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Job-Seeking Creatives Spare Creative Directors From Post-Award Show Hangover

If you are drunk and you are a creative director and you live in Hungary and you are handed an envelope by an attractive host at the Hipnozis Award show, you had better open it. Or at least we hope you opened it when it was handed to you last week at the event. And we hope you realized the two people who created it -- Zsofi Toth and Denes Szanto -- are two kick-ass creatives looking for work. And since they were nice enough to provide you aspirin for that nasty headache you were about to experience the next morning, the least you could do is check out their Friday Saver Project and grant them an interview. After all, not only was their stunt creative. It was a live saver to you as well. Hmm. Hopefully, come June, they are walking up and down Le Croisette in France with a Cannes Lions MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday Saver Project.

So the new ad agency, as you may have heard, will be all about inventing things rather than creating ads. Here's what Deutsch LA Chief Digital Officer Winston Binch has to say: "Agencies have been making products for a long time. Alcohol brands have been invented by plenty of agencies, for example. But it used to be an idea and you’d outsource the production. What’s different now is a lot more of it is technology, it’s digitally based. That requires new people in the building. There’s a lot of talk about invention right now in advertising. Its startup culture -- there’s the show Silicon Valley on HBO -- that culture is mainstream now. A lot of advertisers are grabbing on to it. Nike+ came about in 2006 right around when I left R/GA. That changed the ad world forever." And who cares how anyone finds out about these inventions, it would seem.

Two new creative teams have been appointed at TBWA\Chiat\Day LA. Marco Monteiro and Ana Carolina Reis join from AlmapBBDO in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Guy Helm joins from Mistress; and Chris Rodriguez joins from FCB LA, respectively. The appointments follow the promotion of Stephen Butler to chief creative officer, with Fabio Costa and Brent Anderson as ECDs. At AlmapBBDO, Marco and Carol worked together for over two years on brands including Volkswagen, Visa, PepsiCo, Bayer and Pedigree. The award-winning duo have a host of awards next to their names, including, most recently, a Gold and two Silver Lions from Cannes 2013. Prior to AlmapBBDO, Marco worked for Saatchi & Saatchi and Carol at Fallon. Prior to joining TBWA, Guy was the lead creative at Mistress, working with brands including Hot Wheels, Disney, KIND Snacks, Jagermeister and Playboy. Chris -- famed for Allstate’s “Mayhem” in addition to work for brands including Kraft, Hallmark, Bounty and Nike -- joins from FCB LA Bowen, where he held the position of senior art director.

Liberty Mutual, which last year launched an agency review after having spent years with Boston's Hill Holliday, has selected Jack Morton Worldwide as its agency of record. Liberty Mutual is the official property and casualty and life insurance partner of the 2014 and 2016 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams so Jack Morton will have their work cut out for those events. Of their selection of Jack Morton, Liberty Mutual Chief Communications Officer Paul Alexander said: “Major domestic and international sponsorships as well as numerous grassroots and local sponsorships are key factors in our brand awareness and business strategies. We are delighted to form a partnership with Jack Morton to help direct our overall sponsorship strategy and activation initiatives to maximize these sponsorships for employees, agents and brokers, customers and the general public.”  If interactive is to play a major role in the work, the agency's recent acquisition of Genuine Interactive should help.

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