The Ketchum and Pleon public relations firms will merge. Both are part of the Omnicom Group. The new entity, to be called Ketchum (Ketchum Pleon in the United Kingdom), will employ 2,000 people in 103 offices across 66 nations. Ketchum CEO Raymond Kotcher will run the new group from New York, and Pleon CEO Timo [...]
Continue reading...15. June 2009
Manhattan ad agency The Horn Corp. is offering free office space to unemployed advertising pros looking for work. Each day a small crowd of grateful people works out of their office on their laptops, sending out resumes. The job-searchers have formed a small community, helping each other chase down job leads. Agency honcho Ariel Horn [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2009
Most of BBDO Detroit’s remaining 450 employees will take a mandatory two-week unpaid furlough this month. The ad agency is characterizing the time off as both a “furlough” and an “unpaid vacation.” Twenty-five employees will continue to work, to support BBDO North America accounts; they will also be furloughed for a week. Many of those [...]
Continue reading...11. June 2009
Manhattan-based BBDO says it never employed terror attack suspect James W. von Brunn, despite the man’s claims he worked for the ad agency as a copywriter and assistant art director. Von Brunn opened fire in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC yesterday, killing a security guard. He was charged in federal court [...]
Continue reading...10. June 2009
Mullen has brought on Alex Leikikh, formerly a group account director at Fallon, as managing partner, director of account service. The position was created for Leikikh, who becomes the tenth member of Mullen’s executive committee. At Minneapolis’ Fallon, Leikikh worked on United Airlines and BMW. Just a week ago, Mullen moved its headquarters from an [...]
Continue reading...9. June 2009
Draftfcb, one of the world’s largest marketing communications agencies, has been recognized as the best large company to work for in the state by The Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, the Illinois Chapter of the Society of Human Resource Managers and The Business Ledger. It’s the agency’s second year on the “Best Companies to Work [...]
Continue reading...8. June 2009
AOL has hired Jeff Levick away from Google. He will be head of global advertising and strategy. Levick replaces Greg Coleman, formerly of Yahoo. Coleman lasted three months — he replaced Lynda Clarizio. Levick was most recently Google’s veep of industry development and marketing, the Americas. He was with the search engine juggernaut for eight [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2009
Scott Sorokin, former president of Aegis Group’s Carat USA, will join the WPP Group’s MindShare as global head of digital. Sorokin will work in New York, and report to Mindshare worldwide CEO Dominic Proctor in London. He will lead global digital media initiatives for client Unilever, and develop a digital strategy firmwide. Sorokin was president [...]
Continue reading...4. June 2009
Dutch ad agency Darling has launched an office in New York City. Darling Advertising & Design launches with 20 staff and six clients. Jeroen Bours will act as chief executive; Avi Dan as president; and David Hale as CCO. Bours, 47, was previously at CCO at Hill, Holliday in New York. From the Darling website: [...]
Continue reading...3. June 2009
London-based ad agency Lowe Worldwide has offered its global CEO position to former Fallon International president Michael Wall. Talks are in advanced stages, but the hire has not been finalized. Wall quit as CEO of BBDO Portugal in March. He held the top job there for a year. He was one of five founding partners [...]
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16. June 2009
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