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    Ronald Ng Named Global Chief Creative Officer of MRM

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    NEW YORK --

    MRM, a marketing agency that is part of McCann Worldgroup, has named Ronald Ng its EVP, global chief creative officer. He will be based in the agency’s New York office. Ng moves to MRM from his role as global CCO at Isobar.

    Kate MacNevin, global CEO, MRM, said, “Ronald is an incredible talent with a passion for creative technology and a record of innovation that makes him the perfect global creative leader for MRM as we continue to leverage data, analytics and technology capabilities across our network, and expand our offerings in a creatively synchronized way to solve brand challenges for our clients.”

    Ng joined Isobar in 2018, and helped lead the company to its most successful year at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2019, and across all WARC-ranked global shows for creativity in e-Commerce, Data and Operational Transformation.

    “We are making a huge bet on MRM being even more of a force for McCann Worldgroup going forward, so adding the highest caliber talent is priority number one,” said Rob Reilly, global creative chairman of McCann Worldgroup. “But you also need that talent to be wildly inspiring and genuinely a good person. Ronald is the gold standard when it comes to this rare combination.”

    Ng studied journalism, advertising and broadcasting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and began his career as a copywriter at JWT Malaysia. He rose up the ranks in the Malaysian agency world, first at McCann Worldgroup, then Bozell, Saatchi & Saatchi and finally BBDO, where he became CCO. Ng moved back to the U.S. to serve as EVP/executive creative director for BBDO Worldwide in New York, then CCO of BBDO Singapore. He moved to Digitas North America, first as CCO, North America, then as global CCO, where he led the agency to win the Cannes Lions Creative Data Grand Prix and a ranking of No.1 Digital Agency in the world in the WARC rankings. In 2018, he was recruited to the role of global CCO at Isobar. At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2021, Ng will serve as jury president of the inaugural Creative Business Transformation Lions category.

    Ng said, “MRM is uniquely organized to help brands win by building meaningful relationships with people. I can’t wait to partner with Kate, Rob, the teams and clients to connect the dots between technology, data, commerce and strategy, and supercharge it all with creativity. When we crack the code for innovative experiences, there is unlimited potential for what we can achieve together.”

    MRM, which this year was designated for the fourth straight year as a “Leader” in Gartner Inc.’s prestigious “Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies,” has been significantly expanding its data, analytics and technology capabilities over the last few years. It continued to grow its global MRM Commerce capabilities, created and launched four new proprietary data and analytics software programs that generate insights faster and more meaningfully for clients, further leveraged innovative partnerships with Salesforce and Adobe, opened additional international LAB13 innovation labs and introduced expanded capabilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI), that included registering a number of patents. Additionally, the agency was recently named Agency Of The Year at the 2020 Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) B2 Awards.

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    World War Seven Adds Comedy Directing Duo Mister To Its Roster

    Monday, January 12, 2026

    World War Seven has added directorial duo Mister (comprised of Miche Sieg and Rose Chirillo) to its roster of talent. If you’re wondering why those look like girls’ names, it’s because they are. And if you’re wondering why two girls go by Mister, it’s because their combined initials are MR, and they thought maybe branding themselves like men would help them get a job. (Surprise! It did.)

    Mister’s journey to becoming sought-after comedy directors arrived after 10 years as advertising creatives, but not before a pit-stop in parody ads for real products (and then a side-quest in deciding they would rather make the products themselves). After spending years developing award-winning work for myriad brands as agency creative directors, Sieg and Chirillo decided that they wanted to make the ads themselves too, so they pivoted to directing.

    So began a journey into helming hilarious and mildly unsettling campaigns for brands like Peelz, Orangetheory, Manscaped, GoDaddy, Hot Pockets, JanSport, and ESPN--shooting stomach puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and talking cows for creative briefs that demand Mister’s offbeat brand of fun. Prior to joining World War Seven, Mister had most recently been repped by Greenpoint Pictures.

    From their earliest days as directors, Mister became known for creating witty and wondrous worlds, beginning with their fever-dreamy anti-vaping campaign for Truth. Building upon the universe they created for Truth’s fake vape brand, Depression Stick, the campaign kick-started Mister’s love affair with surreal, slightly unhinged world-building.

    Always committed to the bit, Mister created parody ads for real, absurd products like Cock Block--a cutting board named after the shape it’s cut in--and A Pair of... Read More

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