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    Hope Nardini Joins Johannes Leonardo As Creative Director

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    Hope Nardini
    NEW YORK --

    Johannes Leonardo has brought Hope Nardini on board as creative director A multi-award winner with experience driving creative ideation across teams, Nardini joins the agency with a specific focus on the MassMutual account alongside creative director Kevin Watkins. Nardini will report directly to co-founders Jan Jacobs and Leo Premutico at Johannes Leonardo’s headquarters in New York.

    Nardini comes over to Johannes Leonardo from McCann New York where she was an associate creative director responsible for the Verizon account, among others. Nardini’s team created Verizon’s emotional standout “First Responders” Super Bowl spot in 2018. Over the course of her career Nardini has been at agencies Leo Burnett and BBDO in Chicago where she wrote for Cheez-It, Esurance, Raid and 5 Gum. Her work has been recognized by the Cannes Lions fest, Clios, One Show and the Effies competition.

    Johannes Leonardo’s hire of Nardini comes at a time of significant growth for the agency and follows the appointment of Samira Ansari as the shop’s new group creative director from Grey New York.

    “The industry knows Johannes Leonardo for its high caliber of creativity. They set the bar really high,” said Nardini. “I am excited to be part of their growing team and work alongside some of the best in the business.”

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    Jared Kushner Pulls Out Of Paramount’s Hostile Bid For Warner Bros. Discovery

    Wednesday, December 17, 2025

    A private equity firm owned by President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount's hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed Tuesday.

    Days after Warner agreed to be bought by Netflix in early December, Paramount launched a rival bid that seeks to bypass Warner's management and appeal directly to its shareholders with more money. Paramount is offering $30 per Warner share to Netflix's $27.75.

    Warner, one of the "big five" Hollywood studios, owns Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO, the DC Comics universe and the Harry Potter franchise. Experts say its acquisition could supercharge the winning company and reshape the streaming wars, either by catapulting Netflix further ahead of top competitors or by cementing a new power player in Paramount.

    Paramount, which is significantly smaller than Netflix, said its decision to circumvent Warner's top managers came after they "never engaged meaningfully" with several earlier offers by the company.

    Paramount made the details of its new offer public and gave Warner shareholders an option to tender their shares — selling them directly at a set price — in support of its bid. The company is offering to buy Warner's entire portfolio, including cable networks like CNN that Netflix excluded from its bid.

    In its appeal to shareholders, Paramount argued its offer may be more likely to pass regulatory scrutiny from the Trump administration.

    The president has said the Warner and Netflix deal "could be a problem" due to the size of the combined market share.

    Kushner's decision to pull his firm's financial backing takes away a possible Paramount advantage to win over Trump. The amount Kushner's Affinity Partners was contributing to the... Read More

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