Arnold CEO Kiran Smith welcomes chief strategy officer Guy Lambert and chief financial officer Lucia Ferrante as her first key hires since succeeding former chief executive Pam Hamlin in July. “One of the things I wanted to do” coming into the role, Smith told Adweek, is “to make sure … as we continue to grow… ..
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Seth Farbman is saying goodbye to Spotify. The company’s CMO, who has been in the position for three and a half years, will be leaving the post at the end of September to “pursue other opportunities.” Until then, he will play a role in the transition. The news was announced in a U.S. Securities and… ..
Scott Kauffman is stepping down as chairman and CEO of MDC Partners, roles he has held since 2015. Kauffman previously served as presiding director of the board, beginning in 2006. The board of directors has started a search for a new chairman and chief executive and entered into a succession agreement with Kauffman, who will… ..
After overseeing some of the world’s top creative shops for more than three decades, Martin Sorrell no longer seems to think they play a crucial role in advertising. The prospectus for his new venture, S4 Capital, went live Tuesday. And while the 191-page document includes quite a bit of information about S4’s primary property, MediaMonks,… ..
Following a post-grad stint working in marketing for Madison Square Garden in the ’80s, Marsha Lindsay returned to her home state to start a master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she had a consumer psychology fellowship. There, she found that her research on purchase behavior was a powerful tool when it came to… ..
We Have Stories works with clients who “will move the needle on some type of issue going on in the country or on a global basis,” according to founder and CEO Frederick Joseph. With a client roster that includes Wendy Williams’ “Be Here” campaign, the Archdiocese of New York’s “Charity Has No Boundaries” project and… ..
One of Must Be Something’s biggest assets is its small size. Co-founders Andrew Schafer and Jed Alger say the creative agency’s staff of just seven people lets it be “nimble and responsive.” The team, which is based in Portland, Ore., is surrounded by a creative freelance community, ready to pitch in for short-term projects and… ..
For generations, the prevailing view in advertising held that a world outside the major metro hubs of New York, Chicago and later Los Angeles didn’t exist–or at least didn’t matter. But as the industry settles firmly into its digital age, a new generation is flocking to smaller cities like Austin, Texas, Omaha, Neb., and Knoxville,… ..
It may seem obvious to sell to human beings rather than “consumers.” But marketers often ignore this basic tenet, one that Doner chief consumer connections officer Marcus Collins holds above all else. “When we walk into the office as a marketer, we take our human hat off and put on the marketer hat, strategist, creative,”… ..
The Twin Cities agency scene mourned the passing of a giant earlier this month when creative director Rolland “Ron” Anderson, a titan of an earlier era in advertising, died at the age of 82. Anderson spent roughly five decades in the ad industry and helped shape agencies both within and beyond his Minnesota home base,… ..
