

UK retail chain Marks & Spencer has appointed financial services veteran Nathan Davies as its first Head of Data and AI Delivery, leading the execution and scaling of major programmes across the group. The hire continues a recent series of senior appointments geared towards digital transformation.
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US trade body the Insights Association has today written to the Commerce Department asking it to reject a reported proposal to strip race and ethnicity questions from the 2030 Census.
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System1 has launched another addition to its 'Test' range of products, Test Your Ad Screen. This is an AI screening tool allowing users to quickly screen up to 100 finished long-form creative assets at a time, and predicting which are effective and worth investing in.
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London agency Research Clever has appointed former Kadence and MIS Group researcher Cécile King as Commercial Director.
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STATCO has appointed Brian Blomholt as its new Chief Financial Officer - he adds this to his existing role of Director at Wilke, a company within STATCO's MR division, RAIT. More

Californian marketing data firm Hightouch has appointed twenty-year Google veteran Jitendra Kumar as Head of Commercial, Advertising. More

San Mateo, CA and London-based business Twin1 AI has raised $20 million in seed funding for its platform, which creates an AI-powered digital twin for every professional, allowing their knowledge to be shared around an organisation on a permissioned basis. More

In Sydney, Australia, streaming services trade body the Video Futures Collective (VFC) has announced a deal with Copenhagen-based measurement specialist AudienceProject, to develop what it claims is the country's 'first' independent cross-media audience measurement solution. More

In Massachusetts, B2B intent data and signal-based go-to-market solutions firm Intentsify has announced an integration with data and AI infrastructure provider Clay, making the former's Buyer Intelligence - including account-level intent and persona-level signals - available on the latter's platform. 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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