Thursday Odds and Ends

By Erik Oster 


-BBDO India launched “#ShareTheLoad” for P&G India  laundry detergent brand Ariel (video above).

-Chili’s appointed 360i as its digital marketing agency.

-Martin Williams appointed Greg Brinker as senior vice president, director of account management and Lori Yeager Davis as senior vice president, director of engagement.

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-Today a bunch of activists sent a letter to Beer Institute CEO James A. McGreevy III asking for stricter regulations on alcohol advertising to protect children. (SPOILER: It won’t work.)

-Destination Medical Center Economic Development Agency (DMC EDA) and Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) both recently chose to work with Minneapolis-based agency Clarity Coverdale Fury.

-Foster Farms, which recently picked Deutsch as its creative AOR, sent its shopper marketing account to Westbury, New York’s Centra360.

-RKCR/Y&R beat out adam&eveDDB to win the U.K. Premier League account.

-Facebook launched Canvas, its take on Instant Articles for advertisers.

-Havas reported organic growth of 5.1 percent for 2015.

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