| | | | | | James Hilton, the co-founder and chief creative officer of AKQA, is leaving the agency after 20 years to launch his own interior and product design company, handing over AKQA's creative reins to Rei Inamoto. | | | | | | Sainsbury's has launched its "Christmas is for sharing" World War I ad featuring a chocolate bar the supermarket will be selling in store to raise money for the Royal British Legion. | | | | | | Chambord, the raspberry liqueur owned by Brown-Forman, is looking for a digital and social media agency. | | | | | | Unilever is inviting roster and non-roster agencies to pitch for a global Axe brief. | | | | | | Campaign takes of look at the major Christmas ads including John Lewis, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Asda and Debenhams, some of which have pulled at viewers' heartstrings, while others have offered up some comedy. | | | | | | Dixons Carphone, the electronics retail group, has kicked off a review to consolidate its two media planning and buying accounts, worth a combined £87 million. | | | | | | Jet2.com, the budget airline based at Leeds Bradford Airport, and its sister pack-age-holiday company Jet2-holidays have appointed MEC Manchester to their £11 million media account. | | | | | | Rooney Carruthers, the co-founder of VCCP, is joining Enter as the creative partner. He replaces Paul Shearer, who is leaving the business. | | | | | | Oxfam has appointed Lida to handle its direct and digital fundraising account. | | | | | | Doner London, the agency part-owned by MDC Partners, has appointed Wayne Deakin as its first executive creative director. | | | | | | Bonnie Harold and Nicky Badenoch have become equity partners at LizH, the creative headhunting business. | | | | | | Pizza Hut has handed its £10 million delivery account to Ogilvy & Mather London ahead of a marketing drive to modernise perceptions of the Yum! Brands business. | | | | | | | The Netflix tie-up and arrival of Sky Sports take the service closer to its goal of ten million homes, David Benady writes | | | | | | MediaCom has promoted Kate Rowlinson, the new-business and marketing director for EMEA, and Costin Mihaila, the chief executive for Central and Eastern Europe, to joint managing directors for EMEA. | | | | | | Premier Foods will run a 30-year old Oxo ad on Christmas day as a tribute to the actress Lynda Bellingham, who died earlier this year. | | | | | | | High-profile marketer Amanda Mackenzie is set to embark on a two-year secondment from Aviva, where she will lead a new UN development project with renowned film director Richard Curtis, the founder of Red Nose Day and Make Poverty History. | | | | | | Jan MacGregor, one of adland's most respected headhunters during a career spanning almost three decades, has died after a two-year battle with breast cancer. | | | | | | | Vodafone features hospital staff, chefs, farmers and its employees around the country singing along to 'Let it Go' from 'Frozen', the Disney film, in its biggest Christmas ad. | | | | | | Bartle Bogle Hegarty London has lured the Brazilian executive creative directors behind Dove's "real beauty sketches" to join as creative directors. | | | | | | Christopher Bailey, Burberry's chief creative and executive officer, has said digital is at the heart of its latest ad campaign, describing it as a "seductive place to play" that enables the brand to tell a story. | | | | | | Tesco's Christmas TV ad builds up to a major festive light show created by the people behind the London 2012 opening ceremony. | | | | | | | |
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