Drum, Omnicom Media Group UK’s creative and content agency, has been appointed as creative agency for blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan in a competitive three-way pitch. The review was run through Creativebrief. The UK based charity, which recently launched its ‘Be A Lifesaver’ campaign encouraging young men to join the stem cell donor register, is […]
smp, the shopper marketing agency, has been directly appointed as the UK lead social media agency for The Citizen’s Foundation UK. The Citizen’s Foundation is in the top five largest charities in Pakistan, helping give underprivileged children access to education in Pakistan, building over 1482 schools, and educating over 220,000 children in the past 22 […]
Tug, the international Digital Performance Marketing agency, announced the appointment of Trefor ‘Tom’ Thomas to the role of Global Chief Creative Officer, reporting into Nick Beck, Tug Founder and CEO. Thomas is another key hire for Tug who have been aggressively expanding the team in 2018, including Eoin O’Neill’s promotion to CTO, where he is focusing […]
Barefoot Proximity, the Cincinnati office within the Proximity network, has announced two senior appointments to support its business transformation within North America. Margarita Fitzpatrick joins as Vice President, Client Partnership and Liz Martin joins as Senior Vice President, Global Digital Client Services lead. Both will start immediately and will report directly into Barefoot Proximity CEO, […]
Mattie Yaco has returned to AKQA as Director of Production, based in the DC studio and will oversee the entire project management department. Mattie will report directly to Rachel Barek, General Manager and will join the leadership team. Mattie has over 10 years of extensive digital experience as a client partner, and team leader envisioning, […]
Auchan Retail France has just entrusted its global communication strategy to Serviceplan France, a member of Europe’s leading independent communications group, Serviceplan Group. This decision was made in the wake of a call for tenders from agencies, orchestrated by Pitchville, which pitched Serviceplan against outgoing agency CLM BBDO, as well as Sid Lee, La Chose, […]
WPP’s VML London is evolving and expanding with the appointment of R/GA London’s client services director, Marcus Keith, for a newly created head of client engagement role. As head of client engagement, Keith will take responsibility for best practices across the agency’s client roster, including Colgate-Palmolive, PepsiCo, Ford, Nestlé, Bridgestone and the International Olympic Committee. […]
Brilliant Basics – Infosys’ customer-centric digital transformation studio – has hired digital pioneer Richard Hartley to launch a network of innovation labs as part of a major expansion across Europe and Middle East. Hartley, a former senior emerging technologist at WPP’s Wunderman and Jaguar Land Rover’s Spark 44, will be Brilliant Basics’ first Head of […]
The European online payments provider Trustly as appointed Weber Shandwick as its communications agency in a process run through Creativebrief. The ambition with the new partnership is to strengthen Trustly’s position as a leading European online banking payments company. Weber Shandwick’s assignment includes strategic, operational and creative communication to help chart Trustly’s growth across a […]
Independent agency Creativeland Asia (CLA) and Rana Barua have decided to part ways, The company issued the following official statement post the annual board review. “Following the board review last month, we arrived at a decision to part ways. It was great to have him here and we thank him for the time he has […]