AMV BBDO, London, has appointed four new creative partners–hiring Andre Sallowicz who comes over from adam&eveDDB, London, where he’s been a creative director, and promoting three creative directors from within to creative partners–Michael Jones, Thomas Hazledine and Polina Zabrodskaya.
Jones and Hazledine both have over 20 years of experience providing creative leadership and pitch winning campaigns for many the world’s biggest brands in both hemispheres and have been recognized along the way at every major international award show including Cannes Lions and D&AD. They’ve worked on a vast range of clients from London Fashion Week to The Economist to Guinness to Viagra. Most recently they’ve led the creative output for Bombay Sapphire, Meta Portal and Macmillan Cancer Support, including the recently launched “Whatever you need,” designed to drive access to the charity’s support services and shine a light on the often-unseen areas of the organization and the people who are on hand to support people living with cancer every day.
Working on Adidas, Heineken and Mars Petcare for nearly five years, Sallowicz will partner with newly promoted Zabrodskaya, who joined the agency as creative director in 2018. Since then, Zabrodskaya has been creating award-winning work across multiple brands, including Maltesers, Plenty, Bombay Sapphire and Valuable 500. Prior to adam&eveDDB, Sallowicz worked at Colenso BBDO (New Zealand) and AlmapBBDO (Brazil). In 2016, he was named the number one art director in the world by the Cannes International Festival of Creativity and The World Creative Rankings. In the last few years, he created the much-lauded “Don’t spread the hate” campaign for Marmite and such work as DB Export’s “Brewtroleum” and The Pedigree’s “Child Replacement Programme”.
In a joint statement, AMV BBDO’s chief creative officers Nicholas Hulley and Nadja Lossgott shared, “To be able to nurture and promote our own incredible talent with Polina, MJ and Tom and to grow our department with world class talent like Andre makes us very happy. All four are brilliant and kind. And we can’t wait to see them lead the next wave of creative and effective work.”.
Sallowicz joins AMV BBDO this month, with Jones, Hazledine and Zabrodskaya’s promotions effective immediately.
More than 67 million people watched Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debate. That’s way up from June
An estimated 67.1 million people watched the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a sharp increase from the June debate that eventually led to President Joe Biden dropping out of the race.
The debate was run by ABC News but shown on 17 different networks, the Nielsen company said. The Trump-Biden debate in June was seen by 51.3 million people.
Tuesday's count was short of the record viewership for a presidential debate, when 84 million people saw Trump's and Hillary Clinton's first faceoff in 2016. The first debate between Biden and Trump in 2020 reached 73.1 million people.
With Harris widely perceived to have outperformed Trump on Tuesday night, the former president and his supporters are sharply criticizing ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. The journalists waded into on-the-fly fact checks during the debate, correcting four statements by Trump.
No other debates are currently scheduled between the two presidential candidates, although there's been some talk about it and Fox News Channel has publicly offered alternatives. CBS will host a vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance.
Tuesday's debate stakes were high to begin with, not only because of the impending election itself but because the last presidential debate uncorked a series of events that ended several weeks later with Biden's withdrawal from the race after his performance was widely panned.
Opinions on how ABC handled the latest debate Tuesday were, in a large sense, a Rorschach test on how supporters of both sides felt about how it went. MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes sent a message on X that the ABC moderators were doing an "excellent" job — only to be answered by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who said,... Read More