-Sid Lee Paris helped Honda fans in France gain access to new CR-V and HR-V SUVs despite the country’s lack of Honda dealerships with its “#HondaNextDoor” campaign (video above).
-Former Publicis Groupe president of global clients Chris Foster has joined the board of Inmoji, a startup that sees the future of advertising in … monetized emojis. Other new members of its board include MIT lecturer and One Laptop per Child chairman Chuck Kane and ClickSoftware CEO Tom Heiser.
-Leo Burnett London hired McCann’s Craig Neilson as its new head of creative production and operations.
-R/GA beat out Droga5, BBDO and more to win Shutterstock’s annual Pixels of Fury contest in New York.
-National Geographic assigned brand marketing work to McCann New York following the agency’s 2017 Super Bowl campaign promoting the Genius series.
-Philadelphia’s LevLane won AOR duties for Jack Willams Tire.
-Amnesty International U.K. appointed VCCP as its strategic agency of record.
-Get ready for more six-second ads: nine of them during one football game on Thanksgiving.