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Reviews

January 16, 2013
  • Honda Selects Finalists in Ad Review.
  • Bennetts, the specialist UK motorcycle insurance specialist, is reviewing its agency arrangements.

Account Moves

January 16, 2013
  • Reebok to leave McGarryBowen, return to DDB.
  • Superdrug, the health and pharmaceutical retailer, has appointed Billington Cartmell to its £3m advertising account.
  • BSkyB's Now TV has appointed Holler to its social media account.
  • Sleepy's awards its media business.

Account Moves

January 15, 2013
  • Atomic London, the start-up agency founded by the former DDB executives Nick Fox, Jon Goulding, Guy Bradbury and Richard Hill, has been awarded the advertising account for Love Smoothies.

People

January 15, 2013
  • Kinetic Worldwide, the WPP outdoor agency, has appointed Stuart Taylor, the former chief executive of GMG Radio, as its UK chief executive.
  • Drew Meyers was named president of gyro San Francisco.
  • SapientNitro hired Alison Garnett as creative director in Toronto. Previously, Garnett was creative director at Critical Mass in Toronto.
  • Arnold Worldwide hired Tristan Kincaid as creative director in New York. Kincaid most recently served as creative director at Ogilvy & Mather.
  • Jonathan Kopp joined Glover Park Group as chief interactive strategist and managing director.
  • Conversation hired Brian Murphy as manager of brand development.
  • Meg O'Brien joined Mindshare as director of social strategy on Unilever North America.
  • JWT New York hired Jill Applebaum as creative director. Applebaum will work on Diageo’s Smirnoff and Nestlé’s Skinny Cow brands, among others. Applebaum joins JWT from Draftfcb New York, where she served as senior vice president, group creative director, overseeing creative development for Kraft’s Oreo brand.
  • On February 1, Peter Ampe will join DDB Brussels as executive creative director.
  • MeringCarson named Michael Leonardini as design director of its newly launched design group, Emcee Design.

Industry

January 15, 2013
  • Morrisons has formed an in-house digital agency, M Digital, to develop its eagerly awaited ecommerce site.