FCB Inferno has hired former Anomaly MD Richard Lawson as its new managing director, replacing Sharon Jiggins who moves to EVP client services looking after its government clients including Sport England and the Home Office. Lawson’s last role was at ...
Read More »Liz Taylor from Ogilvy joins Susan Credle in FCB’s female-friendly creative echelons
vFCB CEO Carter Murray seems to be happily waging a diversity battle all of his own, luring Liz Taylor from Ogilvy Chicago to be CCO of FCB’s huge Chicago office. Taylor (left) replaces Todd Tilford, who’s staying with the agency, ...
Read More »Interpublic’s balancing of traditional and digital pays off with strong organic growth
No wonder Interpublic CEO Michael Roth (below) is looking pleased. The McCann and FCB owner has posted organic revenue growth of 6.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2016 – 8.3 per cent in the US – ahead of ...
Read More »All change at FCB New York as creative leader Lee Garfinkel goes his own way
More big changes are afoot at FCB, although this time they probably weren’t all in CEO Carter Murray’s songbook. Lee Garfinkel (below) is stepping down as CEO of FCB Garfinkel in New York – off to be a proper writer ...
Read More »FCB poaches Gates-Bonarius from Facebook as creative lead on Beiersdorf/Nivea
There’s a lot going on at FCB these days (see our interview with CEO Carter Murray today) has gone some way towards stemming the flow of talented people from agencies to social media. FCB has hired Tris Gates-Bonarius from Facebook’s ...
Read More »Carter Murray on the new FCB and client ups and downs
Interpublic network FCB, previously known as Draftfcb, has been transformed since Carter Murray (below) joined from the top Y&R North America job as global CEO. Here he describes what he did, why he did it, his plans the future and ...
Read More »Coup for IPG’s FCB as it lures Burnett’s Susan Credle for top global creative role
Interpublic is interesting at the moment: a week or so ago it appointed Brit Jim Hytner, the architect of its floundering Mediabrands operation in the UK, as COO of the whole Mediabrands business. Mediabrands remains a player in the US. ...
Read More »Cash rich Vodafone is still looking for a story to tell
Vodafone’s a strange company: one of the UK’s biggest, arguably the inventor of the mobile phone (when it was called Racal and such things were bricks) and awash with cash after selling its 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless ...
Read More »Mcgarrybowen resigns $300m Sears – will owner Dentsu now buy a big creative agency?
Dentsu-owned Mcgarrybowen has resigned the whopper Sears account in the US, the latest shake-out in a protracted agency review by Sears Holdings which also owns supermarket Kmart and some other retail businesses. Mcgarrybowen has handled Sears since 2011. Sears, the ...
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