It's hard to keep up with all the latest moves across media, marketing and advertising, so we've made a list. Check out the biggest moves in adland this week.
Havas Media appoints client services director
Havas Media has appointed Damien Terakes as their client services director. Terakes takes on a senior management role across all Havas Media clients in Australia and several global accounts. He has more than 30 years’ experience as a senior media professional and is joining from Initiative where he spent the last four years. Terakes is coming from a client partner role that he held for the last four years and has established himself as a media leader. He has led multiple large global clients and a range of Australian brands in the automotive, retail, technology and entertainment categories.
APN Outdoor adds to data and insights team
APN Outdoor has appointed a new head of data and insights and two data scientists, Kevin Morrell, Derek Slone-Zhen and Kevin Zhang. Morrell was most recently head of data and analytics at Southern Cross Austereo. His resume includes senior data, analytics, segmentation and customer interactions roles at BT Financial Group, Bridge and ING Direct Australia. Derek Slone-Zhen and Kevin Zhang join as data scientists. Slone-Zhen is currently senior manager, insight analytics, at PwC Australia and has been closely involved in the development and launch of Dn’A for APN Outdoor. Slone-Zhen has also held senior data roles at Data Republic, Quantium and Seven West Media. Zhang is currently lead data scientist, business analytics, at cubic corporation and has held senior data scientist and quantitative analyst roles at Westpac, Origin Energy and Crown Resorts.
Junkee hires new editor
Youth publisher Junkee Media have appointed Rae Johnston as the new editor of their flagship title, Junkee. Johnston joins Junkee Media from Gizmodo where she was the editor for ten months. She is also the co-host of “That Start Up Show” with Benjamin Law, and host of Rewired on NITV. Johnston has been with Allure Media since 2015, also serving as the commercial editor for Business Insider, Gizmodo, Kotaku and Lifehacker.
Nine announces new appointments for 9Honey
Nine has appointed Shauna Anderson as the editor of the women’s lifestyle website 9Honey as it builds out its offering after being in the market for over 18 months. Anderson, who was most recently news editor of Kidspot, will take over the running of the lifestyle website. Anderson, who will take up her new role in October, has previously held senior editing positions at Mamamia as well as Kidspot. Prior to that she was a chief of staff for The Today Show. The appointment of Anderson follows the promotion of launch editor, Kerri Elstub, to the role of digital editorial director in early July. Elstub continues to report to McCabe but now oversees editorial on all of Nine’s digital lifestyle, news and sport sites: 9honey.com.au, nine.com.au, 9news.com.au and WWOS.com.au. Nine also confirmed that as part of the changes, 9Honey deputy editor, Julia Naughton, will be promoted to the new role of managing editor of lifestyle.
Cummins&Partners employ head of brand strategy
Michael Hyde has joined Cummins&Partners as head of brand strategy. Hyde has gained experience having worked across creative and media over his 18 years in the industry. He was most recently planning director at Y&R Melbourne and prior to that headed up strategy at Carat following six years at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne. Over his career, Michael has won multiple effectiveness and creative awards for clients ranging from Four’n Twenty to Schweppes to Public Transport Victoria, Defence Force Recruiting and many more in between.
Network Ten appoint national creative director of Ten Imagine
Network has appointed Michael Stanford as national creative director in its newly forme Ten’s sales division, following its split from MCN. Stanford, who is currently chief creative solutions officer at initiative will join Ten, reporting to Chief Sales Officer Rod Prosser. In his new role, Stanford will be responsible for the creative and category specialist divisions across Ten’s advertising sales department and will also oversee the network’s commercial production department. Stanford has been chief creative solutions officer at Initiative since January 2017. His resume includes roles such as managing director of Interpublic Group’s brand experience agency Ensemble Australia; national creative director of Network Ten’s generate division; executive creative director and partner at Marketing Investment Group; executive creative director at Y&R; and creative director at McCann Erickson Australia.
REA Group's Libby Minogue exits business
REA Group’s EGM of media and content Elizabeth (Libby) Minogue will be leaving the company after three years. In her time at REA Group, Minogue has built and led teams across media, brand marketing, social/content and programmatic. Read more here
Darren Spiller exits Host/Havas after 18 months
Host/Havas chief creative officer Darren Spiller will exit the agency after just 18 months in the role. Spiller joined Host in 2017 from DDB where he spent five years. He then assumed the same role at at Host/Havas when the two agencies merged. Spiller’s role will not be replaced with his duties being shared amongst the agency ECD's Seamus Higgins, Ant Melder and Jon Austin. Read more here.
Ex-Droga5 CEO Sudeep Gohil returns to Australia for KPMG role
KPMG Australia has appointed former Droga5 Australia CEO Sudeep Gohil as its head of brand. He will work within KPMG’s Customer, Brand and Marketing Advisory services division helping clients with brand strategy and providing strategic guidance to KPMG’s own brand and market position. Gohil had worked at the Aussie creative shop for eight years, having been the top boss from 2012-2015 before the shop shut. Read more here.
News Corp backflips as Patrick Delany returns as MCN chairperson
News Corp has reversed the recent appointment of its chief financial officer Stacey Brown to chairperson of its majority owned ad sales house MCN. Despite confirming Brown would replace Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany following his promotion to Foxtel CEO in January, succeeding Peter Tonagh, it seems Delany has now been reinstated. Read more here.
Posterscope promotes two
Out of home agency Posterscope has promoted Ryan Hedditch to the newly created position of national head of strategy and Samantha Summers to Sydney group business director. In his new role, Hedditch is charged with driving the improvement and transformation of the Posterscope offering to clients and partners. Summers' promotion will see her lead the Sydney out-of-home media specialists and drive business value across Posterscope’s media agency relationships. Both will sit on the executive leadership team and report into MD Bryan Magee.
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