Social Chain Media announces a trio of key hires: Formerly of LADbible Group, Global Radio and Hill+Knowlton Strategies.

Social Chain Media announces a trio of key hires: Formerly of LADbible Group, Global Radio and Hill+Knowlton Strategies.

Social Chain Media, part of the global social media and ecommerce business, Social Chain, today announces the appointment of Adam Middleton as a Strategy Director, with experience from LADbible Group and Zenith Media, Tom Whitlow as Head of Podcasting from Global Radio and Richard White as Head of Gaming from Hill+Knowlton Strategies. The flood of […]

WPR Strengthens Portfolio with David Lloyd Clubs launch of BLAZE Birmingham

WPR Strengthens Portfolio with David Lloyd Clubs launch of BLAZE Birmingham

Europe’s leading health sports and leisure group has selected Edgbaston based PR agency, WPR to deliver the launch of its first stand-alone boutique studio in the UK, BLAZE by David Lloyd Clubs.  WPR, the award-winning PR, social and search agency, will be joining forces with David Lloyd Clubs to bring its new state-of-the-art fitness studio […]

Serviceplan Group Appointed International Lead Agency of Dr. Beckmann

Serviceplan Group Appointed International Lead Agency of Dr. Beckmann

For its repositioning, the Delta Pronatura brand Dr. Beckmann has appointed Serviceplan Group agencies Serviceplan Health & Life, Serviceplan Consulting Group, Serviceplan Design Hamburg, Mediaplus, Mediascale, Plan.Net Performance and Plan.Net Pulse to provide integrated services. The seven Serviceplan agencies will act jointly as Dr. Beckmann’s international lead agency and are tasked with developing a globally […]

Cloetta chooses PHD as its European media agency

Cloetta chooses PHD as its European media agency

PHD Sweden will act as the strategic lead for the Cloetta account, which initially covers five markets – Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway. PHD has been appointed European media agency for all of Cloetta’s brands following a pitch that took place during the fall. The pitch has been operated from Cloetta’s head office […]

Jellyfish acquires Social Life amid continued expansion

Jellyfish acquires Social Life amid continued expansion

Jellyfish, a digital partner to some of the world’s leading brands, is today announcing its acquisition of award-winning creative agency, Social Life. This marks Jellyfish’s first acquisition since receiving investment from French group Fimalac last month, creating a global digital business valued at circa £500m. Co-founded in 2014 by former BBC Radio 1 producers, Laura-May Coope and […]

Wunderman Thompson UK breaks from Christmas convention with its give NO.THING campaign to end Secret Santa waste

Wunderman Thompson UK breaks from Christmas convention with its give NO.THING campaign to end Secret Santa waste

Wunderman Thompson UK is shaking up the way the industry does Christmas this year, with a radical, fun campaign that turns a seasonal workplace tradition completely on its head.  The agency’s total departure from festive conventions sees it reimagining how we should all do that office staple, Secret Santa so that it becomes more sustainable, […]

Ad Agency Finds Salvation This Christmas

Ad Agency Finds Salvation This Christmas

isobel don’t like to blow their own trumpets.  But they do like to dress up as a 50’s brass band to celebrate Christmas.  Each year independent creative agency isobel shoot a tableaux for their agency Christmas card.  This year they have gone back to the glorious post-war era to celebrate and capture the Christmas spirit […]

Chris Peters, Performance Director at Mindshare joins GrowthMinds as Director of Client Growth

Chris Peters, Performance Director at Mindshare joins GrowthMinds as Director of Client Growth

London-based growth hacking agency, GrowthMinds has hired Mindshare senior manager Chris Peters into its newly created role of Director of Client Growth. This hire comes as GrowthMinds are rapidly scaling in their support of startups in the UK. At Mindshare, Chris led accounts for B​ P, Three and scaleups like Dollar Shave Club and Birchbox. […]

VCCP Hires Havas London Creative Directors

VCCP Hires Havas London Creative Directors

VCCP have welcomed Stephen Cross and Simon Connor as Senior Creatives. They join from Havas London where they worked with brands including the British Beer Alliance, Finish and the Department for Education.  Notable work includes campaigns for Green & Blacks, Honda and BBC.  They have hijacked the Bank of England vote for the new £20 […]