Next Fifteen Communications Group, a $115 million PR Services Group, today unveiled Beyond, its new digital media consultancy. The move coincides with the announcement of its most recent investment, the acquisition of Type3, a 20 person digital agency with offices in San Francisco and London. Type3 is being merged with the research and analytics capabilities [...]
Continue reading...3. September 2010
Redstone, an Omaha based advertising agency, has promoted two team members and added another to its online media department. In today’s press release at PR.com, Claudia Martin, Redstone President and Media Director was quoted as saying: “We think Redstone can bring a mostly unique perspective to online advertising that combines our very-real talents in producing, [...]
Continue reading...30. August 2010
Marty Cooke, a highly regarded individual in the creative and marketing worlds, is joining Global marketing agency RAPP as U.S. Chief Creative Officer. According to the August 30th press release at PR Newswire, Bob Horvath, Global CEO of RAPP was quoted as saying: “Great creative thinking is the final piece of the puzzle in our [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2010
Heat, a full-service advertising agency located in San Francisco, has added an in-house “Communications Planning and Media” department – a function that had previously been outsourced. Brad Ziff will be the director of the department. Ziff was formerly media director for all accounts at TDA Advertising & Design in Boulder, Colorado. According to the August 24th article [...]
Continue reading...2. August 2010
Britain-based ad agency WPP PLC announced it is bringing 100 jobs to Orange County through an agreement with Mazda North American Operations based in Irvine. WPP PLC plans to open a new agency, Team Mazda, by October, the Orange County Business Journal reports. Open positions will include human resources, creative staff and account executives. About half [...]
Continue reading...23. March 2010
Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations and communications consultancy, has appointed Christine Jones as regional managing director for Asia-Pacific. Jones is a senior communications executive with 25 years of experience working in several markets including Australia, Europe and Asia. A recognized expert in pharmaceuticals, consumer health, consumer goods, as well as issues and crisis management, Jones [...]
Continue reading...28. December 2009
Between the start of the recession in December, 2007, and the most recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which cover up to October, 2009, the advertising industry lost a little over 26,000 jobs. That’s approximately 14% of all positions in advertising agencies nationwide. Between January and October of 2009, 8% of all agency [...]
Continue reading...25. August 2009
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...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, [...]
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9. September 2010
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