Shazam are extremely excited to welcome Alexis Rodriguez as their new Head of Global Marketing Solutions. Based in Shazam’s NYC office and reporting to CRO Greg Glenday, Alexis will oversee the Integrated Marketing, Partner Marketing and Creative Services teams. Alexis Rodriguez is an accomplished creative executive with over 20 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience […]
J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam were the toast of the Marketing and Communications Industry in 2016, greatly thanks to projects such as ‘The Next Rembrandt’ that helped bag them the Innovative Agency of the Year prize at the Cannes Lions Festival last year. A year on, we got a chance to sit down with the Creative […]
Meet the top 50 marketers who foster a human-first approach to marketing. A new report analyses marketers who adopt the ‘think human’ strategy to emotionally connect with their customers. The research, conducted by Communicator agency, ranked marketers on ten different criteria including trust, creative risk taking, empathy and emotional intelligence, and humour. To establish the […]
TBWA\Dublin strengthens its senior creative team with the appointment of John Kilkenny. In his new role as Creative Director, Kilkenny will be working closely with clients and driving forth the creative output of the agency. The move is part of the agency’s expansion, which saw it welcome a new Director of Social Media & Content, […]
In his new role as Head of Business Development at the Plan.Net Group, Jens Goldmann is now moving strategic development and positioning of the Plan.Net brand forward and also expanding the digital agency’s base of both old and new customers. He will also strengthen and extend the internal structures to create an even closer integration […]
Business advisory firm, Deloitte, has continued to strengthen its Scottish digital offering with the appointment of a new leadership team at its Edinburgh HQ. Both Gareth Edwards and Debbi McLean have made the move to Deloitte Digital from Royal Bank of Scotland. Gareth, who has more than 16 years’ experience in digital, has joined the […]
Kerry Foods announced the appointment of Nick Robinson as Chief Marketing Officer. Nick will be responsible for Kerry Foods brands in the UK and Ireland which include household names, from Cheestrings, Yollies, Denny and Dairygold to Mattessons, Wall’s and Richmond sausages. Nick joins Kerry Foods from AB InBev where he was Marketing Director for the […]
Mindshare is placing its FAST (Future Adaptive Specialist Team) integrated performance unit at the heart of its business going forward. According to the agency, FAST is an integrated service that joins together with traditional media planning and buying services, enabling maximum efficiency in driving insights, targeting, allocating investment, activating and optimising across all media. To […]
Standing in other people’s shoes is crucial to effective communications, yet technology and AI are changing our world at a continually accelerating pace. And so, at an event in central London recently, creative direct marketing agency Soul asked applied futurist and author Tom Cheesewright what he thinks the world will look like in five, ten or 20 years […]
Havas Group announced the appointment of Sarah Treliving as Managing Director of Arena Media. She will be responsible for managing the UK team, with a focus on client leadership, commercial and new business growth, and talent management. Treliving joins from her role as Managing Partner, Head of Digital, at Mediacom where she worked across brands […]