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20/1/26
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Posted: 20/1/26

Kantar has new leadership in South Africa, with Ivan Moroke stepping down as CEO, and Brian Reid and Nuala Harris-Morele set to lead the company, and Stacy Saggers appointed as Chief Commercial Officer. In West, East & Central Africa (WECA), Daniel Oseman adds MD and Sussanah Patton CCO, to their existing titles.

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Software firms AB Tasty and Wingify are to merge, under the aegis of private equity firm Everstone Capital, to create a digital experience optimisation platform, offering AI-led experimentation, real-time adaptive personalisation, behavioural insights and analytics.

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Insight and data agency YouGov has added AI agent functionality to its flagship audience intelligence platform Profiles, promising instant access to 'deep, accurate data' from its proprietary panel, via natural language queries.

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Posted: 20/1/26

Media measurement solutions firm AudienceProject is launching a direct integration providing advertisers and agencies with access to independent audience measurement of Disney+ campaigns.

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Funds and Acquisition for ClickHouse

Posted: 20/1/26

In San Francisco, real-time analytics, data warehousing and observability firm ClickHouse has closed a Series D financing round, raising $400 million. The firm also announced the acquisition of Langfuse, an open-source LLM observability platform. More

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Leger Creates AI Advisory Body

Posted: 20/1/26

Canadian-owned polling, marketing research and analytics firm Leger has appointed an Artificial Intelligence Scientific Committee, guiding the company's 'rigorous, thoughtful and responsible' adoption of AI technology. More

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Cynozure Adds FS Sector Leader to Advisory Board

Posted: 20/1/26

In London, data and analytics consultancy Cynozure Group has appointed insurance and financial services veteran David Germain to its Advisory Board. More

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Barb Picks RSMB for Latest API Upgrade

Posted: 19/1/26

Barb has appointed RSMB to deliver the third phase of its API, developed in response to clients' demand for more choice in how viewing data is imported into their internal systems. More

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New Potentia Health Unit and 'Second Opinion' Panel

Posted: 19/1/26

Potentia Insight has launched a new specialist division, Potentia Health, including a panel called Second Opinion, which has been developed in collaboration with, and is co-owned by, the charity Concerts for Carers. More

Recent Appointments

Recent Appointments...

Harlow Consulting

Posted: December 8 2025

Harrogate, Yorkshire-based research agency Harlow Consulting has promoted Ellie Moore to Research Manager, and Kirsty Ainslie to Research Support & Operations Manager. More

Optable

Posted: October 28 2025

In Canada, identity management and data collaboration platform Optable has appointed Crystal Jacques as Vice President of Sales. More

CMB

Posted: October 16 2025

In the US, former Gongos and Human8 employee Eric Stinebiser has joined custom MR and consulting firm CMB as Controller. More

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