen will provide a comprehensive suite of measurement services.

Samsung Electronics has announced that Samsung TV Plus,1 Samsung’s free Smart TV video service, which delivers instant access to news, sports, entertainment and more, has now expanded to 12 countries and 742 channels worldwide.

Nielsen has announced its plans to launch a single, cross-media solution to drive more comparable and comprehensive metrics across platforms.

YouTube has always been an integral part of the music business. However, the platform is taking the music-streaming war to the next level.

Media owners’ advertising revenues decreased from $594 billion in 2019 to $569 billion in 2020 according to the latest MAGNA study of global advertising market trends.

VICE Media Group has announced the continuation of its partnership with Australian broadcaster, SBS, with a renewed content deal for its SBS Viceland TV channel, and SBS digital platforms.

Starcom Australia has announced its new ‘People Powered Growth’ positioning and strengthened agency structure.

Amazon and Global Optimism have announced that 13 new signatories have joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040.

Hearst has announced the election of four new directors to the corporation’s board.

Telenet/SBS, Mediahuis, Proximus/Skynet and Pebble Media are joining forces and are together creating a national sales house.

Essence has announced that it has been selected as the integrated media agency for personal care brand Mamaearth in India.

GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, has announced that Adam Gerhart has been named Mindshare Global CEO, effective January 2021.

Six digital-out-of-home (DOOH) technology platforms have announced that they are coming together to bring standardization to digital-out-of-home venue (DOOH) data and help drive programmatic DOOH forward.

MediaCom has appointed Charlotte Frijns as the agency’s new Global Chief Financial Officer, effective 1st January 2021, replacing Christine Fang who is returning to China for personal reasons.

Mike Shehan, co-founder and CEO at SpotX SpotX, the global video advertising platform, has announced the release of its “2021 Global Video Advertising Trends” report.

Realife Tech has announced a three-year partnership with Outernet, a high capacity immersive media space under development in the heart of London's West End.

Mediahuis has received the approval of the Dutch competition authority Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM) for the acquisition of NDC mediagroep.

Hearst Magazines has named Matt Sanchez president of CDS Global, a leading omnichannel relationship management platform for consumer-first businesses.

Hearst UK, the premium content and experience business, has partnered with health technology company, Philips, to launch its ‘Power of Positivity’ campaign.

Visual Data Media Services, an entertainment services company serving studios and distributors globally with end-to-end content management and digital media supply chain solutions, has partnered with Endeavour Capital, a mid-market investment firm.

Cloud-gaming specialist Blacknut becomes the first company to add support for Google's plug-and-play Chromecast streaming device.

YouTube UK has become the official sponsor of British Vogue’s Forces for Change initiative, supporting creativity with the launch of Vogue Visionaries.

WPP has submitted a proposal to the Board of WPP AUNZ Limited to pursue an acquisition of the remaining shares in WPP AUNZ.

As part of Mondelēz International’s journey to create a transformative end-to-end customer experience, the company has expanded its relationship with Publicis Groupe to include all production duties across Europe.

EyeEm has partnered with Geometry, WPP’s end-to-end Creative Commerce agency, to support and empower the global creative industry adversely affected by the global Covid-19 pandemic to launch #UpForCollab.

L’Oréal Paris and VIRTUE, the creative agency born from VICE, have announced the global launch of an interactive digital-only make-up experience that brings a new inventiveness to experimenting with make-up looks, all in the virtual reality space.

Media and marketing solutions company IPG Mediabrands has announced the agency network is expanding its creative content practice with the launch of Mediabrands Content Studio (MBCS) globally across 12 markets.

blowUP media is expanding its Digital Out of Home network The Collective® with high-quality digital screens in the recently renewed city centre of Tilburg.

Influencer marketing has proved to be a worthy investment for brands: in a recent Twitter survey, 49% of responders said they rely on influencer recommendations when making purchases.

Debi Chirichella has been named president of Hearst Magazines. The announcement was made by Hearst President and CEO Steven R. Swartz. The appointment is effective immediately.

WPP’s AKQA and Grey are uniting to form a new network model, AKQA Group.

Hearst UK, the premium content and experience business, has announced one of its consumer lifestyle brands, Prima, is increasing its print magazine edition from 12 to 13 issues a year, starting in 2021.

Nielsen says it has added addressable measurement to its National TV currency. 

Spotify Technology, the global audio streaming subscription service, has announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Megaphone.

Domestic appliances Miele company has consolidated its Australia and New Zealand media account into Starcom following a competitive pitch with a number of undisclosed agencies.

GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, has announced that Kieley Taylor and Amanda Grant have been elevated to the roles of global head of partnerships and global head of social, respectively.

Carlton Charles, who currently serves as vice president and treasurer at Hearst, has been named senior vice president, treasury and risk management.

VICE Media Group has announced the launch of Source Material, an innovative and gripping multimedia project from VICE World News.

The Content Exchange is a Dutch startup that targets editors, publishers and freelancers by offering them a content market place where they can do business with each other directly. The startup’s founder Joris van Lierop explains.

Startup Weekly talks with Kinga Incze, founder of Mediaspace.global, a new, independent social platform for media, marketing, tech, law, innovation and regulation company based in London, UK.

The World Media Group has announced the appointment of Gordana Buccisano, EVP Global Client Transformation, Havas Media Group, as Non-Executive Chair of the World Media Group.

Sainsbury’s has revealed it will be appointing media agency ‘Essence’ to help advance its digital marketing transformation.

Worldwide media, CXM and creative communications company, dentsu international, has committed to become a Net Zero emissions business by 2030.

Walgreens Boots Alliance has selected WPP as its global marketing and communications agency.

RTL Group today announced it has completed the sale of its entire shareholding in Vancouver-based BroadbandTV to BBTV Holdings Inc., effective 28 October 2020, for €102 million.

The European Publishers Council (EPC) has welcomed the Italian Competition Authority’s investigation against Google for an alleged abuse of dominant position.

Targetspot, an international specialist in digital audio solutions, announces the appointment of Brian Benedik, a recognized leader in the digital audio monetization space, as Strategic Advisor.

Virgin Media has collaborated with Google Nest to trial a range of Smart Home products that can be easily added to customers’ existing packages.

ARD and ZDF integrated the range of funk, the joint content network, into their media libraries. Both broadcasters are thus continuing the mutual networking of their non-linear offers.

The Netherland's Breda region will switch from analogue to fully digital cable television in the night of Monday 23 November to Tuesday 24 November.

FOX News Media’s international streaming platform FOX News International has expanded its distribution across Europe.

Hearst UK, a UK premium publisher, has appointed Lydia Slater as the new Editor-in-Chief of Harper’s Bazaar UK, overseeing its print, digital and experiential offering.

GroupM Australia Chief Investment Officer Nicola Lewis has been promoted to Global Chief Growth Officer of Finecast, GroupM’s fast-growing Addressable TV business.

SBS will represent BBC First and manage advertising sales on the channel from November 1. This partnership will allow advertisers to connect with the BBC First audience in Belgium for the first time.

Samsung Electronics, the world player in advanced memory technology, has unveiled the PRO Plus and EVO Plus, its two new lines of SD cards featuring  speeds and improved durability.

eMarketer, in collaboration with Starcom Worldwide and GlobalWebIndex (GWI), has published its annual “Global Media Intelligence (GMI) Report” on key digital trends worldwide.

Vodafone TV will include Acorn TV , AMC Networks' streaming service specializing in British series and series from other English-speaking countries, on November 3 exclusively in its content offering.

The Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) has fined UPC with CHF 30 million for abusing Ice Hockey broadcasting rights.

Nielsen has announced integration with Adsquare, enabling European marketers to intelligently target audiences for out-of-home media buying.

E.ON, the international energy company has appointed a Publicis Groupe Power of One solution led by Starcom as its Media partner across eight major European markets.

Havas Media Group has announced that they have become a member of the Conscious Advertising Network (CAN).

MediaMonks has been awarded an Epic MegaGrant to explore the next frontier in automated tabletop and production using Epic’s Unreal Engine, the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool.

Instagram has announced an expansion of its in-app shopping, with a global roll out of its Instagram Shopping service across IGTV and a soon to start test of shopping within its recently launched short form video platform Reels.

Integral Ad Science (IAS), a digital ad verification company, has released its Media Quality Report (MQR), which found there has been an improvement in most major digital media quality indicators.

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MediaCom has been named as Uber’s global media agency of record. The agency will expand its remit into every operational market for Uber across North America, Latin America, EMEA and Asia.

Nielsen has announced that it is augmenting the digital capabilities of Nielsen Ad Intel, a market advertising intelligence solution.

VICE Media Group CEO Nancy Dubuc has announced that the company has appointed veteran marketing, brand and communications leader Nadja Bellan-White to its executive leadership team.

WPP has appointed Tom Ilube CBE to its Board as an independent Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.

L’Oréal owned beauty and fragrance house Giorgio Armani has launched a multi-million pound campaign across the UK and Ireland for ‘My Way’, its new sustainably sourced fragrance.

Google, Condé Nast Germany and media agencies Essence and OMD Hamburg, have released a cross-media content cooperation with talents such as musician and actress to make Chromebooks more widely known within the German market.

Havas Media Group, part of the Havas Group, has picked FreeWheel’s Strata platform to power its media buying and management business in the U.K. and France.

Mindshare, the agency network that is part of WPP, has released the eighth wave of its ‘New Normal’ COVID-19 tracker - a 1,000 person per market survey across 10 global markets.

Europa+ announced the launch of its new subscription streaming video service that will, for the first time, bring Latin American and Caribbean audiences the latest and most popular television programming.

Hearst Magazines has announced the launch of Premium Print, a strategic initiative that includes a multimillion-dollar investment across its portfolio of more than 25 brands to further strengthen its position in the marketplace.

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in partnership with marketers and agencies through the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, GARM, have agreed to adopt a common set of definitions for hate speech and other harmful content.

Verizon Media has announced a series of new Media Platform enhancements designed to evolve the live streaming experience.

Global video advertising platform SpotX has announced new programmatic solutions that will allow TV programmers to unlock the full value of linear addressable television for the first time.

Microsoft has announced plans to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, one of the largest, privately held game developers and publishers in the world.

Nielsen has announced that Hearst Television has selected Nielsen Marketing Cloud to power access to premium audiences through its Hearst Anyscreen product.

Verizon Media and Broadsign have announced an extended partnership to directly integrate Verizon Media’s programmatic demand-side-platform (DSP) with the Broadsign Reach programmatic DOOH supply-side-platform.

Channel 4 has revealed an exclusive partnership with Estée Lauder and media agency MG OMD, representing the first campaign of its kind with a broadcaster for the luxury brand.

German-based service provider Admitad has launched Admitad Affiliate Marketplace, an aggregator of affiliate programs from multiple networks.

Hivestack, a global programmatic digital Out of Home (DOOH) ad tech company, has announced a new partnership with Clear Channel UK, part of Clear Channel Outdoor, one of the global leaders in Out of Home.

Rainshine Entertainment and Five Fifty Five announced a strategic joint venture, where the two companies will work together to develop, produce, and distribute extraordinary content.

Jeff Winton Associates announced expansion into additional global markets through a new partnership with UK-based marketing communications firm Onyx Health.

Nielsen has announced it is launching Nielsen Compass, a powerful, world leading database that leverages the company’s global scale to establish syndicated normative standards for campaign outcomes measurement.

VMLY&R has announced that it will launch a new global healthcare agency, VMLY&Rx, to service specialty Rx pharmaceutical companies.

World Federation of Advertisers has unveiled an advertiser-centric Framework for cross-media measurement – the “holy grail” for marketers.

SEMrush, an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform, has further expanded its ecosystem with the acquisition of a 100% stake in Poland's public relations SaaS startup Prowly.com.

Publicis Media has announced the promotion of Nadine Young to the role of CEO, Starcom UK, reporting to Sue Frogley, CEO, Publicis Media UK.

Disney+, the highly anticipated streaming service from The Walt Disney Company, has launched in Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Amazon Music has launched podcasts in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan, across all tiers of service at no additional cost.

Hearst UK, the premium content and experience business, has announced the launch of a talent scholarship sponsored by flatshare site SpareRoom.

Channel 4 has announced that 4Creative’s Eoin McLaughlin has been promoted to the newly created role of Deputy Executive Creative Director and the appointment of award-winning creative Lydia Raghavan to Creative Director.

World’s largest independent content creation Group for television and multimedia platforms Banijay has announced the appointment of Lars Blomgren as Head of Scripted, EMEA.

Nielsen and Translation Enterprises are teaming up to create an offering to help brands activate, plan and measure what resonates in popular culture.

Verizon Media has announced the launch of OTT Smart Auction, a header bidding-like solution for OTT publishers.

VICE Distribution, the newly created distribution and licensing group of VICE Media Group (VMG), has signed a new premium content deal with streaming platform Hulu, for 100 hours of original VICE TV content.

Programmatic trading channels for WFA Members account for more than two fifths of global digital media investment, up from 16 per cent in 2016.

World’s largest kiwifruit marketer Zespri International Limited has selected an interdisciplinary team of WPP agencies as its global Agency of Record (AOR) to deliver its brand proposition.

Media and entertainment company for young women Refinery29 has announced that digital pioneer and thought leader Simone Oliver will join as Global Editor-in-Chief, starting September 30, 2020.

Dare.Win, an award-winning Paris-based digital creative agency has entered into a merger with MediaMonks, S 4Capital’s Content practice.

Curio, the premium audio platform with a curated library of expert journalism, closed a $9 million Series A round led by Earlybird. Draper Esprit, Cherry Ventures, and Horizons Ventures also took part in the investment.