Proximity London has appointed Ronnie Crosbie as head of strategic planning. Charged with leading the agency’s 21-strong planning department, Crosbie will report directly to chief strategy officer Adam Fulford. Crosbie brings over 20 years of industry experience to his new role and joins from Dentsu Aegis Network where he was head of strategic planning, data […]
MarComm’s Star Parade is a series where we shine the spotlight on some of the global stars from the Marketing and Communications industry, and Ben Lambert is someone who has been shining bright in the design word for nearly 20-years now. Ben co-founded award-winning brand design agency PB Creative with Pete Hayes in 2010 after having […]
Global digital creative agency AnalogFolk has appointed experienced service designer Michelle Watson as Executive Director of Customer Experience. In her new position, Watson will be responsible for expanding the company’s efforts in helping brands to improve the way they serve their customers. Building on growing client needs across Nando’s, Scotch and Soda, Blink and Nike, […]
Bankside-based agency George P. Johnson (GPJ) has taken the bold and forward-looking step to bring together its brand experience specialists from Project Management, Digital, Technical Production and Live Event Production into one truly integrated team. Fran Elliott has joined to lead the charge – as the agency’s first Head of Integrated Production. Previously UK Leadership […]
Karen Welman – who co-founded design agency, Pearlfisher – passed away on Monday 24th June aged 59, following a heart attack, whilst on holiday in Greece with family and friends. Karen first met husband-to-be and future co-founding Partner of Pearlfisher, Jonathan Ford, when, fresh out of their respective design colleges, the pair worked for Michael […]
Advertising creatives Steven Bennett-Day and Aaron Howard are launching Few & Far, a new kind of studio that specialises in ideas. Steven Bennett-Day was most recently chief creative officer at Feed. Before joining Feed in 2017, he spent three years as group executive creative director at Havas Helia. It was during this time that he […]
Nadine Young has been promoted to the expanded role of managing director Starcom UK. She will continue to lead the P&G One team but takes on a broadened remit with additional responsibilities across Starcom. Young, who will report to Starcom CEO Mark Howley, originally joined the agency in 2016 to lead the P&G business having joined […]
Ben Golik, Chief Creative Officer at customer agency LIDA, part of M&C Saatchi Group, has created a series of typographic artworks to mark the lead-up to Pride in London on 6 July 2019. The project puts a modern, typographic twist on the iconic Pride rainbow flag colour-way. Each print uses copy to celebrate the individual […]
Ogilvy UK announced two new strategy heads join the business, bolstering strategic leadership and bringing added depth in data, insights and innovation to the agency and its clients. Sarah Blackman, Head of Strategic Innovation and Kate Wheaton, Head of Customer Engagement Strategy will both join Gen Kobayashi, Head of Strategy, Communications, to lead an experienced […]
Mindshare UK, part of WPP, announced the appointment of Kristiina Railo to the role of Head of New Business and Marketing, and Lara Ponniah to the role of Partner for Grow@Mindshare. As Head of New Business and Marketing, Railo will be responsible for taking Mindshare UK’s audience-first proposition to market, and ensuring that the benefits […]