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DigitasLBi Chicago will be bringing in writers from Buzzfeed, the web's foremost social news and entertainment website, to help generate more effective social advertising campaigns. Writers will be brought in through the “Buzzfeed in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Publicis Groupe customer engagement agency, Rosetta announced yesterday that Steve Libenson has been hired as Partner at Rosetta Consulting. This is a key hire, which will serve to strengthen the industry-leading practice. Libenson will be based...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Advertising Club of New York, a professional organisation that represents the vision and mission of the global advertising industry, honoured 12 members for Outstanding Support and named 6 new board directors at the 118th Annual Meeting of the...
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
Spaghetti hoops, luxury cars, whisky, compact discs, bleach - if you can think of it, somebody has advertised it. And that's fair enough. As long as it's legal, any producer of a service or product has the right to attempt to persuade us to buy it;...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Recently I’ve been catching up on a lot of DVDs. All those TV shows that people told me I had to watch but I just never found the time for them: 24, The Wire, The Killing. Lots of death - lovely. Part of the reason for this is that I am pretty...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Alexandre Okada was announced by DLKW Lowe as their new global creative director for Persil in a statement made yesterday. Okada will be relocating from his native Brazil to the agency's London offices, where he'll be leading their creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Publicis Kaplan Thaler has been named as the lead creative agency for the American seafood restaurant chain, Red Lobster, two months after its account was put into review following a departure from parent company, Darden. Media for the brand is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Starcom MediaVest Group's global chief executive officer, Laura Desmond, has recently been named chair of the board of directors of the Ad Council, succeeding Debra Lee, chairman & chief executive officer of BET Networks. The council will be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
Something has gone terribly wrong with the strapline. Not just a particular strapline, but straplines in general. And I don't mean they're just not much cop these days (although as American 'Realise The Potential' Express will tell you, they're not)....
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Grey San Francisco, the West Coast arm of the advertising network belonging to the Grey Group, announced yesterday that The Sweetwater Music Hall has chosen them as their exclusive marketing partners. The Sweetwater Music Hall is a legendary Bay Area...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced towards the end of last week that Roshni Hegerman will be joining McCann Australia's planning department as senior planner at the agency's Sydney office. Hegerman joins McCann after a stint as planning director at BBDO India, where...
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
Nationwide, the American mutual insurance company, announced last week that it had selected Ogilvy & Mather New York to handle the creative advertising work for their new marketing agreement with Peyton Manning, the quarterback for the Denver...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
After an extensive global search, Saatchi & Saatchi LA has been selected industry veteran Jason Schragger as chief creative officer, a newly formed role at the premier advertising agency. Saatchi LA has been the agency of record for Toyota Motor...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Three days of non-stop events, lectures, and installations can be a sensory-overload for most, but not for the those creative professionals who attended Clerkenwell Design Week. It was impossible to get to everything with over 250 exhibiting brands,...
Posted by: Alexandra Schott
Last week, it was announced that Annette King had been promoted to the role of CEO at Ogilvy & Mather UK, replacing Paul O'Donnell, who himself has also been moved up the ladder, with a promotion to CEO of Ogilvy & Mather EAME. Effective immediately,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A new role has just been cast at the Publicis Groupe owned advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, in the form of Michael Densmore, who joins the agency as chief global growth officer from an executive spot at McKinney. Densmore will start at BBH...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The American full-service agency Neathawk Dubuque & Packett announced recently that they will be appointing award winning creative talent Jimmy Ashworth as executive creative director on the 2nd of June. Ashworth previously worked as the lead...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Oreo is an untouchable part of the American brandscape. There’s no doubt that if innocent-looking Oreo ever had any competition, it would squash it. How is this 102-year-old cookie such a powerhouse brand? 1. That emotional hook “The...
Posted by: bluemarlin
One of the advertising industry's most respected figures passed away suddenly on Saturday at the age of 75. David Abbott was a founding member of the London-based Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, an agency which has created countless award-winning campaigns...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The popular 'Be more dog' campaign, which features the ever loveable 'O2 Cat' has recently been given extra legs with a new £7 million campaign, which aims to support the telecommunications company's revamped 'Priority' app. The campaign, which...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Bridgestone, the world's largest tyre and rubber manufacturer, are targeting a new audience with a new advertising campaign by Publicis Hawkeye for its revolutionary new line of tyres. Emmy-award winning Modern Family star Julie Bowen has been tapped...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Working Mother magazine has recently unveiled their “Best Companies for Multicultural Women” for 2014. This is a great honour, which recognises and celebrates the 25 corporations based in the U.S. that utilise the best practices in hiring...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As the footer of this column will tell you, I’m a copywriter. And a blogger. I also dabble in journalism and podcasting. These are all quite enjoyable and satisfying things - at least from time-to-time - and I’m pretty lucky to do them...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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
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
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
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
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
The Publicis Groupe have promoted within their ranks this week, as Jay Benjamin, former top creative at Leo Burnett New York since is first opening 3 years ago, has been appointed chief creative officer of the New York branch of global advertising...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last month it was announced that online brokerage firm 'E-Trade' were retiring their now legendary talking baby commercials, which have been mainstays on American television since they first aired during the Super Bowl commercials back in 2008....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns