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Top 5 Account Wins of the Week

Jack Morton Worldwide - Kodak Jack Morton Worldwide has been appointed by Kodak to create its presence at Drupa 2016; the world’s leading trade show for print and cross media solutions. Drupa 2016 will take place between 31st May and 10th June...

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Top 10 Hires of the Week

Frequency540 Independent digital marketing agency Frequency540 (FQ540) has hired award-winning creative talent Suzanne Michaels to oversee its creative department. Michaels will be responsible for driving the creative vision for all of...

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WPP adds the Essence of digital advertising to its roster

As has been strongly rumoured, it’s been confirmed this week that WPP is buying a majority stake in Essence Digital, described by the company themselves as a leading global digital agency and the world’s biggest independent buyer of...

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Top 5 Account Wins of the Week

Gyro Manchester/Citypress - BRUSH The Manchester office of Gyro and integrated PR consultancy Citypress have been appointed to lead a global marketing and communications brief for BRUSH, the world’s largest independent manufacturer of...

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Ads of the Week

Leo Burnett London - Freeview Freeview unveiled its biggest ever advertising campaign from Leo Burnett London this week to launch its connected TV service Freeview Play. The new “Set Yourself Free” TV spot launched as a premiere ad break...

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Crabbie's ginger beer to sponsor revived TFI Friday

In a deal presumably signed due to the unmistakable hew of host Chris Evans' mop, Crabbie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer has been announced by Channel 4 as the official sponsor for the freshly revived TFI Friday, the anarchic talk show that arguably defined...

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Top 10 Hires of the Week

The Mill Alex Fitzgerald and Evelyn O’Reilly have joined The Mill’s London production department. Fitzgerald returns to The Mill as an Executive Producer. He most recently worked as a Senior Producer at Framestore, where he produced notable...

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Top 5 Ads of the Week

Holman + Hunt - AMC UK Launch Even if you're one of the few remaining people who haven't seen Breaking Bad (and if so, get on it, trust me) you're undoubtedly familiar with the work of Bryan Cranston as the now iconic anti-hero Walter White. So it...

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Inaugural UK Agency Award winners announced

The first ever UK Agency Awards (a joint venture between The Art of New Business and Don’t Panic Events) was held in a glamorous ceremony at the Emirates Stadium last Thursday (September 10), which was attended by 200 industry professionals...

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Top 5 Account Wins of the Week

Droga5 – NBTY NBTY, a global manufacturer, marketer, distributor and retailer of market-leading vitamins, supplements and sports and active nutrition products, has announced Droga5 as its new strategic and creative advertising agency partner. The...

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Lucozade Sport is strictly for the home nations

In this morning's second piece of rugby related news (see our piece on Jack Whitehall's rugby school experience with BBH for Samsung HERE) Grey London has hooked into our love of the game (and our national pride) with a new campaign for Lucozade...

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JWT fight depression with brainy humour

Whilst many people who have experienced it might take umbrage with the idea of using humour as a coping mechanism, as someone who has lived with clinical depression for my entire adult life, I can honestly say I wouldn't have made it this far without...

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Cannes Lions Winners: Day 2

Cannes Lions 2015 - Highlights from Day Two Ogilvy & Mather After a phenomenally successful first full day at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2015, Ogilvy & Mather found even greater success yesterday by walking away with 45...

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Top 5 Awards Of The Week

AMV BBDO retains Google FAB Agency of the Year title The 17th Annual International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards (The FAB Awards) were held last week at the quintessentially British “Hurlingham Club” in London. The black...

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Account wins of the Week

TBWA\Chiat\Day – Kenwood Vineyards TBWA\Chiat\Day has been named agency of record for Kenwood Vineyards, a brand that was acquired by wine & spirits leader Pernod Ricard USA last year. The agency was appointed to help lead a re-launch of the brand...

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Account Wins of the Week

Cheil UK – Absolut Vodka Absolut, Pernod Ricard’s leading brand of premium vodka, has handed Cheil UK a global off-trade retail design brief to focus on ensuring a globally consistent in-store brand identity. The agency secured the work after a...

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Hires of the Week

Odysseus Arms Independent ad agency Odysseus Arms welcomed Eric Dunn to the newly created role of Managing Director this week. He will be responsible for expanding the operation, refining client services and steering digital architecture. Dunn is a...

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Hires of the Week: Part 1

BMF Nicole Hetherington and Simon Fowler, the award-winning creative duo, joined the BMF creative department. The Kiwi team moved to Sydney five years ago after winning New Zealand Young Lions competition, and have since created unique and effective...

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Cannes Lions announce innovative speakers

Cannes Lions has announced the first list of speakers for Lions Innovation; the new “Festival within a festival” that will run during the Cannes Lions Festival this year, and focuses on innovative data, technology and ideas in...

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NOW TV reveal magical new identity

The independent, London-based brand consultancy Venturethree has created a colourful new brand identity for NOW TV, the TV streaming service from Sky, marking the first rebrand since the service launched back in July 2012. The new identity features a...

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BetVictor and VCCP diversify their mascot

BetVictor has really doubled (or tripled even) down on its loony mascot Maurice in a trio of new spots by VCCP, which feature the zany character played by Paul 'Denis Pennis' Kaye in a variety of guises, each one obsessed with getting the best odds...

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Inspiration for Advertising Week Europe

Karmarama has used inspirational quotes from influential people such as director Richard Curtis and TV chef Jamie Oliver as a basis for a new print and poster campaign that aims to raise awareness of this year's Advertising Week Europe. The work...

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Behind the scenes with the latest celebrity cat Malcolm

In its first TV campaign for Young's Seafood since winning the account last Summer, Quiet Storm has hired Shakespeare in Love and Shrek star Rupert Everett to voice a fish-obsessed cat called Malcolm. The multi-million pound campaign hopes to...

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Business Roundup

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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Aston Kutcher dumps pizza for gum

Two and a Half Men star and stoner icon, Ashton Kutcher, appears in a new advertising campaign from CLM BBDO & Energy BBDO for Extra, the UK's most popular brand of chewing gum. The £15 million marketing campaign will run throughout 2015,...

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Business Roundup

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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Business Roundup

Droga5 know it's fun to stay at the YMCA After a competitive review, the YMCA of the USA has selected Droga5 to handle its national brand positioning efforts in a new creative strategy that will launch in 2016. The agency will be charged with...

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Sven-Göran Eriksson and Mark Lawrenson place their bets

Football legends Sven-Göran Eriksson (former England manager and current Shanghai SIPG manager) and Mark Lawrenson (BBC football presenter and former Liverpool defender) recently starred in a new campaign for the online betting site BetVictor. In...

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The Most Influential Black Person in Britain

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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Three BIG appointments at Executive Channel International

In a bid to restructure the Australian agency Executive Channel, executive chairman Bruce Fink has announced the company's new board of directors, which includes Kim Wiliams, the former boss of News Corp, who has joined the company, which specialises...

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AdWorld Roundup: Accounts

Shop Direct Takes The Cake Shop Direct, the owner of digital retail brands such as Very and Littlewood's, recently named the Cake group as its retained PR agency following a competitive pitch. Lee Publicity will contain to be kept on retainer as...

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AKQA to revolutionise 'Mobile Experience' at Universal Orlando

AKQA has managed to retain its Audi digital business following a lengthy review process. Audi is also currently looking for a separate agency entirely to handle its social media business, as the company looks to further modernise its marketing...

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Bose goes all in with IPG and WPP

The UK-based audio equipment maker Bose recently consolidated its media agency business between Interpublic Group and WPP shops after a lengthy review, which began in the spring. The review, which was supported by the London-based search consultancy...

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Two significant promotions in the ad world

Two big appointments were announced yesterday. The first concerns Lindsay Pattison of the WPP media agency Maxus, the smallest of the media agencies within GroupM, the division of WPP that oversees media, also overseeing MEC, MediaCom and Mindshare....

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NRMA Insurance launch new campaign from award winning agency

A new campaign for Australian insurance firm NRMA Insurance, highlights its home and contents insurance policy with an amusing 30-second TV spot that shows a family of possums breaking into a family's home while they're away on holiday. The campaign...

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October's latest vertical and horizontal moves in the creative world

The last week has seen a lot of creative moves, with announcements made from all corners of the globe. Perhaps the biggest announcement was made by video advertising firm TubeMogul, who hired Mauricio Leon, formerly of ZenithOptimedia, as commercial...

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