According to an informed source, bicoastal/international RSA and bicoastal Anonymous Content are talking about possibly merging their commercial production operations. However, at press time, the consummation of a deal was hardly a fait accompli. RSA’s holdings include bicoastal spot house RSA USA, London-based commercial shop RSA Films, bicoastal/international Top Dog Films (which represents a roster of feature directors for select commercials), and bicoastal/international music video company Black Dog Films…. Bicoastal Moss/Petermann/Holtzman (MPH), one of the production houses in the Stoney Road family, has closed its doors. Director Peter Moss has moved over to Hollywood-based SunSpots. The plans of directors Henry Holtzman and Fred Petermann were not known at press time….Director Brian Scott Weber has signed with Palomar Pictures, Los Angeles, for commercial and music video representation. Weber had been working through Los Angeles-based Scream….Director Young Kim, formerly of bicoastal/international hungry man, has joined Hollywood-based production house Little Minx….London-based spot and feature film special effects director David Lane has signed with Black Logic, New York, for representation stateside….Editor Erik Johnson is now working out of the New York office of bicoastal Crew Cuts. He had previously been cutting spots out of the San Francisco arm of the editorial house…Editor Brett Nicoletti has joined New York-based wild(child) editorial….After 62 years in business, New York agency Warwick Baker O’Neill is closing its doors on Aug. 3.….Saatchi & Saatchi San Francisco, shut down this week, resulting in the loss of jobs for some 50 employees. The shop never fully recovered from losing its anchor client, Hewlett-Packard Co., a year-and-a-half ago. Saatchi San Francisco co-creative directors Steve Silver and Curtis Melville are reportedly in the process of opening their own partnership, Silver/ Melville….Tom O’Keefe has been promoted from senior VP/client creative director to executive creative director of FCB San Francisco. He succeeds Rooney Carruthers who is returning home to the U.K. for personal reasons. Carruthers most recently served as executive creative director/art director on last week’s SHOOT Top Spot, "X-Ray Vision" for Levi’s Dockers Mobile Pant..…James J. McCaffrey, a co-founder of agency McCaffrey & McCall, New York, died of complications from a stroke on July 21. McCaffrey, a past president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As), retired as chairman/CEO of McCaffrey & McCall in 1973; the agency was acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi New York in ’88….Lisa Prisco, former VP/creative director for Gap, GapKids and babyGap, has wrapped her first helming assignment since joining Los Angeles-headquartered A Band Apart—a client-direct spot, "Back to School," for American Eagle Outfitters….
VCCP Hires Trio Of Creative Duos
Global communications network VCCP has brought three creative duos on board: Charli Camber (née Plant) and Laura Saraiva; Lance Boreham and Tom Dyson; and Jack Snell and Joe Lovett.
Associate creative directors Camber and Saraiva are a British-Portuguese duo known for creating entertaining, culturally influential, and emotionally resonant work. They are best known for “Waiting to Live,” a National Health Service (NHS) child organ donation campaign that placed 233 bespoke dolls representing children on the transplant waiting list in medical waiting rooms across the U.K. The campaign won over 50 awards, including three Cannes Lions, the Grand Prix at the Clios, ADC*E and Eurobest, as well as multiple D&AD Pencils.
Camber and Saraiva join VCCP after three years at VML, where they contributed to four agency pitch wins and worked across global brands including Batiste, Beko, and Duracell. They also helped launch the award-winning mentoring app Magpie and created “Check Me Out,” a provocative cervical cancer awareness campaign that gained traction on social media.
Boreham and Dyson join VCCP as a senior creative team. The duo first met on the renowned Watford ad course in 2014 and later reunited at isobel, where they delivered standout campaigns for Reed, Travelodge and Thortful. Their work has been recognized across the industry for its creativity and effectiveness.
Snell and Lovett also join VCCP as a senior creative team, marking a return to the agency where they spent the first seven years of their careers. During their initial tenure at VCCP, they played a pivotal role in launching major campaigns for Domino’s (“The Official Food of Everything”) and Virgin Media O2 (“Supercharge Your World”), as well as crafting... Read More