Paul Banham joins the London office of JWT as digital creative director, replacing Fernanda Romano. Banham has held senior creative positions at agencies including Archibald Ingall Stretton, Agency.com, and WCRS. With a history stretching back to 1864, JWT (formerly J. Walter Thompson) is one of the world’s largest advertising and communications companies. It is one [...]
Continue reading...24. August 2009
RPMC has announced that Michael Birkin, former Vice Chairman of Omnicom Group and CEO of Omnicom Asia-Pacific, has taken a majority position in the privately held company, effective immediately. Birkin will hold the title of partner at RPMC, and will oversee its expansion in the marketing services and consulting sector. He will found a New [...]
Continue reading...21. August 2009
Miami-based multicultural marketing firm MGSCOMM is merging with New York’s Reynardus & Moya. The expanded MGSCOMM executive management team, led by co-founders Manuel E. Machado, CEO, and Al Garcia-Serra, COO, now includes Jorge Reynardus as chief revenue officer and Jorge Moya as chief creative officer. Joining the MGSCOMM client roster are ITT Technical Institute, Wyeth, [...]
Continue reading...20. August 2009
Advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty will lay off 10% of its staff in the United Kingdom. The firm blames the decline in ad spending. The redundancies will target 40 people at the firm’s 400-person London office. Earlier this year, the agency slashed salaries by 3.5%. BBH counts British Airways, Barclays Bank and Audi amongst its [...]
Continue reading...19. August 2009
New York City’s James Group will merge with Belfast, UK’s Spirit Marketing Group. The merger marks a change in ownership from James Group founder James Connor, to Paul Blakely and Enda McShane. Blakely was formerly a creative director at The James Group. Enda McShane owns Spirit Marketing Group, which has four offices in the United [...]
Continue reading...18. August 2009
Oliver Payne, formerly of Saatchi & Saatchi and OgilvyOne, has founded a new London agency called The Hunting Dynasty, to provide advertising exclusively for clients with sustainable or green products and services. Oliver brings 15 years of digital and advertising agency experience from the “wrong side of the fence’” on BP, P&G, Cisco, Ford, IBM, [...]
Continue reading...17. August 2009
Todd Smith joins Logic Media Group from Affinion Group, as a partner and as president and chief communications officer. He will lead new business development for DSMI. The firm will re-brand itself as Deane Smith Media Innovations. Founder Silas Deane will be chairman and chief executive officer. Nashville, Tennessee’s Logic Media Group, now Deane Smith [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2009
Fahlgren CEO Steve Drongowski will step down at the end of the year; newly elected chairman Neil Mortine replaces him. Drongowski was with the firm for a quarter-century. He will remain with the agency through 2010 as a consultant. Mortine is president of the company’s Fahlgren Mortine Public Relations division. Founded in 1962, Fahlgren is [...]
Continue reading...13. August 2009
aQuantive, now called Microsoft Advertising, has lost its CEO Brian McAndrews to Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group. Madrona brought on McAndrews as a managing director. McAndrews built up aQuantive and led it through 15 acquisitions, before selling it to Microsoft for $6 billion in 2007. He was senior vice president of Microsoft’s Advertising & Publisher Solutions [...]
Continue reading...12. August 2009
Perry Fair has joined Grey New York as a Creative Director. Since 2008, Fair ran his own consultancy, Crush&Destroy, in collaboration with Sabertooth of Venice, California. He was previously Creative Director on the Nissan account at TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles. He has also worked on Nike, Gatorade, Coca Cola and Target. At Burrell Communications in Chicago, [...]
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25. August 2009
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