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In a joint statement released yesterday, the global advertising holding groups Publicis and Omnicom officially announced that they had terminated their proposed $35 million merger, following weeks of speculation. The agreement was mutual, and came...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Between May the 21st and the 24th, Destination Imagination will be celebrating Global Finals 2014, the world's largest creative thinking and problem solving competition for students. This year (which promises to be the biggest yet), a record setting...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Keith Smith, the international president of TBWA, announced earlier this week that Dave King was to be appointed as chief creative officer at Whybin\TBWA New Zealand. King will be joining the Auckland-based team in July, replacing Toby Talbot, who is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Compare the Market, the price comparison website that has spawned something of a cult sensation with it's 'Compare the Meerkat' ads and assorted merchandise, are urging their Australian company to visit the site sooner rather than later. This is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Taking the next step in their implementation of a fresh creative structure across Australasia, DDB Australia have appointed Toby Talbot as the chief creative officer at DDB Sydney. The move follows hot on the heels of DDB's recent appointment of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Kate Howe has recently been named as managing director at Gyro London, an agency which focuses on business-to-business advertising. She will join Gyro on the 1st of July this year, and will manage its 82 members of staff in a joint capacity with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The new campaign from AMV BBDO for the UK's largest electrical retailing and services company, Currys and PC World, takes a clever approach, examining the kind of subtle and not-so-subtle manipulations our partners occasionally make in order to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Lowe Profero, the global digital network of Lowe and Partners, announced last week that they have partnered with the Australian based Mexican food chain, Guzman y Gomez, to develop the brand's digital presence both locally and internationally. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
At the New York Festivals ceremony held last Thursday night at the New York Public Library's Beaux-Arts building, BBDO Worldwide was named Network of the Year, marking the 5th time in 7 years the advertising network has received this honour, and the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was revealed yesterday that DigitasLBi will be partnering with Buzzfeed and Epic Digital in developing digital branded content. The first step will involve DigitasLBi and Buzzfeed working together to create “Buzzfeed in Residence,” a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
At the very first Cannes Lions Health Festival this summer, it's been announced that the Publicis Healthcare Communications Group will be taking to the stage. The Cannes Lions Festival has enjoyed a rich heritage spanning 60 years. The festival...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced on Tuesday this week that Auge Reichenberg, one of the most respected creative executives in healthcare communications, is to join McCann HumanCare, the consumer-focused health and wellness arm of McCann Health. She joins McCann from...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Manchester-based digital marketing and technology consultancy, Amaze, has announced the appointment of two senior digital commerce specialists to help boost that area of its business. Jodie Stapleton joins as head of commerce and Kami Boyer Kris as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity have hired McCann London to create a campaign which will promote the upcoming 2014 festival. The campaign takes the form of a series of stills that have been designed to mimic (and mock) the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For the second year running the top distinction at the annual Facebook Studio Awards has gone to an advertising agency and brand combination, who used the social media platform as a base from which to launch a successful campaign. This year the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week, Ogilvy & Mather announced that Lou Aversano is to be promoted from his current role as chief operating officer at the agency's New York office, to chief executive officer, effective immediately. He will remain in New York for the new role,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The planned merger of major, global advertising holding firms Publicis and the Omnicom Group has hit a few major hurdles of late, which will need to be resolved before the $35 billion merger can take place. The first major hurdle to overcome will be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
AKQA has developed a unique online campaign to promote Ubisoft's upcoming multi-platform, open-world action adventure game, Watch Dogs. The campaign aims to explore how technology can expose data by creating a digital footprint from public (and yet...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
At the 50th annual International ANDY Awards last week, Leo Burnett Worldwide won big, picking up 10 wins (four Golds, 4 Silvers, and 2 Bronzes) and being named the most awarded network of the year for the fifth consecutive year. This year's ceremony...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The BBC notwithstanding, and a peppering of community outfits aside, there aren’t really any independent radio stations left in the UK. It’s all ‘networks’ - which is a rather overexcited way of saying a large corporation...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Publicis Conseil have recruited Australian singer, actress and icon Kylie Minogue to take centre stage in a new campaign designed to raise funds for, and to bolster the reputation of the Alliance for Research in Cancer, both in its native France and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Wieden + Kennedy's global co-executive creative director, Colleen DeCourcy, has recently been made partner at the agency after just 15 months. As a partner, she will join a select group of 11, which also includes president Dave Luhr, executive...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Brand design and innovation agency Seymourpowell have recently released the results of their collaboration with the Carlsberg Group; a bottle and a fresh brand identity for the worldwide launch of their new drink; 'Seth & Riley's Garage Hard Lemon'....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The battle for talent between WPP and their rivals Publicis and Omnicom (who will soon be merging) continues apace as the Publicis Group's 'Razorfish' (a full service digital agency based in New York) announced they had poached WPP MediaCom's head of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced earlier this week that M&C Saatchi LA will be in charge of all strategic, creative and production duties for the social media account of UGG Australia, taking the account from incumbent agency, 360i. UGG Australia is a fine clothing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett, one of the world's leading creative advertising networks, recently announced the departure of KV Sridhar, the chief creative officer for India and the subcontinent. Affectionately known as 'Pops' amongst co-workers and friends, Sridhar...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, AKQA received perhaps the highest accolade that it's possible for a UK business to receive; The Queen's Award for Enterprise. AKQA, a digital company with over 1500 employees and offices across the world (in Europe, the Americas and Asia)...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Though world renowned weight loss brand Weight Watchers have been with McCann Erickson New York for seven years now, it was announced late last week that their advertising business will now be covered by Widen + Kennedy, the independently owned,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It has been revealed over the weekend that ad man Rohan Young is to take the role of executive creative director at TBWA\Raad Dubai. Young has been working on a freelance basis in Amsterdam for the past 12 months, as well as filling the creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that DLKW Lowe has hired Lovisa Silburn and Amber Casey to be the new creative directors of the agency. Silburn and Casey have worked together before at DDB, where they first met back in 2002 and became long-term friends,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Grey Group ad agencies '41?29! Media Internet' and 'Uncle Grey' (based in Turkey and Denmark respectively) launched a brand new campaign, which aims to raise public awareness regarding endangered...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A new ad campaign for Thetrainline.com highlights how its bespoke app (available for Android and iOS devices) is (as the tagline says) “Brilliant for train stuff, but rubbish for anything else.” The campaign launched earlier this week,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
M&C Saatchi has recently appointed to handle all creative services for NRMA Insurance, the biggest insurance creative account in the Australian market, which also includes their SGIC and SGIO brands. The agency won the deal (which is rumoured to be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, Ogilvy & Mather New Zealand released a new video, which officially announced the launch of Neo@Ogilvy, the agencies brand new digital division in Auckland. The cutting-edge agency (which is part of a global network that consists of over 40...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
On Monday, Gatwick Airport launched a social media contest called 'The X-ray Collection', which offered users the chance to guess products that had been photographed using the X-ray scanner at the London airport. The products scanned all come from...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett announced yesterday that Nigel Tribe had been appointed as head of strategy for Leo Burnett Singapore and global planning director for SKII. This appointment comes hot on the heels of not only some major recent wins for the agency...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns