M&C Saatchi and CAFOD Illustrate the Impact of War on Families in Hard Hitting Campaign

M&C Saatchi and CAFOD Illustrate the Impact of War on Families in Hard Hitting Campaign

M&C Saatchi has created a hard-hitting awareness campaign for the Catholic Aid Agency for England and Wales (CAFOD), emphasising the tragic loss that families have endured throughout the Syrian conflict. Running from 27th January, the campaign, entitled Lost Family Portraits, sees families from the Syrian refugee crisis pictured in the classic family photo style. However, […]

SimilarWeb: 64.5 Per Cent of UK Retail Traffic from Mobile in 2015

SimilarWeb: 64.5 Per Cent of UK Retail Traffic from Mobile in 2015

64.5 per cent of visits to online retail sites in the UK in 2015, came from mobile phones, according to a report from SimilarWeb. Mobile maintained the majority share of visits across all of the top UK retail sites. Perhaps surprisingly, the sites with the largest mobile share weren’t those for pureplay online retailers Amazon (64 per cent) or eBay (59 per […]

NABS to challenge adland through industry-wide cycling event ‘Ride Adland’ to promote wellbeing and raise vital funds

NABS to challenge adland through industry-wide cycling event ‘Ride Adland’ to promote wellbeing and raise vital funds

NABS (National Advertising Benevolent Society) has announced that it will be launching a brand new sporting fundraiser, ‘Ride Adland’, in October 2016, inviting teams across advertising and media to take part in a cross industry cycling event. The new event has been introduced to align with NABS’ focus wellbeing and community in our industry. Ride […]

Omobono London Continues to Grow, with Four New Hires

Omobono London Continues to Grow, with Four New Hires

Omobono London has announced the appointment of four new team members, highlighting the agency’s progressive growth following its launch last year. Joining the London team will be: Melanie Giles, Senior Strategist; Ying Mak, Strategist; Jo Coles, Client Director and Jessica Brunt, Project Manager. Coming from a senior (EMEA) role across internal and external communications for […]

RPM promotes Tim Jones to Creative Director

RPM promotes Tim Jones to Creative Director

Creative marketing agency RPM has announced the promotion of Tim Jones to the role of Creative Director. Jones has been at RPM for eight years in which time he has been responsible for award-winning campaigns across brand comms, Enhanced-Shopper Experience and Experience-First Platforms. His new role is to lead RPM’s creative department into the agency’s […]

Elmwood Brews Up New Identity For London Beer Lab

Elmwood Brews Up New Identity For London Beer Lab

As London Beer Lab establishes itself as a new challenger brand in the craft beer sector, global brand design consultancy, Elmwood, has created an innovative label identity for the open-source brewery. London Beer Lab joins a host of brands in Elmwood’s growing beer portfolio boasting global giants alongside microbreweries. The Brixton based brewery, known for […]

Karmarama hires Jamie Toward as Managing Partner for Content

Karmarama hires Jamie Toward as Managing Partner for Content

Karmarama has appointed Jamie Toward as Managing Partner for Content. He joins Karmarama from MEC where he was Head of Content. Reporting to Jon Wilkins, Karmarama’s Executive Chairman, Toward will lead data-driven content, an ongoing growth area for the agency. Karmarama has a strong heritage in content strategy and creative, and through its production company Kream, […]

JCDecaux Launches London Based Digital Creative Hub ‘JCDecaux Dynamic’

JCDecaux Launches London Based Digital Creative Hub ‘JCDecaux Dynamic’

JCDecaux, the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces the launch of its London based digital creative hub ‘JCDecaux Dynamic’ with the appointment of BBH’s Alex Matthews and Rick Burgess. JCDecaux Dynamic will focus on the creative side of digital content and technical creativity for out-of-home enabling JCDecaux’s clients to deliver contextually aware advertising and […]

Stack hires James Champ to fill top planning role

Stack hires James Champ to fill top planning role

Stack has appointed James Champ to the role of planning director. Champ joins Stack, part of the MSQ Partners group of agencies, to lead the agency’s planning department and to boost its strategic offer across all clients. Previously the planning director at Rapier, Champ was also the planning director at The Communications Agency and the […]