Category: Awards

Ad Age Best Places to Work 2020 honors 50 companies that have figured out what works. The winning workplaces—25 companies with 200 or fewer employees and 25 companies with more than 200 employees—reflect the highest overall numerical scores based on an analysis of questionnaires submitted by employers and survey responses from thousands of their employees. Ad

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IPG media agency UM won its first-ever Entertainment Lions Grand Prix win for “5B,” the documentary film celebrating the heroic nurses who established San Francisco’s first HIV ward. Commissioned by Johnson & Johnson and executive produced by UM Studios, the film received the Grand Prix for “Entertainment Lions—Non-fiction Film Over 30 Min.” It also won

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Brendan Gaul says although the Johnson & Johnson documentary ‘5B’ is based on a 35-year-old story, it is ‘more relevant’ today. IPG Mediabrands’ UM Studios takes home its first Cannes Lions Grand Prix, in Entertainment—a big win for the media agency’s content studio. The win is for “5B,” a documentary UM Studios produced for client Johnson & Johnson on the San

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With its “Unity 2040” initiative, the Interpublic Group of Cos.-owned media agency UM aims to have an employee diversity mix in 2020 that reflects what the U.S. population is projected to be in 2040. It seems to be well on its way: Currently, 55 percent of senior management is female and 25 percent of senior management

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UM captured four wins and three finalists at this year’s OMMA Mediapost Awards, withe Tourism Australia’s Dundee: The Son Of A Legend Returns Home continuing it’s winning streak on the 2018 awards circuit. Dundee: The Son Of A Legend Returns Home from UM New York was responsible for all four of UM’s wins on the evening, earning

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JP Aguirre Executive VP, managing director and global managing partner, UM At 39, JP Aguirre is one of the youngest global managing partners at the IPG Mediabrands agency UM and the first Latino member of UM’s global leadership team. Under his co-leadership, the San Francisco office of UM has won accounts including Columbia Sportswear, Fitbit,

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In this ever-expanding brand marketing ecosystem, the challenge for advertisers to effectively reach their targeted audience calls for an audacious media plan. Sometimes it’s a simple execution with a powerful message, and then there’s a need for an off-the-wall, completely bonkers campaign to cut through the clutter. This year’s crop of Media Plan of the

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