It can never hurt to make data a little more fun, and that’s just what we’ve found with Brand Toys Reports, the latest addition to BrandZ’s personalized report set. Brand Toys Reports uses the latest BrandZ data to analyze thousands of brands and translate their key attributes into 3-D toy characters. (more...) 
Following WPP’s recent announcement of Roy Haddad’s new role as Director of WPP Middle East and North Africa (MENA), JWT is excited to announce further executive promotions in the region. Vatche Keverian will take on the role of CEO of JWT MENA and Chris von Selle is formally announced as COO JWT Africa. (more...) 
The WPP Atticus Awards results are out and JWT's finest have won recognition. WPP’s highly competitive Atticus Awards encourage thought leadership within WPP agencies by awarding original, published writing in communications. This year, JWT APAC and JWT New York/JWT Intelligence received awards and commendation for their outstanding strategic work. (more...) 
On May 3 & 4, WPP and Yahoo! came together to host the first WPP Hackday at Ogilvy's trendy digs in New York City. The challenge? Build a new product or service using Yahoo! + other open-source technologies. JWT has over 2,000 digital experts in its realms so we flew in a dedicated team of four of our smartest, from all corners of the network. A big cheers to Matt Payne, Head of Technology at JWT London; Peter Bailey, Systems Architect at JWT Dallas; Nick Davison, Director of Web Development at Digitaria and Mike Nelson, Lead User Interface Developer at Heath Wallace in London for coming together to make Flipmote in just over 24hrs. Hold on to your inner geek, because here comes the code-talk...
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