In-house specialist OLIVER UK has been appointed as the lead design agency for Spire Healthcare, a leading private healthcare provider in the UK. Building a bespoke, on-site design team within Spire’s head office at Blackfriars, OLIVER’s remit is to strategically centralise assets and align communications across the brand’s 38 award-winning hospitals nationwide. The agency’s work […]
VIGA, the Next15 data collection agency, will open its doors to school pupils in an interactive Research Taster Day to immerse pupils in the power and potential of market research. Twenty children from Chiswick School aged 14-15 will be taking part in interactive sessions involving quick-fire activities such as surveys with realtime results and live […]
Dentsu Aegis Network is expanding its operations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with the launch of a new office for Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency. In MENA, Merkle will be led by Rudy Banholzer, formerly the managing director of full-service social media agency Your Social prior to its acquisition […]
Craft Spain has appointed Alireza Mohammadian as their new Client Operations Director to lead the agency’s production services and contribute towards improving quality and efficiencies. Alireza is versed in developing and commercializing projects for local and international clients based on his 18 years multidisciplinary experience gained at both agencies as well as advertising companies. His […]
Global socially-led creative agency, We Are Social has appointed Paul Rider to the newly-created role of head of art, with the aim of setting a new standard of excellence for visual work across the agency. Rider rejoins We Are Social, where he formerly worked as senior art director for adidas for nearly four years, following […]
Mindshare, part of WPP, has promoted Ruth Zohrer and Alan Weetch to its leadership team, amid ambitious plans to evolve its planning offer across the UK. Ruth Zohrer, previously Head of Connections Planning at Mindshare, will take on the newly created role of Chief Product Officer. In her new role, she will be responsible for […]
Post-production facility nineteentwenty announces former Big Buoy Co-Founder, Jon Hurst, will join the team as Managing Director. Jon’s new role will see him grow the nineteentwenty business from its London HQ. Jon Joins nineteentwenty following nearly two decades at London-based post-production house, Big Buoy. He first started his advertising career accidentally – and in an […]
J. Walter Thompson Saudi Arabia has retained the Consumer Business Unit (CBU) account for Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and additionally been awarded the operator’s Corporate Account, after a rigorous selection process across multiple international agencies. STC launched an exhaustive communication pitch process in order to identify a communications partner that would support the telco operator […]
Whalar, the influencer marketing company that connects brands with creators, has welcomed two C-Suite hires, Mike Hondorp as Chief Growth Officer in the US and Luke Townsin as Chief Growth Officer in EMEA. In their new roles, Hondorp and Townsin will be responsible for expanding Whalar’s business internationally and across categories to attract new clients. […]
McCann London has bolstered its creative team with a raft of new hires and promotions. Ross Neil joins as new Executive Creative Director. Reputed as one of the UK’s top 20 ECD’s for the last 4 years having run WCRS, Neil will be working alongside McCann London’s CCO’s Rob Doubal and Laurence Thomson to help […]