Mindshare, part of WPP, has won the media planning and buying account for Yorkshire Building Society Group, following a successive run of new business wins. The account will be worth an estimated £6 million in billings to Mindshare’s business. The financial institution, headquartered in Bradford, appointed Mindshare with the aim of driving long-term business growth over the next 5 years and bringing to life its brand positioning as part of its communications planning. Mindshare’s newly launched DX tool played a crucial role […]
Global brand experience agency Sense, which has offices in London and New York, has revised the roles of its leadership team to accommodate the rise in briefs coming from outside the UK and position itself for further international growth. The move comes in the wake of Sense’s increasing success and a very strong global business […]
Mr B & Friends have completed work on a new brand identity and website for fast-growing regional broadband provider Truespeed. Based in the South West, Truespeed has charted an impressive course since 2016 having celebrated connecting its 2000th household earlier this year. The company provides full fibre connections to rural premises – 12 per cent […]
McCann Worldgroup in the UK announced the promotion of Sheryl Marjoram to CEO, McCann London. She takes over from Alex Lubar – CEO of the London office since January 2016 – who transitions to a senior regional leadership role in the global agency network as President McCann Worldgroup, Asia Pacific. Marjoram joined the agency in June 2017 in the newly created […]
Blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan has launched a new film to increase the public’s understanding of the lifesaving work it does, and drive financial support. The film called ‘Without You’ tells the story of a young woman looking for someone special – a stem cell donor. The campaign created by DRUM, Omnicom Media Group UK’s […]
In just the three years since launch, Seedlip has not only taken the drinks world by storm, but has established new behaviour and norms within drinking culture. Seedlip’s success as an undisputed lifestyle leader continues to challenge the previous boundaries of the beverage industry and most recently Claire Warner, Managing Director of Æcorn Aperitifs, partnered […]
Byte, the marketing technology agency has, together with the Barbican, created a chatbot to provoke conversations around the role of AI in society. The Facebook Messenger chatbot supports AI: More than Human exhibition which runs 16 May to 26 August and is part of the Barbican’s Life Rewired – a season exploring what it means to be human […]
Paddy Power launched their latest campaign, “EU-Revision”. Presented by Irish music mogul and talent judge Louis Walsh (X-Factor, Britain’s Got Talent), it aims to get people across Europe to vote for the UK in this Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest as revenge for Brexit. Why? Because if the UK wins, they’ll have to host the contest, […]
Manchester creative agency, LOVE, has unveiled its first packaging design for BrewDog since signing its innovative equity partnership deal with the brand earlier in 2019. The partnership sees LOVE acknowledging the fast-moving, start-up nature of BrewDog by taking equity in return for reducing agency fees on all design work across the brand’s spirit business – […]
Building on a long-standing agency-brand relationship, B&B Studio has created a fresh look and feel for Peppersmith, celebrating the natural ingredients and strong flavours of each product in the brand’s range of gum and mints. Since B&B created the original Peppersmith brand as a challenger to the mainstream gum category back in 2010, category and […]
