Creative agency Laundry Service and its production wing Cycle went through a large-scale “restructuring” today, parting with founder and CEO Jason Stein as well as dozens of staff members. Wasserman, the talent management company that acquired Laundry Service in 2015, confirmed Stein’s departure in a statement. It also confirmed that three leaders will succeed him:… ..
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Digital strategy consultancy TLGG is expanding to the U.S. with an office in the New York hub of parent company Omnicom. The move will allow TLGG to offer its digital strategy, business model innovation and organizational development consulting services to U.S. clients. Katrin Zimmermann will lead the New York office’s operations and clients as managing… ..
The spat between WPP and former CEO Martin Sorrell over the future ownership of digital production company MediaMonks quickly escalated into a potential legal battle this week. The Guardian first reported late Thursday that the holding group Sorrell ran for 33 years sent a letter to his London-based law firm, Lewis Silkin, arguing that any… ..
Isobar, a Dentsu Aegis-owned digital agency network, announced today that it has elevated three of its executives to the global C-suite level, effective immediately. Sue McCusker has been appointed chief client officer, Caroline Dean named chief marketing officer and Vikalp Tandon becomes chief technology officer, all of which are new roles. Previously, McCusker, Dean and… ..
Publicis Groupe chief data officer Jason Kodish announced his resignation today in a lengthy all-staff email he seemingly copied and pasted into a public LinkedIn post. Kodish starts the email warning his colleagues that it will be a “long one” but not the “farewell email that you expect from me,” void of any “f-bombs or… ..
Experimentation and authenticity: two key factors that leaders from Bark, Peloton and ClassPass use for their respective companies. At the third annual Evolving E conference in New York City, held by GGV Capital and Max Ventures, Graham Stanton, co-founder of Peloton, Jay Livingston, CMO at Bark and Joanna Lord, CMO at ClassPass, came together at… ..
On top of the JW Marriott in Cannes, France, top marketing executives gathered to discuss the best practices of omnichannel marketing. But, since this was only the opening night of the Cannes Lions festival, the conversation’s topic (and surrounding soir?e) soon turned to helpful advice on surviving the week ahead. Burger King’s global head of… ..
Droga5 went through its third round of layoffs this year. An agency representative confirmed the staffing reductions but declined to elaborate. Around two dozen employees were affected, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The move appears to be part of the same restructuring process that resulted in earlier layoffs at the… ..
In a memo sent out to all WPP employees around the world this morning, holding company co-COO and Wunderman chief executive Mark Read struck a tone of mutual respect and reassurance following reports by The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times that claimed former CEO Martin Sorrell resigned while the company’s board of directors… ..
Yesterday’s upstarts have become today’s top-level talent, ushering in a new, digitally native generation of leadership. While many of them first arrived in the advertising world to find it dangerously complacent, those wise and bold enough to chart a path forward have helped reshape the industry. You may not have already known their names, but… ..
