Right here’s one we didn’t anticipate: FCB world CEO Carter Murray (beneath) is leaving in March to get replaced by a duo of North America CEO Tyler Turnbull and world CEO Susan Credle who additionally turns into world chair.
FCB is the second-largest inventive community in Interpublic after McCann Worldgroup. Underneath Murray the company, as soon as the unhappily welded Draft/FCB, recharged the community, received a lot of world accounts and community of the 12 months on the Cannes Lions Worldwide Pageant of Creativity for work together with its Chicago-based Boards of Change marketing campaign.
IPG says Murray is departing to “to pursue his subsequent problem outdoors of IPG” though, probably, extra will emerge. Often these strikes occur as a result of somebody has fallen out with somebody. IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky has been in submit for lower than a 12 months.
Credle says the problem now for FCB is: “How can we activate enterprise within the second whereas nonetheless constructing a model long-term? That’s our candy spot,” she says.
Seems like efficiency advertising and marketing within the ascendancy as soon as once more.
The amiable and succesful Murray could be fairly a seize for one of many new-style networks if he decides to remain in promoting.