After being named Adweek’s Breakthrough and International Agencies of the Year, Gut keeps winning. Gut Miami has been appointed global AOR for WeightWatchers, following a competitive review that was conducted in-house. The agency will be responsible for collaborating with the brand team to launch U.S. and global campaigns supporting the portfolio of products, providing ongoing…
Bed Bath & Beyond, now a fully online retailer, is launching its comeback campaign today, helmed by independent creative agency Arts & Letters. Brand and agency are partnering for the first time to produce the work. The integrated campaign, called “An Icon Returns,” includes a mix of out-of-home, print, digital and film spots. The agency…
Pitching a self-storage company was a new one for Basic/Dept’s vp of growth, Asher Wren. Once an agency onboards a new client, it’s common for strategists to conduct market research before responding to briefs. New business leads like Wren do the same thing when preparing to pitch prospects, but often under tighter timelines and with…
In late March this year, Richard Branson’s adults-only cruise line Virgin Voyages wrapped up a short review of its global media business and selected GroupM’s EssenceMediacom to manage the account. But the cruise line reversed course before transitioning its business. It opted to stick with one of its incumbent agency networks, Omnicom Media Group (OMG)….
Chime is a banking app with a serious social following. At nearly 1 million Instagram followers, the Chime app stands out from other banks in its loyal fanbase. But the decade-old brand is looking for wider name recognition, which is why it recently selected AKQA as its integrated marketing agency. The partnership looks to redefine…
Bathroom tissue brand Quilted Northern has chosen Orchard as its new creative agency after a competitive pitch process. Orchard is tasked with creating work that makes consumers who aren’t currently using Quilted Northern question their current toilet paper while giving them a compelling reason to buy the brand. “We loved this pitch. It felt like…
From the moment the world first saw the 350 GT at the Geneva Auto Show in 1964 to the introduction of the all-electric Lanzador concept at this year’s Monterey Car Week, the Lamborghini brand has been defined by the vehicle experience. For eight months, Lamborghini America put its experiential marketing account up for review, looking…
Ikea has named its first global brand marketing partner in McCann. The Swedish furniture and home goods retailer chose the IPG agency to be its global partner, with business to be led out of McCann Spain in Madrid, which had a preexisting relationship with Ikea. McCann will lead Ikea retail for the Ingka Group, which…
Global CPG giant The Kraft Heinz Company has named Carat its media agency of record in the U.S. market. The account move follows a global review and sees the business leave Publicis Media’s Starcom. It’s an upset for Starcom, which lost Heinz’s global business in August 2020 after an eight-month global review involving four competitors….
Verizon has named Ogilvy creative agency of record for its consumer business. The move follows Verizon’s December 2022 decision to award Ogilvy AOR duties for its Verizon Business unit. Ogilvy had begun working on consumer projects including Verizon’s new consumer brand platform “It’s Your Verizon” and the recently launched NFL Sunday Ticket campaign. Diego Scotti,…
Duracell has two new agencies to power its marketing, picking Publicis-owned BBH USA as its new lead creative agency in the U.S. and entrusting VaynerMedia with its social marketing. The Berkshire Hathaway-owned brand held a pitch over the summer that it ran internally to pick a new agency to replace Wieden+Kennedy. The indie agency has…
Mother in LA did some heavy lifting to become fitness brand Orangetheory Fitness’ new creative agency. As such, Orangetheory Fitness is moving on from Tombras creatively, though the Knoxville agency will still handle media for the company. In its search for a new agency, Orangetheory was looking for a positioning refresh in the category to…
Lufthansa Group, the global airline headquartered in Cologne, Germany, has awarded its North America creative business to Washington, D.C.-based indie agency This January. The agency will focus on strengthening the brand’s salience with U.S. and Canadian audiences. The brand and agency declined to reveal the incumbent agency, or the other agencies it invited to the…
Safe sex brand Durex has extended its relationship with McCann Worldgroup, which will become its global brand lead and see it tasked with the development of a new marketing communications model and brand ecosystem. The task will be led by MRM, which already worked with the Reckitt-owned brand in the U.S., while growing its remit…
One of the most important reasons agency CEOs flock to Cannes each June is for their clients. It’s an opportunity to wine and dine with countless partners, build bonds and secure current–or even new–business. But not all clients are alike–some value their agency partnerships as extensions of their own teams, while others are notorious cost-cutters…
Marketing and agency executives know that running or participating in agency reviews is costly. A single review’s collective expenses–in severe cases reaching $1.2 million–might surprise even the most tenured leaders. Today, the 4A’s, Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and Advertiser Perceptions released a joint report that measured these costs. The research, titled The Cost of…
IPG creative agency R/GA has won Intuit TurboTax’s business, following a creative review that began in March. Intuit brands include Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp. R/GA will work on increasing consumer adoption of TurboTax offerings TurboTax Live and TurboTax Full Service. To do this, it will take a full-funnel approach to strategy, spanning…
VaynerMedia has been focused on expanding its global footprint and building linear buying expertise. This April, Bose wrapped up four multi-month reviews spanning brand, performance, analytics and public relations, culminating in the appointment of VaynerMedia as its global brand agency of record. It’s a momentous win for the agency, and one of the largest assignments…
Pernod Ricard’s Irish whiskey brand Jameson has selected Ogilvy as its next global creative partner. Ogilvy won the competitive pitch against longtime incumbent TBWA and Publicis New York, according to Brendan Buckley, the global marketing director for Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard. The brand used R3 to run the pitch, which Buckley said ran a process…
Tan France was a huge Care Bears fan as a kid. Now, the Queer Eye fashion star is acting alongside Funshine Bear in an ongoing campaign for Alaska Airlines. “I was the ultimate Care Bears fan as a kid. I was obsessed with the TV show. And so the fact that I get to interact…
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