What used to be one of the biggest jobs in London’s adland is now vacant – Ogilvy UK CEO Michael Frohlich is leaving to return to PR as EMEA CEO at Interpublic-owned Weber Shandwick. Frohlich (below) made waves when, on ...
Read More »Vice Media creative agency Virtue adds two heavy hitters with PLTFRMR deal
Vice Media Group has bought creative consultancy PLTFRMR to merge it with its creative agency Virtue. In doing so it adds two heavy hitters: Chris Garbutt, a former global CCO of TBWA Worldwide and Colin Mitchell, former SVP global marketing ...
Read More »Talon strengthens its global programmatic Out of Home capabilities with Hivestack
New partnership expands automated and data-driven OOH access to advertisers The Talon Group, the leading global independent Out of Home (OOH) agency, has announced a partnership between its US, international and German businesses with Hivestack, a global adtech leader in ...
Read More »Facebook’s global media pitch team should be interesting – who are the poachers and who the gamekeepers?
Facebook is reviewing its estimated $750m global media account – not a surprise really as most big advertisers seems to do this these days every two years or so. Facebook has only recently emerged as a big advertiser, using advertising ...
Read More »WPP pulls out the creative stops with debut film for P&G beauty brand SK-11
We all know by now that WPP is forging ahead as a “commerce company,” can the marketing giant still hack it creatively? Here’s its first effort for P&G Japanese skincare brand SK-11, one of seven short films (not that short, ...
Read More »Rightmove changes tack to laud “the renter”
Property site Rightmove seems to be aiming at a new market – renters. Quite unusual in property-obsessed Great Britain but maybe property-owning has lost some of its lustre as thousands of leaseholders face ridiculous bills to fireproof “their” properties when, ...
Read More »Publicis takeover rumours re-emerge – now it’s Vivendi
Speculation about a merger between French-owned marketing groups Publicis and Havas has re-emerged following a French media report. Havas pre-dates even the venerable Publicis although it’s now owned by Vivendi, controlled by French tycoon Vincent Bolloré (left.) Son Yannick runs ...
Read More »Royal Ascot plays inclusivity card as it awaits racegoers
The Royal Ascot race meeting takes place from June 15 so, presumably, there’ll be some racegoers there. It’s the occasion when the British establishment is on parade of course – most notably with the Queen’s horse-drawn procession down the course ...
Read More »Honda awards Europe below-the-line to Missouri
London design and communications agency Missouri has won Honda Motor Europe’s below-the-line account after a pitch. The brief includes work on Honda’s new HR-V hybrid. Honda is Missouri’s first auto account. Missouri creative director and founder Stuart Wood says: “We ...
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