Thursday Stir

By Erik Oster 


-Wunderman Thompson created a “Don’t Let ZSL Go Extinct” PSA for Zoological Society of London featuring the one and only David Attenborough (video above).

-Black advocacy nonprofit 600 & Rising named its inaugural board of directors.

-David & Goliath founder and chairman David Angelo says uprooting systemic racism needs to start at the top.

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Huge hired Judith Hoogenboom from SYPartners as global chief strategy officer. She succeeds Dick de Lange, who left Huge after around two years in that role.

-Publicis Groupe’s Daimler-dedicated unit, Publicis Emil, hired global chief transformation officer Conrad Fritzsch from Daimler.

-Pernod Ricard is developing an app to report online hate speech.

-LGBTQIA+ employee resource group McCannQ and McCann New York worked on pro bono social media campaign for Disclosure, a documentary on transgender depictions in film and television.

-Work, safety and lifestyle footwear company Red Wing Shoe named Droga5 as its newest creative agency partner, tasking the Accenture-owned shop with strategic and creative development for the brand’s experience-focused marketing efforts across North America.

-London creative agency Waste is using Animal Crossing: New Horizons to source new talent, offering players a chance at a three-month paid internship.

-Atlanta-based lease-purchase company Aaron’s appointed Nashville, Tenn.-based independent The Buntin Group as its media agency of record, following a review.

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