Viacom appoints names group account director

Viacom Brand Solutions, the television sales house, has appointed Lucas Cridland as group account director. He joins from Walker Media, where he was director of television . Viacom has also appointed Andy Richardson, a former Sci-Fi Channel executive, as operations director.

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RWE consilodates media planning and buying

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RWE, the German utility company and owner of npower and Thames Water, is understood to be consolidating its media planning and buying business into one agency. Vizeum and MediaCom, which work on the npower account, and Zenith Optimedia, which handles Thames Water, will pitch.