The creator of Blue Monday is in the Canary Islands replying to tweets from all over the world with the hashtag #BlueMonday. And bombarding social media with relevant and revitalising #STOPBlueMonday messages. Because January 18 is the saddest day of the year, the Canary Islands, in partnership with DEC BBDO, launches a social dayketing initiative without precedent. […]
BMB has boosted its senior team and strategy offering by promoting Tamsin Northridge to the role of head of planning. Northridge, who was previously planning director at BMB, will lead strategy and planning across all BMB clients, including Yorkshire Tea, Dairylea and Homebase. Northridge takes over the day-to-day running of the planning department from planning […]
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced that Jae Goodman and Josh Rabinowitz will lead juries at Lions Entertainment, the new specialist event where brands, agencies and entertainment companies can focus on producing outstanding creative work together. Jae Goodman, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Head, CAA Marketing, a division of leading entertainment and sports […]
Cheil London has appointed Caitlin Ryan as the agency’s new Executive Creative Director. Ryan, the former Group Executive Creative Director at Karmarama, will oversee Cheil London’s creative output across all clients. She will report to Paul Hammersley, the Group Chief Executive. Ryan first joined Karmarama in 2013 as Group ECD. Prior to that she was […]
MEC has hired Matt Davies as its managing director of Content, Sarah Hennessy, the agency’s managing director announced on January 14. Matt’s appointment reflects the scale of the opportunity that digital content creation and deployment creates for brands across categories. He will be responsible for leading the evolution of MEC’s content offering, to ensure it […]
In line with Cheil’s expansion plans, Cheil Singapore has hired Fredrik Englund to take on the role as Regional Creative Director. Prior to joining Cheil Singapore, Fredrik was at Dentsu Mobius where he served as Regional Creative Director for three years. During his time at Dentsu Mobius, Fredrik established the regional digital creative vision for […]
Blippar, the image recognition and augmented reality app, has created a fitting tribute to David Bowie. It is encouraging Bowie fans to download the Blippar app to create a selfie of themselves as Ziggy Stardust. Users simply ‘blipp’ the iconic image of Bowie as Ziggy Stardust or the mural of Bowie in Brixton to add […]
OLIVER Group announced three new senior promotions with immediate effect as it expands its unique experience planning discipline: Mark Bell to chief experience officer for OLIVER Group, and John Gibbard and Roz Thomas to co-heads of experience planning at digital agency DARE. Mark Bell was previously planning partner at DARE, responsible for the agency’s strategic […]
Havas helia is strengthening its senior leadership with the appointment of Louise Whitcombe, current COO at LIDA, as Group Managing Director. Whitcombe will lead the helia Group agencies across London and Cirencester. Whitcombe started her career at GGT Direct before senior leadership roles at Lowe and DraftFcb. She became Deputy Managing Director at LIDA before […]
DDB Group Worldwide has appointed Joji Jacob, Group Executive Creative Director, DDB Group Singapore as Head of DDB Asia’s Creative Council. In addition to his creative remit covering Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Korea, Joji will also take care of India working closely with Sonal Dabral, Chief Creative Officer of DDB Mudra. “DDB is one […]