2024 saw some major chief marketing officer (CMO) moves. While brands including Starbucks and The Knot Worldwide promoted former marketers to the chief executive officer (CEO) office, others like Gap and Adobe finally filled their vacant CMO positions. Other advertisers such as Dove and Major League Baseball (MLB) saw long-time marketing bosses exit, where OpenAI...
Asian-fusion restaurant chain P.F. Chang's has appointed Sonika Patel as its new chief marketing officer, it announced today (Dec. 17). As CMO, Patel fills a position that has been vacant since Tana Davila left in 2022. She will lead P.F. Chang's global marketing strategy, executing a strategic vision around brand loyalty and customer engagement in...
For Greg Hahn, co-founder and chief creative officer of Mischief @ No Fixed Address, the riskiest thing a brand can do is be "ignorable." Mischief's own brand of creativity has been hard to ignore the past few years. Producing brave work for clients, from Goldfish's "Chilean Sea Bass" rebrand to Coors Light's "Time Capsule" spot,...
Men's grooming brand Duke Cannon has selected Quality Meats as its creative agency of record (AOR), it exclusively told ADWEEK. The agency will collaborate with the brand's internal team to develop campaigns that will "provide a fresh new take on men's grooming," according to a statement. Duke Cannon declined to disclose the size of its...
Amidst the news of Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group's (IPG) merger, IPG agency Deutsch announced it is promoting four department leaders to its C-suite. Ivan Perez-Armendariz will become chief digital officer; Heide Peper Hays will become chief data and intelligence officer; Diego de la Maza will become chief production officer; and Lauren Tetuan will become...
Major League Baseball's chief marketing officer Karin Timpione is leaving her role at the end of this year, both she and MLB confirmed to ADWEEK. She has yet to announce her next move. Timpone made the initial announcement on her LinkedIn page. "Thanks [to] my league and club colleagues for many seasons of excitement --...
BetMGM announced today that it has appointed Casey Hurbis as its chief marketing officer. Hurbis is the sports betting brand's first CMO since 2020. He will report to chief revenue officer Matt Prevost, who served as CMO prior to becoming the company's CRO. The new CMO brings over 30 years of consumer marketing experience to...
GroupM projects that the global advertising industry will surpass $1 trillion in total revenue for the first time this year. In its This Year Next Year 2024 End of Year Global Forecast, released today (Dec. 9), the WPP media investment firm estimates that global advertising revenue will increase 9.5% this year, up from the 7.8%...
Brands went bonkers for AI this past year, as they increasingly adopted the growing number of tools available to facilitate mundane tasks throughout the creative process and create new kinds of work. While consumers still feel conflicted about brands use of the technology, some marketing departments have found savings by leaning on generative AI in...
Spotify is the latest brand to face criticism for using generative AI in its highly anticipated end-of-year campaign, Wrapped, released yesterday (Dec. 4). Disgruntled users took to TikTok, X, and Reddit to air their grievances with the campaign's AI-powered features, calling the music streamer "lazy" and saying the work "flopped" for its lackluster design and...
Today (Dec. 5), wedding planning brand The Knot Worldwide announced the appointment of Raina Moskowitz as chief executive officer (CEO). She will succeed former CEO and founder Tim Chi, effective Jan. 21, 2025. Moskowitz is the latest chief marketing officer (CMO) to move into a CEO position. She joins from Etsy, where she served as...
Citibank's chief marketing and content officer Alex Craddock believes that despite the power of AI, the magic of great creative still comes from humans. Craddock joined Citi in May from BlackRock after a restructure to oversee its marketing department and set a new strategy for original content and thought leadership, ADWEEK reported at the time....
OpenAI has found its first chief marketing officer (CMO) in former Coinbase CMO Kate Rouch. At OpenAI, she will oversee marketing AI chatbot ChatGPT to consumer and enterprise audiences, reported Ad Age. More broadly, she will focus on communicating the company's mission to "develop AI as powerful as human cognition, known as artificial general intelligence...
Adobe has appointed former Intuit CMO Lara Balazs as chief marketing officer (CMO) and evp of global marketing, filling a post that has been vacant since February 2023. Balazs spent six years at Intuit, most recently as CMO and evp, general manager of the strategic partner group, where she helped reimagine the brand's marketing approach...
E.l.f. Cosmetics is expanding its sports marketing presence with its football-themed "Eyes. Lips. Face. Fandom." campaign. Created in partnership with 72andSunny Amsterdam, the beauty brand recruited The Kissing Booth actor, Joey King, and Emily in Paris star, Lucien Laviscount, for a spot promoting its Power Grip primer. The pair play a couple meeting the latter's...
In their latest effort to capitalize on lightning-fast internet trends, many brands have taken to social media to scream about...mustard. The condiment-related enthusiasm comes in response to Kendrick Lamar's new album, GNX, which surprise dropped on Friday (Nov. 22). Named after his ties to the 1987 Buick vehicle model, the 12-song album sees the rapper...
How much is Wicked's marketing budget? That was the million-dollar question on social media last week when an unverified photo of Paris's Arc de Triomphe seemingly lit up in green and pink to mark the movie's release appeared on X. Though the marketing spend for Universal Pictures' flick hasn't been disclosed publicly, its extensive range...
Norwegian soccer player Erling Haaland is no ordinary athlete. Beats by Dre enlisted the star footballer for a new spot called "Ordinary is for everyone else," highlighting Haaland's knack for unique training methods and his affinity for nature. Created by Uncommon Creative Studio, the ad sees the footballer using various Beats by Dre devices, like...
