Hasta La Creative!

After spending nearly five years at IPG-owned Draftfcb, first as EVP/group management director, digital and the last year-plus as chief digital officer, Chris Miller is leaving the agency. Sources familiar with the matter tell us that Miller, who worked out of the Chicago office, has resigned for a post at pharmaceutical company, Abbott Laboratories. Prior to Draftfcb, Miller spent four years at the now-defunct Windy City operation Element79, where he last held the same role as CDO. Sources say Draftfcb does not plan to fill the chief digital officer role.

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“Till life do us part.”

Advertising Agency: Garbergs, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Mattias Dahlqvist, Sebastian Smedberg
Copywriter: Sebastian Smedberg
Jr Copywriter: Rachel La Chenardière
Jr Art Director: Emelie Jinhee Johnsson
Designer: Mimmi Wägerth
Account Manager: Malin Boustedt
Account Director: Anna Frick
Illustrator: Annelie Carlström

Maxus has appointed Bijan White, the EMEA digital strategy director for OMD International, as its EMEA head of digital to provide an additional tier of leadership across the region.

“Stop criminals makink a kill.
Help kill the trade that kills at Facebook.com/WWF ”

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, London, United Kingdom
Executive Creative Director: Gerry Human,
Art Director: Denis Kakazu
Copywriter: Giles Montgomery
Planner: Tara Austin
Illustrator: Salamagica
Account manager: Michael Alexander, Victoria Radford
Art Buyer: Coral Stafford, Traffic Manager, Peter Nuttal

Heineken has taken the most-shared accolade with just 14,191 shares this week in a slow seven days for ad sharing, according to figures from social video experts Unruly.

Remake du film original sorti en 1947, « The Secret Life of Walter Mitty » se dévoile dans une magnifique bande-annonce. Ce film, réalisé et joué par Ben Stiller, met en scène Walter Mitty, un homme timide qui s’imagine dans son esprit être le héros d’aventures extraordinaires. A découvrir dans la suite.

(TrendHunter.com) For those who are tired of the men in the house leaving the toilet seat up, the ‘Put Me Down’ Bathroom Decal might be the best and most assertive route to take to help combat the problem….

(TrendHunter.com) The S’echapper du Chateau (Escape from the Castle) photo series is comprised of images that look as though there were stills from a new Hitchcock film, that is if Hitchcock were still alive…

Dove Men+Care, a sponsor of the New York City Marathon, has hired John McEnroe, the irascible tennis pro, to represent its deodorant line to runners.

The New York Times is looking to create “significantly more” video to meet the demand of readers, a move that will also help it scoop up lucrative ad dollars.

Top brass at the Times Co. discussed the video strategy during its second-quarter earnings call on Thursday, when it reported a 6% decline in advertising revenue. Digital ad revenue declined 2.7% and print retreated 6.8% from the year prior, the company said.

In addition to video reporting, the Times has produced a branded documentary series and aggregated videos from Retro Report, an outside organization that looks at major news stories of the past few decades.

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