Seeds&Chips, The Global Food Innovation Summit founded by Marco Gualtieri, has appointed Saatchi & Saatchi to handle its advertising for their next event scheduled in Milan from 7th to 10th of May 2018. Seeds&Chips, now in its fourth year, has become a point of reference within the food industry for food innovation. The yearly summit […]
Expedia, one of the world’s largest full-service travel sites, has awarded Saatchi & Saatchi their global creative account after consolidating all worldwide comms into the network. Jointly managed through Saatchi & Saatchi’s headquarters in London and Saatchi & Saatchi’s Team One office in Los Angeles, the agency will now create all brand advertising campaigns inclusive […]
Acceleris, the multi-award winning communications agency has announced its acquisition of London and Dubai based PR and Communications agency Limelight, in a move which will create a new force in national and international reputation management. The new agency will have offices in London, Harrogate and Dubai and will be in the UK’s Top 20 agencies […]
Creative agency Space has strengthened its creative team with two senior hires to work across the agency’s client portfolio which includes William Grant & Sons, Heineken, Arla Foods, General Mills and Wimbledon. Cat Kempsell, former Creative Group Head at Live & Breathe, and Sam Pepper, former Senior Creative at Wasserman, both join Space as Creative […]
Spark44 has announced the appointment of Ralf Specht as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), elected by the Joint Venture Board of Management. As of 1 January 2018, Mr Specht replaces Steve Woolford as CEO, who is retiring from the business. After a successful career with global automotive brands and communications agencies, Steve developed the Spark44 business […]
As Serviceplan International continue to expand their unique House of Communication model across the globe, making strategic creative and management hires to reflect their increasingly global outlook, Serviceplan China has appointed Chong Kin as Chief Creative Officer Greater China, Marcus Ma as Managing Director Beijing, and Lili Pang as General Manager Shanghai. Chong Kin and […]
Wavemaker, GroupM’s new billion-dollar revenue, media, content and technology agency created from the merger of MEC and Maxus, opens for business on January 9th in the UK. Wavemaker launches in the UK with a team of 700 led by the recently announced new CEO Jason Dormieux, and will service a portfolio of clients including L’Oréal, Vodafone, […]
Above+Beyond has strengthened its creative department with two new hirings – Creatives Ben Gough and Jordan Dale. Gough is a recent runner-up in the 2017 Homespun Yarns short film competition for his film ‘How A Kite Flies’ – a humorous yet heart-warming story of loneliness narrated by Sir Ian McKellen. He has worked as a […]
WPP has appointed Karen Blackett to the newly created position of UK country manager. In an internal memo to staff, Sir Martin Sorrell said Blackett – currently chairwoman of MediaCom UK – will focus on WPP’s core strategic priority of horizontality, ensuring that the group’s companies “work together effectively and present a seamlessly integrated and […]
Sky Vegas, the online casino, has appointed krow to handle its advertising account. krow won the business following a competitive pitch process that also involved BJL, Fallon, and iris. The previous incumbent was mcgarrybowen. The agency’s first task is to create a campaign, breaking in February, to bring the Sky Vegas brand to life and […]