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24th January 2014

Simon 'Reddo' Redican to become CEO of NRS The National Readership Survey (NRS) has appointed the Radio Advertising Bureau's managing director, Simon Redican, as its next chief executive, replacing retiring Mike Ironside.     Future buys stake in social company Handpicked Media Future publishing has bought a 35 per cent stake in the social media content business Handpicked Media and will seek to help commercialise the six million unique users its network attracts globally every month.     Twitter's Vine celebrates first birthday Vine, Twitter's six-second looping video app, celebrates its first anniversary today.     Things we like: Lena Dunham's Girls, your TV siubscriptions and Sky's AdSmart Things we like include the third series of US show Girls, the doubling up of pay-TV in homes and the arrival of Sky AdSmart. Here's why...     Total Media wins Lenovo EMEA business Lenovo, the Chinese electronics company, has awarded Total Media its EMEA media account after a final two-way pitch.     Media business rankings 24 January 2014: AdConnection is a new entry with CurrencyFair.     ZenithOptimedia moves Karl Guard to lead Zenith UK strategy ZenithOptimedia has promoted Karl Guard, a communications planning director at its international arm ZenithOptimedia Worldwide, to head of strategy for Zenith UK, replacing Rian Shah.     Jam's Miller and Kenny launch Byte start-up Alex Miller, the founder and former chief executive of Jam, has teamed up with the agency's former chief strategy officer Jamie Kenny to launch a start-up called Byte London.     Campaign Viral Chart: New York demon baby takes top spot Twentieth Century Fox's bizarre hidden-camera ad for its 'Devil's Due' movie has topped this week's viral chart with more than one million shares this week alone.     Ling thinks media, creative and tech for digital success The digital veteran and former i-level strategy head is finding his feet as DigitasLBi's media chief, tasked with boosting its international operations. By David Benady.     Has Facebook lost its cool? As the social media network prepares to celebrate ten years, Arif Durrani asks if an ageing user base spells trouble.     Who's footing the bill for opaque media trading? Everyone appears to be a winner in the world of media trading - but someone always ends up paying. By Maisie McCabe.     Let's hope the govt media review is less political - it's a matter of life and death Deep breath - here we go again. The Government is in the precursory stages of the statutory review for its media buying requirements. Much has changed since the consolidation of its departmental ad budgets into Group M's purpose-built M4C in 2010.     Ambitious Twitter aims to double ad revenue The UK unit is thought to be targeting £95 million in adspend this year as it hones its commercial offering.     Google's prying eyes are everywhere. They're even in your thermostat now If you're a columnist, some things are mandatory: the "signing off for Christmas" column, the "interestingly bad service experience" column, the "kids say the darnedest things" column. And further expectations surround those of us who make stuff up about media and technology: "what does X mean for brands?", "what can we pretend to learn from Apple this week?", "whither digital retail?". So it's compulsory to write something when Google buys a company that makes robots and another that does "connected home" products.     My Media Week: Rob Hunt It's not just any week for Rob Hunt, head of creative media, IPC Men & Music - he has the looming NME Awards and Nuts 10th Anniversary party to organise.     Media Week salary survey 2014: How much are you worth? In the first part of Media Week's salary survey for 2014 in association with recruiter Sylex, managing director Simon Shroot charts a steady past year for those working at media owners, and takes a look at the year ahead.   Latest blogs   How the teen exodus could save Facebook The ageing profile of the average Facebook user confirms the site is successfully opening up the world's most affluent consumers.     Titanic vs speedboat: four tips for publishers in the digital age It's topical to look at the evolution of the news organisation following Pierre Omidyar's $50m investment in his and Glenn Greenwald's joint venture, First Look Media, that happened in December.     Programmatic marketing trends to watch in 2014 Savvy chief marketing officers are now using programmatic to their advantage and some trends will continue to drive the conversation in 2014, says Ben Plomion, vice-president of marketing at Chango.     The changing voice of CES: cars steal the show With new exhibitors and new speakers, the best bits of this year's CES held some interesting innovations for marketers and agencies, says Chrissy Totty, head of innovation at Vizeum UK.     It's way past your screen time How young people use screens will become one of the hot topics in tech development in 2014, says Vizeum's head of innovation, Chrissy Totty.

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