• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, January 20, 2017

Johannes Leonardo was named creative agency of record by MassMutual. Mullen was the incumbent and worked on the account since 2006.

New York-based consultancy Sunday Dinner handled the pitch process.

"It was clear that Johannes Leonardo's consumer-first values and approach to big ideas align with ours," said Jennifer Halloran, brand and advertising head at MassMutual. "The agency's award-winning work and diverse breadth of clients [such as Adidas, Google and Sonnet] demonstrates a category-and-channel-agnostic approach in delivering messaging to all consumers and flexing along the journey to remain fresh, relevant and resonating."

MassMutual spent $29.1 million on measured media in 2015 and $40.8 million the first nine months of 2016, per Kantar Media.