Shauna Lewis

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Shauna is a reporter at Campaign. Contact her at [email protected].

Michael Winner, the frontman of iconic Esure adverts.

Esure appoints creative agency to revive 'sleeping giant' brands

Appointment follows Esure Group appointing VCCP Media to its media planning and buying account.

Halfords logo on the side of a Halfords store

Halfords appoints media planning and buying agency to £20m account

The appointment follows a four-way competitive pitch.

A man stands in front of his family with many beach props. He is surveying the area and they are looking at him in distress.

Asda unveils new brand identity and summer campaign

Campaign was created by Havas London.

A young woman listens to the radio in front of her computer.

Radio 'on a roll' as commercial stations reach record listening figures

Commercial radio’s weekly audience grew by one million people year on year.

Clockwise from top left: Indy Saha, Lucy Bristowe, David Amodio and Jo Jacques.

Movers & Shakers: Mother, Dentsu, McCann, Publicis, TBWA, Amazon, Wonderhood, Merlin and more

Welcome to Campaign's weekly round-up of the hires, departures and promotions across the industry.

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ITV announces inaugural Head First competition winner

More than 70 brands pitched for the prize.

Giles Graham headshot.

Assembly poaches managing partner from Group M

Role will report to Matt Adams, chief executive, Europe.

From left to right: Henry Daglish, Marnie McBride and Detch Singh.

Bicycle London launches influencer division

Agency has partnered with Australian influencer agency Hypetap to create the division.

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Standard Life and SunLife owner appoints media agency

The incumbent on the account was Ptarmigan.

Clockwise from top left: Rowena Vithlani; Lucy Murray and Anjali Patel; Paul Bland and Dave Randall.

Movers and Shakers: Publicis, McCann, Jellyfish, W&K, Havas, Assembly, Mail Metro Media and more

Welcome to Campaign's weekly round-up of hires, departures and promotions across the industry.

A girl scrolls on her phone.

Agencies caution advertisers against knee-jerk response to rise of social media

Warc’s Social Media Reaches New Peaks report revealed that social media is now the largest channel in the world in terms of adspend.

A woman draws a bar chart slowly increasing each year (2020-2024)/

Ebiquity predicts 'more positive' advertising outlook for 2024

Media consultancy's revenue jumped from £75.1m to £80.2m year on year in 2023.

WHSmith store.

WHSmith appoints search and social agency

Incumbent on the account was Equimedia.

A bird flies across the screen with the tagline "Colour in your garden".

Westland picks media planning and buying agency

Horticulture brand spends around £2.5m annually on media.

Luke Smith

Croud secures £34m funding for 'ambitious growth plans'

The business previously received private equity backing from LDC in 2019.

Clockwise from top left: Matt Jennings, Sunny Bhurji, Ekin Caglar and Mandy Gould.

Movers & Shakers: Ogilvy, Confused.com, The Kite Factory, Sky, T&Pm, Tesco Media, Atomic and more

Welcome to Campaign's weekly round-up of the hires, departures and promotions across the industry.

An image of three packets of Graze.

Woman argues with herself over Graze Crunch in first TV ad by Adam & Eve/DDB

Ad features the voice of Motherland's Diane Morgan.

Beko "The Beko inheritance" by VML

Beko appoints media agency following competitive pitch

Wunderman Thompson was appointed to the creative account last year.

Figure of person walking through a door while a group stand at another door looking on

'Devastating': What happens when an agency loses a top client

One in five agencies participating in this year’s School Reports lost one of their biggest-spending clients in 2023 – so how did they cope?

Clockwise from top left: Nishma Patel Robb, Jemima Monies, Josh Krichefski, Benita Meswania, Katrina Bozicevich and Sam Smith.