GroupM last month named Karin Ross as CEO Germany. Karin Ross was the COO for the past three years, and succeeds Jürgen Blomenkamp who last August shared his decision to pursue new challenges.

For the first time, Google disclosed the financial numbers for YouTube. Last week, Google released the financial results for 2019, where it stated the YouTube ad revenue for the last 3 years.

Supermetrics last month announced that is acquiring Da Vinci Tools, a provider of Google Marketing Platform. Da Vinci Tools CEO, Stephané Hamel, will join Supermetrics as an evangelist.

Xandr, AT&T’s advertising company, last month announced 4 new brands joining Community, Xandr’s video marketplace. The CW, Tastemade, AccuWeather, and Microsoft Advertising are the new companies joining Community.

Tubi last month announced it is expanding to Mexico later this year, in collaboration with TV Azteca. TV Azteca will offer advertising sales for Tubi in Mexico and promote the service to its massive audience via online and other platforms.

TVSquared yesterday released the report Performance Insights for Australian TV Advertisers. TVSquared analysed 200,000 spots, using data from the ADvantage attribution platform.

Freewheel last month published the Video Marketplace Report (VMR) for the Q3 of 2019. The report shows that 24% of the video ads were bought by buyers via an audience, while 76% of the ad views were non-audience targeted.

DoubleVerify last month announced a connected TV (“CTV”) Targeting Certification for programmatic platforms, designed to protect advertisers from fraud and invalid traffic (“IVT”) in the CTV space. The first DSPs certified are Amobee, MediaMath, SpotX, The Trade Desk and Xandr.