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Toluna has found a CEO to step into the substantial shoes of founder Frédéric Charles Petit: Amy Fenton joins from MarketCast, where she was also CEO, and brings experience from senior roles at Kantar, Ipsos, and a quarter of a century at Nielsen.
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Consulting and business services behemoth Accenture has acquired Sagacity, a UK-based data and customer intelligence firm, and will integrate it with the Song division. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Montevideo, Uruguay-based Scanntech has raised $180m in Series F financing, with which to broaden its product suite, invest in analytics and AI capabilities, and expand across sectors and to new markets in Latin America. The firm provides a retail intelligence, analytics and marketing services platform.
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In the US, the Insights Association (IA) has permanently barred four individuals from membership after they pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud over a decade from 2014. Separately, the IA reports that a bill potentially damaging insight professionals in California has been stopped.
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Qualitative research platform Bello has appointed former Qualzy commercial leader Paul Kingsley-Smith as Head of Growth. More
In New York, attention-based media quality measurement firm Adelaide has launched a new program recognizing survey and outcome partners whose data can be matched directly to AU, its omnichannel media quality metric. More
New Orleans-based data quality specialist Rep Data has appointed former Suzy exec Melissa Dunn as EVP of Marketing. More
In the US, the citizenship question is back on the agenda for the Decennial Census. Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde has introduced the 'Make Apportionment Great Again Act' (MAGA Act), which will add the question to the 2030 Census and exclude non-citizens from apportionment. More
In the US, SurveyMonkey has teamed up with publisher Inc. to launch Growth Signals, a new initiative to capture the perspectives of entrepreneurs and business leaders and bring them into Inc.'s editorial reporting. More
Independent ad tech company The Trade Desk has appointed Vinny Rinaldi as Vice President of Client Strategy & Growth, reporting to COO Vivek Kundra. More
Harlow Consulting, a custom research agency based in Harrogate, Yorkshire, has appointed Mary Meredith as a Research Manager, supporting mixed-methods research and evaluation services. More
Marcoms group Stagwell has appointed former Omnicom / Annalect and WPP executive Dru Sil in the new role of Global Product Managing Director for its Stagwell Media Platform (SMP). More
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