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The Publicis Groupe has announced yet another new acquisition, this time in the shape of Nurun, the global technology consultancy based in Montreal, Canada. Publicis acquired the company for 125 million Canadian dollars from Quebecor, who said they...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Adding another to the list of recent significant senior level appointments at the agency, Leo Burnett India yesterday named Hitesh Mehta as vice president at their head office in Mumbai. He will also be leading the agency's McDonald's business on a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Marketing Evolution CEO, Rex Briggs presented new findings and new analytic capabilities at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Innovation Day hosted by Disney. Briggs' presentation, entitled ACCELERATING THE TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION...
Posted by: Creativepool
Earlier this year, Jeremy Paxman suggested some editions of Newsnight should simply inform the viewing audience there was nothing much to talk about, before rolling the closing credits. Knowing Paxo, he was probably just being provocative, or even...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The news that the next 'Star Wars' film will be a sequel to episode six - 'Return Of The Jedi' - fills me with genuine excitement. That it will star Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Peter Mayhew is thrill upon thrill. However, if this...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Barangaroo, the redevelopment project on the western edge of Sydney's central business district, has appointed 15 agencies to cover categories of creative engagement, design services, digital media services, public relations services, writing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Appliances Online, the family-run online appliance store based in Australia, recently launched its first TV advertising campaign in an attempt to expand its brand recognition. It has also partnered with Channel Nine's 'Big Brother' and Triple M's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Rosetta, the Publicis Groupe's customer engagement agency, announced yesterday that it had promoted five associate partners to partner, elevating the total number of partners at the agency to 47, with 14 managing partners. Tom Adamski, who took over...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Acura, the American-based luxury vehicle division of Honda, the Japanese automotive company, is stepping up marketing for its delayed 2015 TLX with the largest campaign in the brand's history. The TLX is a high-performance luxury sedan, which...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week there was a bit of a shakeup at Havas Worldwide London, with Leila Bartlam leaving the agency for a job at Iris as head of TV, film and content, and Lucy Powell moving to claim Bartlam's vacated role. Powell has been a TV producer at Havas...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Other than reckless and reluctant banks, what would you say is the biggest hindrance to small business, in the UK? High rents? Punitive rates? How about broadband? You would imagine the internet has been nothing but a boon to business, what with the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Skin-care giants, Nivea, recently hired Jack Morton Worldwide, The Interpublic Group's global experience brand agency, to create a live brand experience, which will reach through social media as part of the brand's #smoothmornings campaign. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
The Fresh Awards has quickly become a recognised brand and important highlight in the industry calendar, with an original approach to awards delivery and a policy of keeping the process of entering awards as transparent as possible. The awards...
Posted by: Creativepool
ZenithOptimedia is currently in the process of merging its media buying staff into two teams, who will work on a cross-platform basis, covering audio-visual and display media. Currently, the agency's trading staff are arranged into teams dedicated to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Following a lengthy process and an awful lot of money, we now know Andy Coulson is guilty of conspiring to intercept voice-mail messages; he is also to be retried on the remaining charges. Rebekah Brooks has been acquitted though - and this is not...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
M&C Saatchi has been hired by the click-and-collect online shopping service, Doddle to handle its creative and PR account ahead of a national launch, which is planned to go ahead in 300 locations in major rail stations and shopping centres across the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Publicis Groupe announced yesterday the launch of ROAR, an agency built from the ground-up to be a full-service digital shop, with the very-best specialist digital talent drawn from within the group itself. The idea behind ROAR is to bring...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
VCCP has created a TV spot for car rental company, Avis called “Unlock the World,” which made its televisual debut last night during the World Cup match between England and Costa Rica. The campaign, which was written by Kieran Knight and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
According to the results of the 4th Annual Effie Effectiveness Index, Effie Worldwide has named the Omnicom Group's BBDO as the most effective agency network in the world. These results are determined by the performance of the world's major agency...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Qorvis MSLGROUP, the Publicis Groupe's strategic communications and engagement group, has named Colleen Wilber as its new vice president. Wilber is renowned as one of the best media professionals in the business, with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
‘Nobody knows anything’. So goes the famous quote from screenwriter William Goldman, suggesting that it’s impossible to predict public taste. It’s a theory that would certainly be supported by the haphazard history of the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
How much would you pay for a copy of Nik Kershaw’s album ‘The Riddle’? Should you wish to add it to your iTunes collection via Apple’s store, it would cost you about £5.50. On Amazon’s marketplace, you could pick up...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It was announced this morning that Lucy Knowles had been appointed to the role of business director at Starcom MediaVest Group. She joins Starcom from Neo@Ogilvy, where she served in the same role, and will be leading a team of eight at Starcom for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I don't know whether it's because I'm a writer, but when I watch a movie, the script and screenplay always take my attention. A great concept with a terrible script can really spoil things; likewise a thumping good screenplay can lift an average...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
On 11 December 2008, Project Canvas was announced. A joint venture between the BBC, BT and ITV, it replaced the failed Project Kangaroo, a proposed video-on-demand service which was refused a licence on competition grounds and ended up as the SeeSaw...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
When it comes to the minutiae of modern life, I'm prone to getting things wrong. Go to the shop, come back with the wrong size batteries; turn up for an event on the wrong day; forget to put the clocks back - all that sort of thing, hopeless. But on...
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
It was announced last week that Devin Reiter is to join the flagship McCann Erickson shop in New York, where he will serve as an executive account director. Reiter joins McCann from Crispin, Porter & Bogusky in Boulder, Colorado, where he has been...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Justin Tauber is to assume the position of Director of Platforms and Operations at Lowe Profero in Australia. The role was created especially for Tauber, who previously held the title of Head of Platforms at Lowe...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
So ridiculous, it would have been rejected as a plotline in 'The Thick Of It'. That's not (or not necessarily) my opinion, it comes from the creators of 'The Thick Of It' and it refers to the 'advertisement' placed on Twitter by Grant Shapps,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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
Maxus Partnerships have recently announced a new campaign, known as 'Curry Inspiration' for the Indian food brand Patak's. The brand (which is owned by Associated british Foods), will launch a six figure campaign, running across TV, print, digital,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
You may not have noticed, but they held the Brit Awards last night. You may not have noticed because the TV coverage attracted fewer viewers than any Brits this century. Whether this is a failure of broadcasting, marketing or pop music will remain a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Firing a client is an unusual notion - counterintuitive even. Business norms suggest an enterprise will always welcome the presence of as many paying customers as possible. So why would anyone ever sack a client? Actually, although it would be a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
