Starcom announces the appointment of Louise Peacocke as Managing Partner. Reporting to Hamid Habib, Starcom’s UK Managing Director, Peacocke will be a key member of the leadership team, where she will be responsible for delivering best-in-class products for the agency, leading senior relationships with top-tier clients and driving overall business growth for clients. Peacocke’s digital […]
R/GA, the company that creates transformation at speed, announced Jason Ambrose has been named executive creative director of the Austin office. As the head creative, Ambrose will partner with R/GA Austin’s SVP, Managing Director Candice Hahn and Executive Technology Director Katrina Bekessy to inspire and integrate multi-disciplinary teams of technologists, narrative storytellers and designers to develop […]
IPONWEB, an industry pioneer in the development of advanced advertising platforms and technologies, announced the appointment of Barry Adams to the role of General Manager of BidSwitch, a wholly owned subsidiary that provides smart, integrated infrastructure for the global programmatic ecosystem. For the past two years, Adams served as VP Commercial Development, where he led all […]
The Collaborators have created a new challenger brand for the fledgling cold brew coffee category. Not yet popular in the UK, cold brew coffee is often perceived as faddish or mistaken for a frappe iced coffee drink. Far Side Coffee wanted to change that by bringing expertly made single origin cold brew to the market, […]
With the view to smashing all bias and advocating true Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace, McCann London has teamed up with D&AD New Blood Shift and launched Kkaptionn: the comic book with no words. Featuring aliens, kissing cows and flame-throwing women, this wordless comic will be used by McCann to aid its application process […]
“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” Nike is backing former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the American footballer who famously began ‘taking a knee’ during the US anthem in order to protest police violence against African Americans and racial injustice. On September 3, Kaepernick tweeted out a monochrome image of himself bearing […]
Mischievous elves can be seen wreaking havoc on the sides of lorries up and down the country in the run up to Christmas, kicking off a major marketing and communications campaign to launch the new range of Elves Behavin’ Badly. Toy manufacturer PMS International has covered its entire fleet of lorries with images of Elves […]
 A UK-wide television advertising campaign has been launched today by children’s charity NSPCC highlighting how one in five children in the UK have experienced abuse and neglect. The campaign ‘Everyday’ showcases the wide-variety of services the charity provides to hundreds of children every day to support their recovery from abuse; and to help prevent […]
Y&R London are pleased to announce that they have been appointed by flooring market-leader, Carpetright, to manage an overall creative refresh and develop a new advertising campaign. The appointment follows a competitive pitch handled by AAR this spring. The brief, which was issued against a backdrop of tougher than usual market conditions, includes a desire […]
Chris Wallace joins AKQA as Client Partner of media in the San Francisco studio. Chris has 15 years’ experience in a variety of digital strategy and global client leadership roles focused on data-driven decision making, innovation and business transformation. He is a proven leader with a strong track record across diverse sectors; consumer packaged goods, […]