Noel (Hamilton) Bunting has been hired to serve as chief creative officer of Publicis•Poke. Bunting will start in January and report to Charlie Rudd, group CEO of Publicis•Poke, Leo Burnett and Fallon.
In her new role as CCO, Bunting will be responsible for supercharging Publicis•Poke’s creative output for the U.K. and globally. She will be working across Publicis•Poke’s wide variety of clients, including Essity, Renault and Tourism Ireland.
Bunting joins from Neverland following three years leading the creative department as executive creative director, on clients including Rightmove and giffgaff, leading pitch wins including Kopparberg, Tetley, Ladbrokes and Innocent.
Bunting previously worked at Ogilvy UK as global creative director leading Dove and Unilever’s global campaigns. Bunting’s first creative director role in the U.K. was at adam&eveDDB. Prior to this, Bunting was based in New York where she held senior creative roles at Grey and FCB. At the latter, she picked up a Cannes Grand Prix for the Oreo Daily Twist campaign.
Bunting said, “In our industry, it’s the people working alongside you that make all the difference. I’m beyond excited to join the team at Publicis•Poke, working with, and learning from some of the best in the business as we start a new chapter for the agency. I can’t wait to dig into the work.”
Rudd said of Bunting, “I’ve admired her work for some time and there is nobody better to help us lead Publicis•Poke into a new age while strengthening our global creative output.”
The appointment comes after the agency promoted managing director Trent Patterson to COO in July, and shortly after the agency received an IPA Effectiveness Accreditation in September. Recent work from Publicis•Poke includes Buxton’s “Sweat and Tears” and Tourism Ireland’s “What fills my heart?”, and earlier this year, the agency won a Silver Lion at Cannes for its JOBST “Unsynchronized” campaign.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More