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Leo Burnett Chicago has hired Kate Jeffers as chief executive officer, effective May 15. Jeffers will oversee Leo Burnett’s flagship Chicago office and operations, and the agency’s brand partnerships including Bank of America, Beam Suntory, Kellogg’s, Molson Coors, Nintendo and Tillamook. She...
Creative agency BMB has appointed Laurent Simon as its new chief creative officer. He succeeds Matt Lever, former CCO who left BMB at the end of last year.
Simon brings nearly two decades of experience and a stellar track record of creativity to BMB. He will be responsible for leading the...
Japan's antitrust watchdog said Monday that U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan.
The Japan Fair Trade Commission said in a statement that its recent study of Google's practices showed it was undermining fair competition in the...
The One Club for Creativity has unveiled the finalists entries from 38 countries and regions for the global ADC 103rd Annual Awards.
A pair of agencies lead the world with 21 finalists each. One is Rethink Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver, whose total includes eight finalists for Kraft Heinz “...
"Civil War," Alex Garland's ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The A24 election-year gamble, the indie studio's biggest budgeted film yet, took in $11.1 million in ticket sales at 3,929 theaters...
The House passed legislation Saturday that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform's China-based owner doesn't sell its stake within a year, but don't expect the app to go away anytime soon.
The decision by House Republicans to include TikTok as part of...
Director Ella Ezeike has joined production house Eleanor for her first U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content.
Drawn to narrative-style films but unafraid to waver from linear structure, Ezeike has turned out such work as Words We Don’t Say, a poignant...
Director Florence Noble has joined the roster of Moxie Pictures for her first U.S. representation.
Known for her irreverent humor and visual flair, Noble has roots in the advertising industry dating back to her childhood when she stole pens from Saatchi & Saatchi Design London where...
Though it wasn’t planned, it’s somehow fitting that Vincent Lin finds himself in postproduction putting the final touches on his feature directorial debut, Chopin, as May--which is Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month--fast approaches. The timing...
An attorney has been added to the special prosecution team that is pursuing an involuntary manslaughter charge against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie "Rust," court officials confirmed Thursday.
The district attorney for Santa...