CP+B will be closing its Miami office in March of 2018. Over the course of the next several months, the focus will be on winding down and relocating operations. The Miami office is CP+B’s smallest U.S. shop, and the agency’s Miami accounts will move to Boulder, Los Angeles and São Paulo. The agency also has offices in London, Copenhagen, Hong Kong and Beijing.
“The DNA of CP+B centers around incredibly talented people doing extraordinary things. It’s our obligation to our employees and our clients to create and maintain an environment where this can happen,” said Erik Sollenberg, CEO, CP+B. “As we recommit to our core philosophies, and reassess our structure, we have made the difficult decision to close our Miami office. While the official date is a few months away, we believe it is important to share the news now. This way, we can help each of our Miami people find a new situation for the coming year, whether it is within CP+B or beyond.”
In total, about 75 employees will be affected by this closure, the majority of whom work in finance and accounting. Those functions will now be centralized in Boulder. A number of people in the Miami office are being offered relocation to other CP+B offices, including executive creative director Tom Adams, who will be moving to CP+B LA. The agency is working with parent company MDC Partners to identify positions within the network, and additional full service support measures have been put in place to work with all affected Miami staff.
The leadership team of CP+B Brazil’s CEO/partner Vinicius Reis and chief creative officers/partners Marcos Medeiros and Andre Kassu–who added overseeing the Miami office to their responsibilities last year–will continue in their roles with CP+B Brazil. “Vini, Marcos and Kassuhave had extraordinary success in São Paulo, growing the office from four people to over 110 in less than three years,” said Chuck Porter, chairman of CP+B. “We all felt that the best path going forward was to allow them to fully focus on the opportunities there.”
“This was a difficult decision and we agonized over it,” continued Porter. “Our significant new business growth, however, has mainly been in Boulder and LA, and ultimately we decided that focusing our resources there will be better for the work and for our clients.”
This move comes on the heels of a number of recent and significant steps for CP+B including the hiring of Sollenberg, who spent 14 years as CEO of renowned Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors, with whom CP+B has a global strategic partnership. In October, Sollenberg was joined by award-winning creative leader Linus Karlsson, who most recently founded MING Utility and Entertainment Group, and prior to that served as chief creative officer of global brands at McCann-Erickson, creative chairman of Commonwealth/McCann, and co-founded Mother New York.
A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly
U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.
The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.
Here's what it all means:
What is the Justice Department's goal?
Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.
"The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."
Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."
It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More