UK advertising spend in Q3 2017 rose 3.5% year-on-year to reach £5.4bn – the 17th consecutive quarter of market growth, according to Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report data published on January 31. The latest data underpin preliminary figures which show 2017 spending grew to £22.1bn – representing the eighth consecutive year of market growth. Further key […]
Socially-led creative agency We Are Social has launched We Are Social Sport in the UK, a dedicated team of sports specialists offering an experienced, social-first approach to sports marketing. It is the first separate division launched by We Are Social in the UK, and has been created in response to continued growth within the sports […]
Mélanie Dunn, Cossette’s Global President and CEO, announced the promotion of Peter Ignazi and Carlos Moreno to the newly created role of Global Chief Creative Officers. The pair will lead the creative vision for the agency and the creative expression of its brand in every market Cossette does business in, while supporting the company’s international […]
Award-winning experiential marketing agency Sense has appointed Dan Parkinson as Planning Director to oversee the work and development of its growing London-based Planning Team. Parkinson’s career in marketing spans 12 years, with the past eight spent focusing on brands and design. He joined Sense from Coley Porter Bell, where he worked across a number of […]
DiMassimo Goldstein has hired Ryan Moglia to the new position of Head of Data Insights & Activation. The agency, which bills itself as a different kind of lead brand agency focused on behaviour change, has been making headlines lately with news of new clients and significant hires. This hire continues this momentum. “Ryan and his […]
Emmy-nominated director and producer Senain Kheshgi has teamed up with advertising industry veteran and executive producer Jonathon Ker to launch Los Angeles-based MAJORITY, a new production company with an all-women roster of established and ascending directors. The company, which is backed by M&C Saatchi, will operate as its own agency-agnostic entity, with the ability to […]
World leaders in business and politics recently gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. One of the annual attendees is MiSK Global Forum, an ongoing platform, set up to educate youth, and prepare them for the future. The World Economic Forum predicted that 65% of kids in school today will have jobs in […]
Hootsuite, the most widely used social media management platform, and We Are Social, the global socially-led creative agency, have released Digital in 2018, a report of social media and digital trends around the world. Representing 239 countries and territories, the seventh annual report finds the number of internet users in the world has now surpassed […]
A London-based tech company are hoping to inspire creativity in the workplace and innovation in the sector by launching their own limited edition ‘Idea Beer’. Sideways 6 is a Shoreditch-based tech firm helping large organisations to collect, manage and act on employee ideas, insight and feedback. Often called ‘idea management’ or ‘innovation management’, the aim […]
Integrated property branding agency me&dave has just announced the appointment of Alistair Williams as its new Design Director. Alistair will be leading and inspiring the creative team, furthering the agency’s quest to push boundaries and rid the real estate sector of clichéd, lacklustre branding. Alistair has worked at some of London’s leading agencies over the […]