Proctor and Gamble has been asked to pull an advertisement featuring Taylor Swift for CoverGirl on a print ad for NatureLuxe Mousse Mascara by the United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority. The Advertising Standards Authority is a regulatory commission that oversees and governs advertising in England. The Advertising Standards Authority claims that the advertisement included Photoshop [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 25, 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...Thursday, August 20, 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...Wednesday, August 19, 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...Tuesday, August 18, 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...Monday, July 27, 2009
Mike Goldwater, a consultant to Taxi Media, has been brought on board full-time as the firm’s marketing director. He was previously client services director at The Marketing Machine/Orchestra, and group head of creative services at Conrad Advertising. London’s Taxi Media represents over 12,000 taxis in the advertising market in the United Kingdom. It was owned [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 6, 2009
Kate Howe has been hired as the new president of Draftfcb London as of July 6th. Howe joins the London office along with Mark Fiddes, Executive Creative Director; Simon Calvert, Head of Creative Business Solutions; and Mark Young, COO/CFO. Howe joins from marketing agency Nitro. Previously, she was group marketing director at Gala Coral Group, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Wieden + Kennedy, London will open a new unit called Platform, which will act as a think tank to help clients with creative work not related to advertising or marketing. The new unit seeks to hire computer programmers, fashion designers, engineers, anthropologists, artists and others. Platform, which launches in September, already had two unnamed clients. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 29, 2009
Redmond, Washington-based software giant Microsoft will sell its digital advertising agency, Razorfish, part of Microsoft Advertising. Razorfish has been valued at up to $700 million, based on its sales and profit margins for fiscal 2008. Publicis, a French marketing company, is the potential buyer. Headquartered in Seattle, Razorfish is one of the largest digital agencies, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 19, 2009
The UK’s Beattie McGuinness Bungay is bringing on Neil Powell, former chief creative officer of Margeottes Fertitta Powell, to head its new New York office as a stakeholder. A graphic designer, Powell was most recently head of We Are Gigantic, a merger of Margeotes Fertitta Powell and Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners. He ran his own [...]
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