Havas Group Media has tapped Bret Leece as its new Global Chief Data & Innovation Officer. Based in New York, Leece’s appointment to the newly created global role is effective immediately. Leece’s remit is to build useful data products and services, providing platforms for planning and buying of meaningful media. In this new role, Leece […]
We Are Social, the socially-led creative agency network, has opened a new office in Hong Kong to further consolidate its global presence. The move follows the agency opening a Madrid office in September and acquiring a majority stake in Dubai-based agency Socialize earlier in 2018. Since launching the first Asia-Pacific We Are Social office in […]
Beano Studios is launching Beano for Brands, a kid-first consultancy for brands wanting to engage with older kids, Generation Alpha and their parents. Beano for Brands will solve client briefs using unrivalled kids’ insight and market testing gleaned from exclusive qualitative and online research, content creation, and brand partnerships across the multichannel Beano portfolio or […]
Jonathan Mildenhall, former CMO of Airbnb, announced the launch of his brand and marketing consultancy TwentyFirstCenturyBrand along with co-founders, Alexandra Dimiziani, also a former Airbnb marketer, and Neil Barrie, former chief strategy officer at TBWA/Chiat/Day. TwentyFirstCenturyBrand is already working with high profile clients such as Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, Sean Parker’s Airtime, Pinterest with Ben […]
Vision7 International (V7) a subsidiary of BlueFocus International (BFI) announced it has acquired award-winning San Francisco-based creative agency, Eleven. The deal further expands the V7 family of creative, results driven agencies in North America, and it represents the organization’s first major advertising brand in the U.S. Eleven, which was named to Advertising Age’s “Small Agency […]
One of the leading personalities in the travel market has joined M3 as part of its ambitious plans to double accounts in this sector. The West Midlands full service advertising agency, which has offices in Birmingham, Oxford Circus in London and Wolverhampton, has appointed John Donnelly as Non-Executive Director to build on more than £1.5m […]
AKQA has been recognised with the highest scores possible in the Customer experience strategy services, Experience Design Services, Vision and road map, Client co-innovation strategy, Market and thought leadership, and Partner strategy criteria in The Forrester Wave: Midsize Digital Experience Agencies, Q4 2018 report. AKQA also received the highest score possible in the active digital […]
UK-based hair styling accessory company HairFlair Ltd has appointed Air Paris to work on the branding for its family of brands that include the bestselling Curlformers. This follows a process run through Creativebrief. Established in 2007, Hair Flair’s Curlformers brand is a bestselling product that creates healthy, easy curls without causing heat damage. They see […]
Carluccio’s, the Italian high street restaurant business, announced a substantial digital overhaul that will extend the unique Italian food brand online. Partnering with BigCommerce, the leading eCommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands, Carluccio’s relaunched website brings together for the first time rich content and online shopping in a single web experience. The website, hosted on […]
London-based creative practise BUREAU has been appointed by heritage jeans brand Lee Cooper to research the denim market and develop their brand positioning. The agency has been tasked with an initial phase of research, using quantitative insight and dynamic social data, to understand the global jeans wearer of today: not only what they wear but […]