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AKQA Chris Wallace joins AKQA as Client Partner of media in the San Francisco studio. Chris has 15 years’ experience in a variety of digital strategy and global client leadership roles focused on data-driven decision making, innovation and...
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Hato - D&AD Festival London-based studio Hato has elected to involve the public in creating the “collaborative visual identity” for this year’s D&AD Festival, using the ‘Start with a Mark’ campaign to invite people to...
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WPP Lindsay Pattison has been named Chief Transformation Officer of WPP with responsibility for getting its agencies to work more closely together for its top 50 clients. Her appointment to the newly-created role comes at a pivotal time for WPP,...
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Mergers are funny old things. More often than not, they're lambasted as job-eating, austerity driven moves that are more about branding than innovation, and result in work that lacks personality and clients feeling like they've been thrown from...
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Wunderman, the leading global digital agency, today announced that POSSIBLE, a multi-service digital agency, has joined its group. The enlarged group will have the scale, expertise and global reach to better meet the demands of global marketers today...
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WPP has reportedly been subject to a significant global cyber attack, with reports of systems crashing and ransom demands. Several WPP agencies, including GroupM, MediaCom and Y&R, are thought to be affected by the attack, which began this afternoon...
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Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson has supported the launch of a new charity, Made by Dyslexia, at the world’s first “dyslexic sperm bank.” Made by Dyslexia is a global charity led by successful and famous dyslexics, and its purpose is to help...
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Officially stepping off the ropes to join the fight (after no small amount of persuasion and 'egging-on' from all and sundry), Google has announced an aggressive, three-pronged approach to addressing the problem of ad misplacement and brand safety...
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Global children’s charity Theirworld has launched an ambitious campaign, created by The Partners in collaboration with other WPP agencies Kantar Added Value, Kantar Futures, MEC and VML, to expose the hidden values and behavioural codes of gender...
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Grey London and Mindshare have partnered to establish a bespoke unit that combines creative, data and media planning and buying to deliver adaptive, personalised, programmatic advertising at an unprecedented speed and scale. Called “Mindshare...
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GroupM, the media investment group of WPP, announced a simplified management structure in the US and Canada designed to deliver consistent and cohesive resources to GroupM agencies centred around two fundamental pillars: media investment and platform...
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WPP media agency Maxus UK has announced the launch of its first ever Diversity Week, to celebrate diversity within the agency. The Diversity Week will run from 19 -23 September 2016 and will feature guest speakers including Jan Gooding, chairwoman of...
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WPP announced this week that Plista, a provider of data-driven native advertising and part of Xaxis, WPP’s global programmatic media company, has acquired Linkpulse, a real-time content analytics company. Based in Oslo, Linkpulse works with...
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WPP has announced that J. Walter Thompson Company, its wholly owned global marketing communications agency, has agreed to acquire iStrategyLabs, otherwise known as “ISL,” a full service digital agency, in the US, in order to expand its...
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McCann Worldgroup - Alzheimer's Society Following a competitive pitch process, Alzheimer’s Society has appointed McCann Worldgroup for a fully integrated scope of work, with the objective to build the society’s brand and increase...
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Winners of the 2016 Effie UK programme were revealed last week at the inaugural Effie Awards Ceremony in London. All 2016 UK finalists were celebrated at BAFTA in London, with 11 of them taking away hardware. MullenLowe Group was named the Agency...
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Ogilvy London & Aardman create Monster Stains Monster Stains: The Art of Stain Removal Ogilvy & Mather London have collaborated with Oscar-winning animation studio Aardman on a new campaign for Unilever’s laundry brand Persil. To demonstrate...
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This Thursday January 21st, three of Cincinnati’s largest advertising agencies: POSSIBLE, Rockfish and Barefoot Proximity, will compete in the inaugural “Agency Fight Night,” a real-time contest to see who can generate the most...
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WPP, the world's largest communications services group, has announced a huge leap forward in the digital advertising stakes with the expansion of its strategic partnership with Adobe, the global leader in digital marketing software, to provide...
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WPP - Coca-Cola Coca-Cola has given its next big global campaign to three WPP agencies: Ogilvy New York, Sra Rushmore in Madrid and the minority-owned Santo in Buebos Aires. Wieden+Kennedy Portland, which helped to devise the long-running...
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WPP China is set to move 26 of its media and ad companies along with 3000 staff currently spread across 10 locations into a gigantic new building in Shanghai, which we will (for now) affectionately call “WPP Towers.” The JWT and Ogilvy & Mather...
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The winners of the 2015 D&AD New Blood awards were announced this week. The awards are given to design students, graduates of the last two years, and those under 23, with the aim of celebrating up-and-coming designers. This year, there were 288...
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Ogilvy & Mather own Cannes. Again On the final evening of the Cannes Lions 2015 last week, Ogilvy & Mather was crowned as Network of the Year for the fourth year in a row. Highlights of Ogilvy & Mather's Cannes Lions 2016 included 1 Titanium Lion -...
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MEC has announced the launch of MEC Commerce, a specialist e-commerce consultancy. Led by MEC Global Solutions in London, the launch is part of an ongoing strategy to create “A leading edge” for the agency’s clients in the constantly changing...
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Starcom Mediavest Group SMG has been appointed as the media agency partner of du, the Dubai-based integrated telecommunications service provider. The win came after an intensive eight-month, multi-agency pitch, with Starcom coming out on top against...
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WPP certainly appear to be stepping into 2015 with both feet forward! Firstly, it's been suggested that WPP might be considering a £2 billion purchase of Tesco's Dunnhumby data division. This would mark yet another major technology purchase for...
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WPP WPP has appointed Roberto Quarta to its board (starting in January), and are planning to have him step into the role of chairman next summer. The current chairman of Smith & Nephew and IMI will succeed former US ambassador to the UK Philip...
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Mediacom Confectionary giant Mars awarded its global media planning account to WPP's Mediacom earlier this week after a consolidation review. The company, which has a global annual spending estimated at $1.5 billion, has, until now, been handled by...
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It was announced yesterday that Possible, the WPP-owned digital agency, will be acquiring the Portland, Oregon-based digital shop Swift, furthering WPP's string of recent investments in fast-growing markets and sectors such as mobile and digital....
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Rentrak, the US ratings measurement company, recently completed its acquisition of Kantar Media's US assets in a deal worth around $128 million, $30 million higher than projected back in October, when Rentrak agreed to issue 1.53 million shares of...
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Karen Blackett OBE, chief executive of WPP's MediaCom, has recently been named “The Most Influential Black Person in Britain” by Powerlist magazine, but the 43-year old leader of the UK's largest media agency still thinks it's odd that...
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The Dentsu Aegis Network's Carat agency has officially snatched the £550 million UK Government buying account from GroupM, the media-buying division of WPP, after GroupM filed a claim at the high court in London to challenge the decision. The...
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Mindshare, WPP's global media agency network, recently held a media summit with a “Planning for Agility” theme, which brought together the brightest mind's in the industry to discuss integrating paid, owned and earned channels. The...
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The latest in a series of recent acquisitions made by WPP; it was announced yesterday that Gloo Digital Design, one of the largest digital agencies in South Africa, as been acquired by the advertising giants through Ogilvy & Mather South Africa. The...
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The UK branch of the Ogilvy & Mather Group recently became the first major, global advertising giant to instigate a Living Wage policy amongst its employees. Becoming a living wage employer means that a company will pay all of their employees a...
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Following a lengthy pitch that also involved competitors such as BBH, GS&P and Anomaly, Crispin Porter + Bogusky won the global creative account for Infiniti, the luxury car division of the Nissan Motor Company. Media will continue to be handled by...
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