Agency

After five years servicing the Mondelez account, VaynerMedia opens a full-service shop in Toronto. “I think we’re ready,” says its global leader.

Despite lots of dire predictions, the holding companies’ recent results suggest things aren’t that bad. And Canada’s agency leaders seem to agree.

Salary transparency is considered an important factor in the fight against the gender pay gap.

Sammi Ferhaoui, co-founder of Britain’s new Creative Communications Workers union, said that changing attitudes towards work, combined with growing economic uncertainty, have created an environment for unions to thrive.

News of Glover’s hiring comes just days after it was announced she was leaving Juniper Park\TBWA, the agency she’s worked with since coming to Canada in 2018.

Juniper Park\TBWA, DDB Canada and Bolt Productions will be folded into a new entity called TBWA\Group Canada, with Jill Nykoliation leaving the company.

The Halifax agency says a happy goodbye to designer Britt Hall, who’s leaving the agency for Forsman & Bodenfors’ Toronto office.

A new clothing and accessories line called “The Broken People” was shaped by the McCann art director’s search for creative expression and his own struggles with anxiety.

The company is poised to become the first advertising holding company to appear in advertising’s biggest showcase.

Along with the promotions of Yung and Murray, the agency is looking for a chief creative officer following the departure of Wain Choi.

The online store showcases the agency’s Ad wear clothing collection, but also some more esoteric items like a delivery truck and a nameplate from a former office.

The two ad industry execs have launched a new consultancy to help small and medium-sized enterprises “un-waste” their resources to drive sustainable growth.