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Simpson Carpenter hires for pharma division

Research and insights consultancy Simpson Carpenter has appointed Weiwei Yang as senior research manager in its pharmaceutical division.

WPP's Xaxis names Chinese MD

Programmatic media and technology platform Xaxis has appointed Mickey Zhang as managing director for China.

Agency employment and diversity increases

Black and minority ethnic (BAME) employees in media, advertising and marketing communications agencies now account for 13% of the total […]

Price isn't factor for majority of European grocery shoppers

Despite the popularity of discount grocers such as Lidl and Aldi, shoppers buying FMCG in Europe are largely influenced by […]

Facebook still dominates social networking but teen frequency falling

Facebook remains the number one global network but half of members in the UK and US are using it less […]

Twitter defends data collection

Twitter has clarified its data collection strategy following reports that it is tailoring content according to mobile app data.