WWAV Rapp Collins has promoted the joint creative director Barney Cockerill and its digital creative director, Rik Haslam, to the newly created roles of joint executive creative directors. Jim Thomas and Chad Warner have joined as joint creative directors. Nick Platt, Cockerill’s partner, becomes the executive creative director of Rapp Collins Los Angeles.
Ft.com has promoted its global online ad director, Rob Grimshaw, to managing director. Grimshaw will take a place on the ft.com board and oversee its commercial performance and overall strategy.
Microsoft is to launch a global brand, called Microsoft Advertising, to house all its ad-related operations. The brand, which was unveiled at Microsoft’s advance08 advertiser and publisher conference this week, aims to simplify the range of advertising businesses run by the software giant.
The Aegis-owned Feather Brooksbank has promoted Andy Niblett to director of trading. Niblett, previously the head of broadcast, will take a place on the agency’s board and be responsible for its media teams in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester.
Brothers and Sisters has appointed Kevin Brown to the new position of digital director. Brown joins from IPC Media, where he was the digital development director at its women’s division IPC Connect.
The funeral of Gail Amber, the former Campaign journalist who died last week aged 62, will take place on Friday 30 May at 1.30pm at Ham Down Woodland Burial Ground, Bee Marsh Farm, Shillingstone, Dorset. Anybody who knew her is welcome to attend. No flowers but donations to the Four Leaf Clover Club, a mental health charity (1 Abbey Road, Sherbourne, Dorset DT9 3LE).
(TrendHunter.com) The Xiomara Coronado Beauty Center wants you to know that ‘Nobody is younger than you,’ as long as you get plastic surgery. To illustrate that, they created these images of what they think famous celebrities would look like without having had these operations.
You get to see what they think Shakira…
Ad Age credits George Parker’s Adscam with the scoop.
One of my many talented spies around the world informs me that the “frat boys” at CP+B just lost their piece of Nike. Seems that the folks at Beaverton were none too happy with the CP+B Boulder outpost. Maybe the dudes spent too much time boarding and biking and not enough time doing Weiden quality work.
Or this: Nike’s account somewhere other than W+K just doesn’t compute. The two companies share DNA.
[via Spike Jones]
YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) — He's worked with divas, mutants and mismatched cops. Now TV, music-video and movie director Brett Ratner is wrangling marketers. The Hollywood heavyweight behind the "Rush Hour" trilogy and "X-Men: The Last Stand" is launching Brett Ratner Brands, a consultancy to help brands infuse entertainment and culturally relevant ideas into their marketing strategies.
Well that was quick.
Well that was quick.
MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — Is Fox's "American Idol" becoming just another sport to follow? Maybe we can blame last night's winner, David Cook, who sometimes wore a Kansas City Royals uniform. "Idol" fans, it seems, have learned to follow the crooner competition like the NBA or NHL or MLB: from a distance, occasionally watching, and then showing up in surprising numbers for the finals.
Have you ever heard of King Midas? To make a long story short, he was a pretty greedy king who wished that whatever he touched would turn to gold. As a result, he ended up starving to death because all the food he touched turned to the valuable metal.
The project by an unknown rebel street artist q…
(TrendHunter.com) What is it about Tetris that even decades after its release, and in the face of high-tech modern gaming innovation, it continues to hold such vast appeal? We’ve seen a range of Tetris-inspired gimmicks submitted on Trendhunter.com, and we’ve hand-picked our favourites for this cluster.
It was inve…
According to our friends at Ad Age, Nike is back home with Wieden. Whilst we’re fans of all involved, something about this says that all is right with the world.
While most of us are thinking of elaborate retail design concept, Ksubi opted for a much simpler, cheaper and earth-friendly shop concept. The cardboard collectors of the Australian fashion label were downright serious when they decided to build The Bombed Mache.
“The Bombed Mache” is Ksubi’s own …
(TrendHunter.com) Have you ever heard of King Midas? To make a long story short, he was a pretty greedy king who wished that whatever he touched would turn to gold. As a result, he ended up starving to death because all the food he touched turned to the valuable metal.
The project by an unknown rebel street artist q…
Sir Richard Branson is releasing Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur in September. In the publication, which is being released by Virgin Books, Branson will finally reveal the keys to his success.
“What I’ve found is that there is no single prescription for running a succes…
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