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The leading global marketing services company, McCann Worldwide is partnering with Argentine creative Martin Mercado to start the new global creative agency hub in Buenos Aires with its name, Mercado McCann. With the strong talent capability behind...
Posted by: Creativepool
Filmmaker Jon Avnet, who has worked on films such as “Risky Business” and “Black Swan” has launched a new fully integrated digital studio, which aims to deliver original, high-profile, premium half-hour and hour-long content...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Of all the things Apple do well, creating a hullabaloo is one of the best. Despite ongoing wars and Scotland's bid for independence, the launch of a new product still performed well in the news agenda on Tuesday. Live from Cupertino, the world's...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Braintree, a subsidiary of eBay (eBay acquired Braintree in an all-cash £800 million deal almost a year ago) that deals with the payment processing for a number of popular mobile apps, recently announced that it would be accepting Bitcoin...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that the Publicis Groupe is to acquire the design agency Turner Duckworth on behalf of the Leo Burnett network, which it owns. Turner Duckworth is most known for its designs for Coca-Cola, particularly its 2012 redesign of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Today, in the late afternoon, it all kicked off on Twitter. Was it despair at further appalling news seeping from the Middle East? Or fury over another catastrophic governmental decision? Of course not. It was the revelation that Twitter itself is...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The Publicis Groupe has been tipped to acquire Criteo, the online advertising company based in Paris, France. According to recent reports, the acquisition would help the Publicis Groupe expand its digital capabilities, as Criteo specialise in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Paul Roebuck will return to BBDO as executive vice president and worldwide senior business director with oversight of the agency’s Johnson & Johnson consumer business at the BBDO headquarters in New York. This is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
DigitasLBi, the Publicis Groupe's global digital marketing and technology agency, recently acquired a new digital agency of their own in the form of South African shop Liquorice, which will form part of DigitasLBi's Middle East & Africa region under...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Hyundai Motor Company has just launched a dazzling new interactive billboard campaign at the world famous Times Square in Manhattan, New York. The campaign, which is called “Hyundai Brilliant Interactive Art,” creates a two-way...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The American Honda Motor Company announced yesterday that it would be consolidating the lion's share of the digital marketing for both its primary Honda brand and its Acura luxury brand into a new team drawn from Razorfish and other members of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Thursday is definitely the new Friday, and last Thursday we hung out at the new House of Vans for the opening of London’s only indoor skatepark. Because its hidden around five of the Old Vic tunnels beneath Waterloo Station, its a bit hard to...
Posted by: Creativepool
After a formal review, global customer experience-marketing agency, and the digital and direct marketing arm of Interpublic's McCann Worldgroup, MRM//McCann, announced late last week that Cisco Systems had chosen them as their global demand...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The health behaviour experts at Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide announced yesterday that its New Jersey office had made five promotions and made two new hires. Promotions Former account executive Libber Werner has been promoted to the role of senior...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Amazon has stated they want to make purchasing advertisements from the site “As easy as buying a new book” with their new self-service tool, which allows media buyers to purchase ads without needing to involve a salesperson. The Publicis...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With former chief strategy officer Claudine Cheever departing Saatchi & Saatchi New York for an as yet undisclosed role within another Publicis Groupe agency, Wanda Pogue has been named as her successor. Pogue is a Saatchi veteran whose most recent...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It might seem obvious, which way up to hold your camera, but there’s a lot more to orientation and viewpoint than simply not taking too many pictures of your feet. Change where you are in relation to your subject or how you frame them and you...
Posted by: Fotolia
Crown Partners, the electronic business services firm based in Dayton Ohio, has been acquired by the French multinational Publicis Groupe and will now be operating as a subsidiary of Razorfish Technology Platform Services, the international holding...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
John Mescall has been named as the new global executive creative director at McCann's headquarters in New York. The move will see him relocated from McCann Australia, where he has served as executive creative director since October 2011. The move is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week, I wrote a blog post entitled, Why on earth do I need a copywriter? I speak English and own a computer. As I'd hoped, the blog caught the attention of a lot of you - but not just copywriters, as it turned out. From designers to marketing...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Yesterday, it was announced that Natalie Lam has been appointed as executive creative director of Razorfish, at the agency's headquarters in Times Square, New York. Razorfish is a part of the Publicis Groupe holding company, and is one of the world's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
At last weeks 46th Annual Effie Awards, Ogilvy & Mather walked away with top honours for Unilever's “Winning Back Dove Love” campaign for Dove Real Beauty Sketches. It was revealed as the winner of the 'Grand Effie' (effectively the 'best...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It's 'No Tobacco Day 2014'. Hooray. It is often said there are too many 'days' dedicated to this that and the other. And I think this rather proves the point. Not because the World Health Organisation (who are behind the event) shouldn't have an...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
In my own naïve way, when wandering around art galleries, I've often stood with hands clasped behind my back, looking up at some impressive bronze statue or other and thought... “What if the sculptor made a mistake?” That's more or...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Late last year, a picture of Cheryl Cole appeared on the internet and in various newspapers. Nothing particularly odd about that; Ms. Cole is a constant media fixture. Only this picture, which she had released herself, was of her backside, newly...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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
Warc, the global online advertising resource, recently announced the winners of the inaugural Warc Prize for Social Strategy. The prize is a search for social ideas (any strategy designed to generate 'earned media') that drive business results, and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett London have used the world famous Piccadilly Circus to give “Power to the people” in an ambitious new marketing stunt for McDonald's. The globally popular fast food brand is giving Londoners and tourists alike the chance to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, Chime Communications posted pre-tax profits of £25 million for 2013. Operating income at the marketing services company, meanwhile, rose 8% year on year to £169.5 million. Annual operating profits, however, were flat, and the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If you’re anything like me, you’ll belong to quite a lot of LinkedIn groups that are relevant to your area of work. For me, a lot of these are copywriting-specific groups, but I also belong to others to do with subjects like SEO, social...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
It would appear the Publicis Groupe's digital spending spree is continuing apace as news breaks of their recent acquisition of the Dallas, Texas based Hawkeye, a digital marketing services agency that specialises in data analytics, digital strategy,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
5 reasons that the water category is on the rise according to Guy Williams. 1. The trend towards health consciousness. People have a better understanding of the importance of hydration and growing concerns about obesity and other related diseases...
Posted by: bluemarlin
As the music industry continues to dwindle into a sea of mediocrity and despair, established groups are struggling to find new ways in which to interact and 'connect' with their audience. Oxford alt-rock heroes Radiohead are the latest to join the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Since it was bought by the French multinational 'Publicis Groupe' back in 2011, the Digitas name utilised by UK agency Kitcatt Nohr has been synonymous with helping brands create unique and daring advertising opportunities. However, the company now...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
These days, we’re by no means strangers to the phenomenon that is reality TV. It permeates every channel, every genre and every demographic. We laugh at the modern Victorian freak show that is X Factor, with their hopelessly deluded, fragile...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Say what you like about Tesco, but they know how to create a fuss. A couple of days ago, the digital, broadcast and print media fell on a story about the retail giant and its latest advertising wheeze. As a plethora of reports rushed to tell us,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw