Moore Barlow appoints new HR and marketing directors

Katherine Allison and Tom Newman-Young join the firm’s executive leadership team to drive post-merger, people-led growth strategy

Moore Barlow appoints new HR and marketing directors

Top 100 UK law firm Moore Barlow today announced two senior appointments to the firm’s senior leadership team – Katherine Allison, who joins as the firm’s HR Director, and Tom Newman-Young, who joins as the firm’s Marketing Director. A 14-year veteran of the advertising industry, Tom Newman-Young brings significant experience in building and growing major UK and global brands […]

How retailers are inspiring a new generation of DIY enthusiasts

By Joe Wood, Strategy Director, Spark Foundry

How retailers are inspiring a new generation of DIY enthusiasts

Since late March, lockdown has prompted people into a state of domestic introspection. We have each, to one degree or another, been forced to take a good hard look at our own homes. Indeed, according to YouGov, after groceries, DIY is the category in which most people have spent more on since lockdown. With this […]

Digital Marketing Agency Croud Hires iPROSPECT’S Emil Bielski As New UK Managing Director

Digital Marketing Agency Croud Hires iPROSPECT’S Emil Bielski As New UK Managing Director

Global digital marketing agency Croud appoints Emil Bielski, former Chief Strategy Officer at iProspect, as UK Managing Director. This appointment follows the agency’s recent £30m investment deal with LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group. Founded in 2011, Croud provides digital marketing services to some of the world’s leading brands, including IWG, eve sleep, The […]

Parag Vohra joins IPONWEB to build out programmatic offering for brands, agencies and publishers

New role to drive commercial opportunities and product strategy as programmatic needs of advertising principals become increasingly sophisticated

Parag Vohra joins IPONWEB to build out programmatic offering for brands, agencies and publishers

IPONWEB, an industry pioneer and world leader in the development of advanced advertising platforms and infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Parag Vohra as Vice President of Principal Partnerships for its Global Solutions Group.   Based in New York, Vohra will develop strategies to acquire, grow and retain IPONWEB’s brand, agency and publisher clients – […]

Fair & Lovely, a name change that is only skin deep.

By Uttara Masting who as Group Strategy Director has spent 20 years in the industry working in Marketing and Advertising. The views expressed here are her own.

Fair & Lovely, a name change that is only skin deep.

Discrimination based on the colour of one’s skin has been prevalent in India for thousands of years. Its evil roots buried deep in the ancient Caste system, an abhorrent (and banned) practise that enables some to live a life of privilege and others to live out their days on the poverty line. The name for […]

Brand Responses To Black Lives Matter

By Freddie Sheridan who is Director at Sheridan&Co.

Brand Responses To Black Lives Matter

Following the murder of George Floyd at the end of May by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck, and ignored his pleas that he could not breathe, protests around the world have erupted against police violence towards black citizens. Millions of people have come together in marches to show support for the […]

Sam Hawkey Named New CEO Of Saatchi & Saatchi London

Sam Hawkey Named New CEO Of Saatchi & Saatchi London

Saatchi & Saatchi has appointed Sam Hawkey as the new CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi London. Hawkey takes up his role today as the agency opens the doors of its Chancery Lane headquarters.  The office re-opens for a limited number of employees, with a booking system and social distancing measures in place, for the first time […]

Merkle creates new role to drive integration across media and CRM

Niyi Duro-Emanuel appointed to help clients bring adtech, martech and data capabilities together

Merkle creates new role to drive integration across media and CRM

Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency and part of Dentsu Aegis Network, has appointed Niyi Duro-Emanuel to the newly created and expanded role of vice president, Solutions across Merkle UK. The new role responds to the shift that organisations are making to integrate their customer strategy, technology stack and organisational approach to deliver […]

FAB Provides much needed Cheer with The 22nd FAB Awards Winners Show on YouTube

FAB Provides much needed Cheer with The 22nd FAB Awards Winners Show on YouTube

The FAB Awards provided a bit of much needed cheer this week with the 22nd Edition of their Awards streamed “online” due to the Covid situation. The beautiful and exclusive Hurlingham Club in London was swapped for a “virtual” Awards Presentation streamed exclusively on YouTube in honour of the Finalists and Winners of The 22nd FAB Awards! FAB extended and […]

Burger King win The YouTube FAB Brand / Marketer Award at The 22nd FAB Awards

Burger King win The YouTube FAB Brand / Marketer Award at The 22nd FAB Awards

Burger King have been named The YouTube FAB Brand / Marketer of The Year at the 22nd edition of the International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards (The FAB Awards), bagging an impressive 4 x Gold FAB Awards and 2 x FABulous ( Best in Show ) Trophies at The Awards The calculations included the brand’s performance at both the […]