Industry veteran Taj Alavi is now global head of marketing at Spotify, a newly created role for the music streaming company, the brand confirmed to Adweek today.

Eight months since landing in the U.S., Australian and New Zealand independent agency Special Group is rapidly expanding in the Americas with 17 new hires over the past few months. Notably, these mostly organic arrivals are largely talent leaving large holding companies in favor of smaller, more family-like shops.

Publicis Groupe is rejiggering its U.S. Publicis Media leadership team with an array of new titles to round out its C-suite.

Grey London is to fully acquire and integrate social media agency Wildfire on June 1, forming Grey Social, which will offer social insights, creative and content production.

Ogilvy hired Kaleeta McDade as its first global creative lead for its experience practice as it moves toward integrating creative services globally.

The evolution of WPP media agency network GroupM continues with a new role and further investment in innovation.

As IPG’s FCB invests in data and technology to expand its creative output, the agency network is reflecting that priority in its leadership roster with the hiring of Tina Allan as its first head of data science and connections.

Havas Media Group hired the newest member of its executive leadership team in North America away from one of the five largest consulting firms.

MDC Partners agency Doner has just hired its first leader dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion.

A little over two years since taking over as R/GA CEO, Sean Lyons says he has a leadership team in place for the agency’s latest reinvention.