After winning the Grand Prix in last year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, India’s first transgender band, the Brooke Bond Red Label 6-Pack Band set the stage ablaze, with their live concert during this year’s festival. Performing for an international audience encompassing some of the biggest names in entertainment, media and advertising in the […]
Mindshare, the global media agency of WPP, recently announced that it is placing its FAST (Future Adaptive Specialist Team) integrated performance unit at the heart of its business as part of an ongoing transformation programme evolving the agency into an Adaptive Marketing organisation, to help clients do the same. We had a chance to sit […]
Mindshare, the global media agency network that is part of WPP, has been named the Agency Network of the Year at the Festival of Media Asia Pacific Awards 2016. The agency won 12 awards across multiple categories, markets and clients in the regional competition, and took home the most Gold trophies on the night: Best […]
Mindshare South Africa, the global media agency network that is part of WPP, has appointed Thabang Ramogase as its CEO. Thabang has over twenty years’ experience working in the marketing industry. He started his career at Merill Lynch, moving to companies such as the SABC, Coca-Cola, and MTN. In 2003 he founded and was the […]
Mindshare, the global media agency network that is part of WPP, has ended the year with the top awards across the most respected awards ceremonies globally. The agency’s 2015 roll call of success includes: Media Agency of the Year – Cristal Festival Media Network of the Year – Campaign Asia Pacific China, India, South Asia, […]
The Post Office reveals the return of Simon Bird in its new Christmas campaign ‘Christmas. Sorted’ with a new TVC due on air 5 December, launching in prime time across all major stations. Directed by Agustin Alberdi of Stink and created by DLKW Lowe, the 30 second TVC is supported by 40 and 20 second […]
Another big media review has reached its conclusion, with packaged-goods giant General Mills selecting Mindshare as its new US partner. “Our new partnership with Mindshare in the US will help us advance our ‘consumer-first’ approach to growing our brands,” said Jackie Woodward, VP, global media and connections platforms at General Mills. “Their engagement, insights and […]
Volvo has created a 90-second video that’s exclusively playing in movie theatres and allows viewers to collectively interact with the ad through their body motions. Created in partnership with technology company Audience Entertainment, the ad is currently airing in 100 Screenvision theaters and promotes Volvo’s new XC90 model. The move is the car brand’s latest […]
Ashutosh Srivastava, chairman Asia and CEO emerging markets group Mindshare, has added the Middle East and Africa to his remit. The change comes as Helen McRae is appointed Mindshare UK CEO, a role she will combine with her responsibility as chair of Mindshare Western Europe, representing Europe on the GroupM Europe board. McRae’s Africa responsibilities […]
The Post Office has collaborated with Absolute Radio and Mindshare UK to launch an interactive digital campaign to help fly a loved one home for Christmas. The campaign is set to run across Post Office and Absolute Radio’s online properties and social media channels and will encourage people to submit details of the country their […]