Hasta La Creative!

DigitasLBi promoted Linda Piggot to the role of chief growth officer for North America. She will continue to report to North American CEO Tony Weisman.

“This is a terrific move for Linda as she can continue her incredible track record of growth,” Weisman said in a statement. “She’s a proven collaborator with our Groupe partners having won several major clients including HPE. We’re excited to have Linda in this role and know she’ll continue to help us grow and prosper.”

Piggot has served as DigitasLBi North America chief integration officer since last August, overseeing Power Of One Publicis Groupe client engagements.

She originally joined Digitas back in June of 2003 as executive vice president, global relationship lead on American Express and Blackberry before her most recent promotion. Prior to joining the Publicis unit, she spent four years as senior vice president, group management director at FCBi.

Gallegos United has appointed Harvey Marco as chief creative officer and co-president, replacing Dave Damman who will leave the agency at the end of July. Damman has resigned to focus more attention on the needs of his life outside of work and plans to return to Minnesota to be with family. Marco joins from WPP’s Garage Team Mazda, an agency he helped launch, serving as its chief creative officer since 2010. His career spans more than 20 years and includes positions at agencies such as, JWT NY, Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles and Fallon.

Arnold Worldwide has appointed Jennifer Alfson as an executive creative director in its New York office, overseeing creative work across the Kao Corporation portfolio of brands. Alfson has previously led initiatives for global beauty brands such as Revlon, Pantene, Maybelline and L’Oral. She joins Arnold from Fallon NY (formerly AR New York), where she was a senior creative director working on Revlon. Prior to that, she was a creative director at Grey Group, where she was part of the team that helped pitch and win the Pantene digital business, and has also worked on the Maybelline account at Gotham and on L’Oral at McCann-Erickson.

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Ad Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco’s media roundup for the morning of Wednesday, June 28:

Today’s accidental theme is … print media. Seriously. Though faithful readers of this daily media scan know that it’s not unusual for me to offer a glimpse of a newspaper front page or magazine cover now and then, it’s downright freakish for print to dominate the mix like it does today. But hey, maybe that just makes sense given how yesterday we were reminded, once again, how fragile and vulnerable the internet really is. Anyway, let’s get started …

6. And while we’re at it: “Fragile Men Of Twitter Cannot Handle ESPN Cover Star’s Nude Photo” (ha!), per HuffPost’s Jenavieve Hatch.

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Ad Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco’s media roundup for the morning of Thursday, June 29:

This feels like one of those before-and-after moments in American media history — and American history itself. Before was pre-8:52 a.m. this morning, and After was 8:59 a.m. onward. What exactly happened? It’s hard to say — because it’s so breathtaking and unprecedented and unsettling. But since this historic something happened on Twitter, I’m going to try to address it and its aftermath using only tweets in this very special edition of your media roundup. Wish me luck. Let’s get started …

1. Yeah, so “Morning Joe” (the MSNBC morning talk show), “Psycho Joe” (Joe Scarborough) and “Mika Brzezinski” (Scarborough’s co-host) are all top 10 trending topics on Twitter this morning …

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-Droga5 recreated John Trumbull‘s classic “Declaration of Independence” painting with the descendants of founding fathers in its first campaign for Ancestry.com after officially being named lead creative agency earlier this month (video above).

-Honda Motor Europe launched a creative review.

-AdAge explains why General Mills is boostings its marketing spend.

-Camp+King welcomed brand managers Ellen Obletz and Helen Oddone.

-Marketers aren’t too keen on voice search yet.

-AdAge shares “The CMO’s Guide to Ad Boycotts.”

-Pride in London apologized for a poster campaign accused of having a straight bias, saying it “misjudged” the content, “undermining the individuality, importance, and dignity of the LGBT+ community.”