WPP media agency Maxus has appointed Richard Lloyd (left) as its first worldwide head of programmatic. Lloyd joined Maxus from WPP/GroupM’s programmatic arm Xaxis in 2016. Maxus CSO Damian Blackden says: “Richard’s appointment is designed to accelerate the work we ...
Read More »L’Oreal and Prince’s Trust forge winning team in new McCann “All Worth It” campaign
Say what you like about Prince Charles (and sometimes we do) his Prince’s Trust does heaps of good work and it’s teamed with L’Oreal to tell young people ‘You’re All Worth It’ (geddit), despite their real or imagined imperfections. To ...
Read More »Nick Baughan of Maxus: is the professional “fear of missing out” holding back the marketing industry?
P&G chief brand officer Marc Pritchard’s recent speech to the IAB (below) was a bold and significant moment for our industry on a range of issues from the media supply chain through to measurability and marketing effectiveness. One particular focus ...
Read More »Andrew Dunn of Maxus: why Scotland and its agencies can have a bright post-Brexit future
Scotland’s media market, like all others globally, has been going through a period of massive transformation. The differences are strikingly clear to me now as I return after a seven-year hiatus spent working in Ireland. Digital, as we all know, ...
Read More »Now Maxus has a global creative director – another sign of media agencies’ creative land grab?
Everybody seems to be trying to eat creative agencies’ lunches these days, not that they have as many of them as they used to, alas. We have production companies offering alternative sources of ‘content,’ a process that probably started with ...
Read More »BT creates new £160m media entity under Maxus
It’s always worrying for agencies when a big client merger happens and one of the biggest recent ones is BT’s £12bn buy of EE in the UK. BT also owns Plusnet. On the media agency front it seems it’s going ...
Read More »Maxus opens tech-based outpost in Scotland
WPP media agency Maxus is opening in Scotland. Maxus Scotland, based in Edinburgh will be headed by Andrew Dunn (left), former MD of MediaCom Dublin which he launched in 2008. Maxus says the new agency will be focussed on technology ...
Read More »Maxus wins digital media for property giant JLL
JLL EMEA, part of one of the world’s biggest commercial property and investment management firms, has appointed Maxus UK as its new digital media agency. Maxus won the account following a competitive pitch and will start with JLL in July. ...
Read More »Nick Vale of Maxus: why Cannes needs to strike a balance between ‘Mad Men’ and ‘Math Men’
As Cannes Lions prepares to welcome 16,000 delegates this month, and introduces two new Lions to celebrate creativity in entertainment, onlookers and Cannes veterans will again be asking whether the festival has become too large, losing its original focus on ...
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