Omnicom Media Group (OMG)-owned OMD U.S. has named George Manas as its first chief media officer and president, effective April 1. He will join from OMG’s performance marketing division Resolution Media, where he was president, a role that allowed him to often work alongside OMD leadership and brand teams. The appointment follows OMD’s recent decision…
Organic, the self-described digital interaction agency within Omnicom Precision Marketing Group (OPMG), has hired away Barbarian Group CEO Cathy Butler as its new chief executive officer. Butler is set to join the agency on April 29 and will report directly to OPMG CEO Luke Taylor. She replaces Dave Shulman, who parted ways with the agency…
A former Nike executive is suing the company for racial discrimination, which he says was chronic and eventually forced him out of a job. Ahmer Inam, who was senior director of advanced analytics at Nike North America until his departure in December 2018, is seeking $866,000 in financial and other damages including psychological harm. The…
Dogs and cats are leading the initiative to strip pet food of artificial ingredients in Anomaly’s first work for Petco (where the healthy pets go). The minute-long “Cleaning House” ad spotlights Petco’s commitment to complete this shift by May, becoming the only major pet food retailer to remove all artificial coloring, flavoring and preservatives from…
The Clio Awards has unveiled its 150-member jury for this year’s 60th annual event, which boasts a 50/50 percent gender-balanced ratio from 28 countries including Germany, China, Mexico, Canada, India, Switzerland and Brazil. Jury members include Burger King global CMO Fernando Machado, Adweek’s 2018 Grand Brand Genius; VMLY&R global CCO Debbi Vandeven; BBH Worldwide CCO…
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer best known for representing adult film star Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, has been arrested for attempting to extort $22.5 million from Nike, according to a complaint filed in New York today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Earlier this month, Avenatti threatened the athletic apparel giant…
It can be tricky to conceptualize how much water you’re pouring down the drain if you let that leaky faucet drip without fixing — or linger a little too long in the shower. To help make it easier, Brazilian organic juice brand Greenpeople and agency Cheil Brazil designed a series of bottles in various sizes…
Proximity, a part of Omnicom Precision Marketing Group (OPMG), has announced the hiring of Richard Fraser as its first CEO of North America. Effective April 1, the appointment marks Fraser’s return to the agency. He had joined BBDO Worldwide in 2016 as president of Southeast Asia and CEO of Singapore. Before BBDO, Fraser spent nearly…
The average working stiff might not be able to tell you what ADP does, but there’s a decent chance that the company affects him in a very important way–namely, it gets him his paycheck. In fact, ADP (which stands for Automatic Data Processing) pays about 40 million workers worldwide, and 1 in 6 of us…
Presidential candidates have been proclaiming to break them up, and self-inflicted security crises abound, but still, Facebook and Google continue to rake in the lion’s share of digital ad spend, according to a new a eMarketer report released yesterday. Both Facebook and Google weathered a less-than-flattering news cycle to emerge victorious over digital ad spending…
Private thoughts scribbled in a diary aren’t necessarily meant to stay that way, and hundreds of women are sharing their intimate stories for an HBO project called The Inspiration Room. The pop-up exhibit, taking place this week in New York, gathered journal entries from women across the country and built a public space for the…
The California-based CBD brand Medterra is about to get more mainstream visibility, thanks to a rollout in a major pharmacy chain–and some clever digital advertising. This week, CVS Pharmacy began stocking the shelves of 500 stores in seven states (California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and Tennessee) with products that have CBD, or cannabidiol, which…
DDB has answered our burning question, confirming that yes, it does have a new logo. In an effort to get back to its roots, the Omnicom network unveiled its new visual identity this morning after releasing it internally at its global conference in Miami on Wednesday, with some executives–including DDB Worldwide CEO Wendy Clark–subsequently teasing…
MillerCoors is suing Anheuser-Busch, alleging that the latter misguided consumers about the makeup of MillerCoors’ products with its recent campaign in the Big Game. Set in the Bud Light “Dilly Dilly” universe, one of Anheuser-Busch’s Super Bowl ads this year featured the Bud Knight arriving at the Miller Lite and Coors castles with a massive…
Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence over the past few years have fundamentally altered the ways brand marketers can efficiently reach masses of consumers with individually relevant messaging. But making the changes necessary to capitalize on that potential–cleaning up data, upgrading systems, integrating disparate business functions–can be daunting for even the most tech-savvy marketing teams. At Adweek’s…
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic–The idea sounded great: Crush an entire song down to just a few seconds, simulating the complex sound of a Formula 1 race car roaring past. The initial results, though, sounded more “like a robot dying.” Luckily, Wieden + Kennedy creative director Ray Shaughnessy says, her team stuck with the idea of…
Dating and networking app Bumble has its eye on major global expansion in the next few years, and it’s relying on brand partnerships to get there. With that in mind, Bumble announced that Michele Tobin, a 15-year veteran in the business-to-consumer and mobile world, has joined the team as vp of partnerships. “As our industry…
Three years after co-founders CCO Jaime Robinson and CEO Lisa Clunie opened up shop, Joan Creative has rebranded. “When we first launched, we didn’t take a ton of care in developing our identity in that we were still building what the company stood for and meant. Over the past three years that’s become a lot…
Nvidia is showing off the power of a cutting-edge field of artificial intelligence with a new tool that turns rudimentary computer doodles into images that could pass for real photographs. The software, which the Silicon Valley chip company plans to eventually integrate into its forthcoming AI Playground web studio, draws on a data set of…
Gary Fish is one of America’s most successful craft beer brewers. The twist on that achievement is that he never really set out to be one. When Fish opened his Deschutes Brewery & Public House in 1988, he saw himself as a restaurateur. With a storefront location on Bond Street in Oregon’s old mill town…
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