Today JWT Canada announced two new exciting hires for the executive creative team tapping Ryan Spelliscy as Senior Vice President, Creative Director and Carolyn Bingham as the newly created role of Vice President, Creative Operations. They mark the first major hires by Brent Choi, Chief Creative and Integration Officer, since his appointment in January.
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Each Friday we package up the top trends, reports, articles and news bursts from the week. Our trends this week look at new tech innovations, Earth Day apathy and ‘Big Mother’ gadgets. Read about these trends and more on JWT Intelligence. 
Today the entire JWT network celebrated Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Bob Jeffrey's 15th anniversary with JWT. Our New York office gathered to commemorate this milestone and was joined by JWT offices around the globe via Twitter for a WORLDMADE celebration. A hallway full of balloons greeted Bob as the agency surprised him with champagne toasts, his own hashtag on Twitter and a very special guest performance. (more...) 
We are excited to announce that the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has appointed JWT Singapore as its agency of record. Led by Frank Bauer, JWT Singapore CEO, and Valerie Cheng, JWT Singapore CCO, the win is a truly spectacular victory for our APAC region, and also one that reflects JWT’s WORLDMADE talent and creativity. XM Asia, JWT’s digital arm, also triumphed and retained their title as STB’s digital agency, a role they have held for four years. (more...) 
Founded two and a half years ago by employees of JWT New York, Differenter has carved out a special place for diversity and inclusion programming at the agency, but still faces the challenge of keeping people on board with the movement after their successful events and programs end. To keep the wheels of diversity and inclusion turning between major events, they've created an online program called 24/7 Differenter.
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To celebrate the international launch of Brand Colombia, the country’s latest endeavor to promote tourism overseas, WPP’s Brand Colombia team (formed by JWT Colombia, GREY and MEC) launched an exciting interactive brand campaign at the heart of Times Square. The first-of-its-kind auction of Colombian Experiences could take you on a trip to this exciting South American destination. (more...)
This morning, the High Potentials, Class of 2013 arrived in the New York office for their Leadership Training Session. The program, which is also known as the HiP Club, is comprised of JWT talent from a variety of countries, offices and disciplines. Now in its tenth year, the program aims to recognize, reward, train and develop the “rising stars” and future leaders of JWT.
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Recognizing innovation and creative excellence, the CLIO Awards are a leading international awards competition for advertising, design, interactive and communications. Each year, top creative professionals from around the world are invited to serve on one of the Award’s ten distinct CLIO juries. And this year, four of JWT’s very own will take a seat on the Audio and Audio Technique, Digital/Mobile and Digital Technique, and the Print/Out of Home and Print Technique categories. (more...) Each Friday we package up the top trends, reports, articles and news bursts from the week. Our trends this week look at 100 Influentials, the future of cars, diaper-free kids. Read about these trends and more on JWT Intelligence. 
Today JWT Worldwide Chairman and CEO Bob Jeffrey and JWT Asia Pacific Chairman Michael Maedel signed an affiliation agreement with Mango Marketing in Myanmar. Reflecting JWT’s pioneering spirit and long history as an early mover in Asia, the agreement gives JWT a foothold in the region’s newest growth economy. JWT’s international expertise combined with Mango Marketing’s expert knowledge of the Myanmar market will help clients establish themselves among the country’s very large, emerging consumer class. (more...) 
A warm welcome to the new crop of creative talent joining JWT New York from Miami Ad School! Recruited through JWT New York's partnership with MAS, these seven smart and ad-savvy students will be hard at work, experiencing first-hand the real world of advertising. (more...) 
A newly launched quarterly survey from JWT London, called The Austerity Index, has found that prolonged economic adversity in Britain is drastically altering consumer spending habits. These tough times are producing a nation of savvy budget tacticians who rely on cost-cutting strategies to make their money go further---92% of Britons use at least one coping mechanism to save money. Tracey Follows, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Partner at JWT London, observes, "No group has escaped the bite of Austerity Britain."
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JWT London launched a new Serious Play campaign for HSBC last month in support of the financial group’s co-title sponsorship of the 2013 Cathay Pacific / HSBC Hong Kong Sevens tournament. To commemorate this weekend of celebration and sport, the agency created a spirited online film, complete with guest appearances from rugby's best players, as well as 10,000 Serious Play medallions that were handed out during the tournament.
(more...) Each Friday we package up the top trends, reports, articles and news bursts from the week. Our trends this week look at disownership, watered-down vice and SWUGs. Read about these trends and more on JWT Intelligence. 
Making an exciting announcement from Asia, JWT Asia Pacific CEO Tom Doctoroff announced today Junghwan Kim's promotion to managing director of JWT Korea. Kim will replace JongWoo Park, who will be leaving the agency after five years to pursue a new leadership role with a media company. (more...) 
Each year, the Association for the Promotion of French Advertising (AACC) invites promising advertising students to visit agencies across France. Contributing to JWT's history of firsts, JWT Paris wanted to do more than just open the doors to its agency. Using JWT's Worldmade creative philosophy, JWT Paris decided to showcase the breadth of our network by creating High Five, the world's first global speed recruiting video operation. Through five minute video interviews with JWTers from five offices across five continents, High Five gave fifty students the opportunity to land one of five internships outside France.
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Kicking off the 2013 awards season, creatives throughout the world gathered in the sunshine state for the 92nd ADC Awards Gala, an award show honoring creative excellence and innovation by the industry’s longest standing organization championing the visual arts, the Art Director’s Club. (more...) Each Friday we package up the top trends, reports, articles and news bursts from the week. Our trends this week look at healthier fast food, Facebook's evolution, and Hollywood's latest challenge. Read about these trends and more on JWT Intelligence. 
To mark ING’s sponsorship of the reopening of the historic Rijksmuseum, JWT Amsterdam brought the museum’s most famous work, Rembrandt’s 'Night Watch’ back to life. In an epic 17th-century style reenactment, thirty gentlemen dressed as members of the Shooting Company of Franc Bannick Cocq flooded the floor of an unsuspecting shopping center in the Dutch province of Brabant this past Friday. (more...)