In this ‘Cannes special’ episode of It’s Only Media Thursday we discuss the highlights of the opening day at Cannes 2023 with Charlie Crowe of Crowe Advisory.
The PHA Group has been appointed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), to join the charity’s communications framework following a competitive pitch process. The first campaign that the agency will be supporting, following its appointment to the framework, will be the charity’s annual flagship fundraising campaign, Mayday.
Hampshire-based digital marketing agency, Koozai, has hatched a new idea – tech-free Tuesday for all staff, whereby modern technology is banned in favour of communicating through written notes and carrier pigeons. The move to working from home is what sparked the idea due to chirping from team members around difficulties in communicating in a timely fashion.
In-game advertising specialist Adverty AB has announced a strategic partnership with Gold Town Games AB (GTG), which will enable the mobile game developer to offer Adverty’s seamless In-Play and In-Menu formats for both branding and performance advertising within its increasingly popular games.
Pan-European technology PR agency Tyto has announced that it has been appointed by Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders) as the international non-profit’s pro bono PR partner across Europe. Tyto’s brief aims to further shine a light on the limitations and dangers faced by free press worldwide, highlight just how many journalists are currently incarcerated due to dictatorial regimes and push for an end to media censorship and suppression.
Cobalt has named Eric Brinkman as its new Chief Product Officer. In this role, Brinkman will lead Cobalt’s product vision, enhancing the existing suite of offerings and identifying innovative ways to meet and exceed the needs of current and future customers.
Digital experience agency Tribal Health has appointed Niaz Rizwani as its new Strategy Director. Rizwani joins from Publicis Health where he was a Senior Strategist. Prior to Publicis Health, Rizwani worked in strategy and innovation projects at DigitasLBi and Blue Latitude.
Sally Laycock has been appointed as the new CEO of Incubeta UK, the independent digital marketing services group. Laycock will succeed Luke Judge, who has headed up the company as US and UK Group CEO for the past 5 years. John Cawdery who was appointed as US CEO in September last year will continue to lead Incubeta in North America.
Incubeta has announced the appointment of Zoe Hall as Managing Director of Adtech Solutions and Lauren Stearley as Director of Programmatic. Before joining Incubeta, Hall was instrumental in launching the largest early-stage investment platform, Antler, where she worked as Director of Marketing.
Born Social welcomes two new senior hires: Harry Fishwick as Head of Creative and Hannah Wolff as Head of Social Media Management. Fishwick joins from his TUI, the world’s number-one tourism business, where he held the role of Video Marketing Manager and Hannah joins from Three UK where she was lead creative in the social and PR team.
Digital agency Organic has appointed Nora Sereg as the agency’s new Digital Project Manager. In her new role, Nora will specifically oversee projects within the Sainsbury’s Group Account following the agency’s recent appointment by Sainsbury’s to oversee the brands’ SEO.
AML Group has announced the appointment of Philippe Crump as Head of Content. Crump joins from the Omnicom content marketing agency, Specialist, where he led the set-up and operation of global content newsrooms and content marketing programs for brands such as Zurich Insurance, Siemens and SITA For Aircraft.
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