Havas helia is strengthening its senior leadership with the appointment of Louise Whitcombe, current COO at LIDA, as Group Managing Director. Whitcombe will lead the helia Group agencies across London and Cirencester. Whitcombe started her career at GGT Direct before senior leadership roles at Lowe and DraftFcb. She became Deputy Managing Director at LIDA before […]
BBDO Worldwide, a division of Omnicom Group Inc. announced that it has acquired a majority stake in Wednesday Agency Group, a leading creative agency focused on fashion and luxury lifestyle brands. Wednesday Agency Group delivers fully integrated campaigns, content strategy, digital design and branding, and production for some of the world’s best recognized brands in […]
DDB Group Worldwide has appointed Joji Jacob, Group Executive Creative Director, DDB Group Singapore as Head of DDB Asia’s Creative Council. In addition to his creative remit covering Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Korea, Joji will also take care of India working closely with Sonal Dabral, Chief Creative Officer of DDB Mudra. “DDB is one […]
The rumour mill is in full swing about the future of Twitter’s hallmark character-limit as it sets it sights on jump starting user growth. If rumours are to be believed then Twitter is set to replace its trademark 140-character limit with a new function that will allow users to post tweets containing up to 10,000 […]
Forward Media, part of Havas Media Group, has appointed Tony Mattson as its Head of Strategy. He joins the agency this week from UM London where he worked for almost a decade, latterly as Managing Partner, Strategy. In his new role at Forward Media, the newest agency within the Havas Media Group stable, Mattson will […]
Many brands prefer to upload their videos directly to Facebook, according to data from quintly. YouTube videos only make up roughly one-quarter of all videos posted by brands on the social network. The research from quintly is based on a sample set of more than 1 million Facebook posts analyzed between July and November 2015, […]
In a significant move by the Victorian State Government, Public Transport Victoria now delivers all-night public transport on weekends in Melbourne. GPY&R Melbourne has created a campaign to launch the Night Network, showcasing how public transport can ‘Open Up Your Night’ and cementing Melbourne as the late-night capital of Australia. The Night Network launched on […]
BMW has appointed FCB Inferno to create its global xDrive campaign for the next winter season in 2016/2017. The global integrated campaign will run across a number of key markets and feature a completely through-the-line campaign from TVC, digital, retailer, CRM and social etc. FCB Inferno has worked with BMW since winning the UK account […]
Cheil Worldwide has hired McCann’s Richard Newman to drive growth for the ad agency network as regional chief growth officer. Newman was previously chief marketing officer for McCann, a role he has held since 2011. He will report to Aaron Lau, president of international, and CEO of Cheil Greater China. Lau stated in a press release: “We […]
Facebook-owned Oculus announced it is to begin accepting pre-orders for its virtual reality (VR) headset Rift, bringing renewed vigour to the sector as a host of competitors are also poised to unveil similar offerings at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). A post on the company’s official blog announced that it is to begin accepting pre-orders from […]