Wunderman Thompson UK has hired Steve Richards as data partner. Richard was managing director of data, consultancy and solutions at Dentsu Data Labs, overseeing a team of 30. Richards (left) reports to reports to UK head of data & insights ...

The disruption businesses faced in 2020 was – wait for it – unprecedented. But it’s also delivered some admirable instances of agility across sectors: brands such as Seekology went from physical to digital, while Michelin-starred restaurants like Pied à Terre ...

London agency VCCP has won a slice of RB (Reckitt-Benckiser as was) business, joining the household goods giant’s new global “brand experience” roster. VCCP will work on hygiene brands Harpic, Vanish and Finish (the last two do other things too ...

L’Oreal has appointed Publicis Groupe to its media business in China after what Publicis claims was the biggest pitch there in 2020. Inevitably Publicis has produced a new agency model for the business, OneL’Oreal (yes really, maybe it plays better ...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital has expanded its footprint in China with award-winning Shanghai creative agency Tomorrow. Tomorrow was founded in 2015 by Rogier Bikker and clients now include Burberry, Budweiser, Beyond Meat, Coca Cola, Starbucks, Crocs and Red Bull. Tomorrow ...

Trouble Maker, the new London agency that started life with the global Peroni account, has won Sports Direct’s social and paid social media business. Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct is the UK’s biggest sporting goods retailer. The agency’s remit includes social ...

Streaming services have driven the transformation of TV, with free-to-use ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) platforms playing a vital role in revolutionising the way TV inventory is produced, bought and sold. Even Amazon is looking to get in on the ...

America’s CIA intelligence agency has rebranded and, as with all such “improvements” to venerable institutions, controversy has sparked. Here are the old and new versions (guess which one is which.) Creative Bloq There’s already a mystery over who designed it, ...

When you hire Wieden+Kennedy London you expect fireworks, even in online bookkeeping and accountancy. And the agency doesn’t disappoint with its first work for Intuit Quickbooks – won in the summer from TBWA – introducing a team of “hard-nosed” advisers ...