Mark Lund, a founder of DLKW and then Now and a former boss of the Government’s COI, has been CEO of McCann Worldgroup for 15 months now and nothing much seems to have happened. McCann Worldgroup includes a gaggle of ...
Read More »Karlsson heads off to Commonwealth as McCann shuffles global creative pack – again
What is Linus Karlsson up to at McCann and what is McCann up to with its creative leaders? Karlsson (left), who joined the agency from Mother New York during the reign of Nick Brien, was originally appointed chairman and CCO ...
Read More »Will new Brit at McCann NY (Chris Macdonald) be more successful than the last one (Nick Brien)?
Having, a while back, complimented Chris Macdonald on the improved quality of his tailoring, it would be churlish not to congratulate London’s sharpest suit on landing the hot seat at McCann New York, where he will soon become president. Macdonald ...
Read More »New McCann boss Harris Diamond recalls old guard – Joyce King Thomas rejoins to mind Mastercard
Former McCann New York CCO Joyce King Thomas (pictured) is rejoining the troubled agency to head a new group, effectively a ‘Team Mastercard,’ for one of the Interpublic-owned agency’s biggest remaining accounts. King Thomas left the agency two years ago ...
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