MediaCom North Scoops Four At The UK Social Media Communications Awards

MediaCom North Scoops Four At The UK Social Media Communications Awards

MediaCom North has scooped four awards at this year’s UK Social Media Comms Awards, including both the Low Budget and High Budget Campaign categories. The content and connections agency, which is the biggest billing agency outside of London, took two golds for its work with leading fashion house Missguided. Its ‘Naughty List’ campaign, which starred […]

A Lidl Flavour To Savour Lidl’s Latest Advert Focuses on Wine Provenance and Quality to Win Over Wine-Sceptics

A Lidl Flavour To Savour Lidl’s Latest Advert Focuses on Wine Provenance and Quality to Win Over Wine-Sceptics

Lidl UK premieres the latest advert in its #LidlSurprises campaign which will focus on telling the quality, provenance and price story behind its wine range. Created by TBWA\London, the new advert makes its debut tonight at 19:15 during Emmerdale, and on 20th October during the ad break in Cold Feet at 21.30, reaching an estimated 12 […]

Audi Unleashes Tactical, Data-Driven Roadside Campaign to Promote Intelligent and Intuitive Car Technology

Audi Unleashes Tactical, Data-Driven Roadside Campaign to Promote Intelligent and Intuitive Car Technology

The award-winning production and creative technology company, Grand Visual, has produced a smart, data-driven digital out of home campaign for Audi UK to enhance the brand’s agility in the digital space and increase awareness of the advanced intelligent technologies available in their latest models. The campaign runs across premium roadside screens on a nationwide scale […]

Twelve Hires Former Geometry Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Partner, Martin Smith

Twelve Hires Former Geometry Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Partner, Martin Smith

Creative agency Twelve, today announces that former Geometry Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Partner, Martin Smith, has been appointed as its new Group Strategy officer. Starting the role in mid-November, Smith will also play a role in exploring opportunities within holding company Communisis’ global client base. Smith has been tasked with overseeing strategic direction and […]

U.K. Industry Fights To Keep Borders Open Post Brexit

U.K. Industry Fights To Keep Borders Open Post Brexit

The Advertising Association and London agency Adam & Eve DDB are campaigning to prevent the British government from cutting off access to international talent with tighter immigration rules post-Brexit. A giant billboard at London’s biggest airport Heathrow has the words “We’re a great advert for Britain” over the images of ten senior industry figures, all of whom […]

Marcoms M&A on the rise in Western Europe

Marcoms M&A on the rise in Western Europe

New research has shown that marcoms agencies in Western Europe (excluding the UK) are becoming increasingly attractive to global buyers, bucking the overall trend of falling deal volumes. A quarter (25%) of all industry M&A deals in Q1-Q3 this year involved targets in the region, compared to only 19% over the same period in 2016, […]

PB Creative boosts its senior team with two new appointments: Creative Director Lloyd Moffat and Client Services Director Anna Amos

PB Creative boosts its senior team with two new appointments:  Creative Director Lloyd Moffat and Client Services Director Anna Amos

Brand design agency PB Creative announces the appointment of Lloyd Moffat as Creative Director and Anna Amos as Client Services Director, further strengthening the agency’s creative delivery and service to clients, and building on its reputation as a world-class studio. Lloyd has many years’ experience working for top design agencies, including JKR, where he worked […]

Chris Hughes joins Topman in launching #DontBottleItUp campaign by BMB for World Mental Health Day

Chris Hughes joins Topman in launching #DontBottleItUp campaign by BMB for World Mental Health Day

BMB is launching a new campaign from the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) that encourages men not to bottle up their feelings, featuring a stunt from Love Island’s Chris Hughes and Topman. Launching on World Mental Health Day, CALM’s new work #DontBottleItUp aims to show men it’s okay to open up rather than bottle up […]

Above+Beyond hires Havas’ Ed Cox to boost connections with audiences

Above+Beyond hires Havas’ Ed Cox to boost connections with audiences

Above+Beyond, the independent creative agency for the audience age, has appointed Ed Cox to the new role of Media Partner. He joins Above+Beyond from Havas, where he is the Managing Director of Forward Media, the agency Havas set up to manage the O2 business. Cox has an extensive background in media, data, and integrated communications as […]