Verizon is tapping a new leader as it heads toward a pivotal juncture in the future of wireless service. The country’s biggest cell carrier announced on Friday that its current chief technology officer, Hans Vestberg, will succeed CEO Lowell McAdam in August. The move seems to suggest Verizon is placing more priority on the fast-approaching… ..
Tag : Leadership & Talent
More than two years after a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Gustavo Martinez upended the ad industry and two months following the settlement of said suit, WPP and the former JWT CEO have announced that they will go their separate ways. Campaign first broke the news this afternoon. “Gustavo Martinez and WPP have agreed it… ..
HitRecord, the eight-year-old content studio from actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is adding a branded content division. The Los Angeles company, which taps into a creative community of roughly 650,000 creators in 193 countries, has already worked with brands like Wag!, LG and Levis, but much of that work has come through calls to Gordon-Levitt’s talent agency,… ..
At creative activation and content marketing agency Kamp Grizzly–which has offices in New York and Portland, Ore.–disruption is part of every creative brief. “A lot of what we’re focused on these days” is finding ways to “create such a stir that it’s unavoidable,” said agency founder Dan Portrait. At CES, for example, the agency promoted… ..
Brandi Halls wanted to be a vet when she first saw Free Willy at age 12. Two decades later, she’s held onto her dream of dedicating herself to animals–albeit in a less conventional way. Now the director of brand communications at Lush, Halls spearheads national campaigns centering around causes the cosmetics company has championed for… ..
Howard Schultz is leaving Starbucks at the end of the month. “I set out to build a company that my father, a blue-collar worker and World War II veteran, never had a chance to work for,” Schultz said in a letter to current and former Starbucks partners. “Together we’ve done that, and so much more,… ..
McKinney has named Joe Maglio as its new CEO, effective October 1. Current chairman and CEO Brad Brinegar will remain with the agency in a chairman role at least through 2020. “Last year, I began thinking about succession, and as part of that, we decided we were going to make a change in our New… ..
Hecho En 72, the production company housed within MDC Partners agency 72andSunny, will become its own company. The announcement, which went out to staff yesterday, marks the latest and perhaps most dramatic step in the reorganization of the 72 organization, which parted with just under 5 percent of staff in its L.A. headquarters last week…. ..
Following news that Milwaukee agency Laughlin Constable had fired CCO Dan Fietsam, who also resigned from his role as president of United Adworkers following unspecified allegations of sexual harassment, the UA organization posted a letter yesterday sharing “additional context surrounding the events and our subsequent actions.” United Adworkers originally shared a letter in which Fietsam… ..
Martin Sorrell’s much-hyped absence from advertising is proving quite short lived. According to a report that ran in the U.K.’s Sky News this afternoon, the now-former leader of WPP looks to re-enter the ad industry in much the same way he did before: by taking over a shell company. The story by Sky reporter Mark… ..
