Havas UK

Exciting news coming from Havas Play UK this morning... a new partnership with Montirex LTD. 👏

Congrats, Patrick Affleck! The Media Leader UK's agency leader of the year 👊🏻

Not a *terrible* turnout @ Havas Village London for the footy. Big second half incoming! ⚽️⚽️⚽️ #euro2024

Today marks a significant milestone for Havas as we proudly unveil our new global strategic plan: #Converged. After a decade of our #Together strategy, this new chapter represents a bold step forward for our organization as we further foster global collaboration at Havas and announce significant investments. Within a fast-evolving communications landscape, Converged addresses our clients’ increasing need for cross-functional, fully integrated communications solutions driven by data, technology and AI. It will transform client experience by unlocking the full potential of our capabilities across all markets to offer hyper-personalized and meaningful solutions in real-time. Through our new groupwide Converged Operating System, fusing all our global talent, capabilities, platforms and expertise, we can make the strongest and most meaningful difference to brands and businesses. Within this transformation, one constant remains: strategic and creative excellence sit at the heart of everything we do and drive our success, as well as our clients’ growth. “I couldn’t be more excited about this transformative development for Havas. Aiming at supercharging our positive impact for our clients and contributing to shaping the future of the rapidly changing communications industry, our new Converged strategy will build even more bridges between creativity, media, production, and technology than ever before. We are building a model that is future-thought, agnostic in terms of data and tech partnerships and perfectly interoperable with our clients’ systems, to meet their needs even more swiftly and cost-effectively. Converged is a collective journey, as it marks a further acceleration in our growth journey, representing a cultural shift that will resonate across every level of our organization and ensure the success of our clients and partners.” Yannick Bolloré, Chairman and CEO of #Havas Read the full press release here > https://lnkd.in/eYwvD-X2

It’s coming home, or should we say – it’s coming Gnome. To celebrate the start of the hotly anticipated football event of the year, we’ve brought together the most popular phrase in England during any tournament, and Asda’s iconic Gnomes. The result? A tongue-in-cheek 96-sheet ode to Asda and the England team in Germany 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️

A huge well done to David Macmillan, CEO at Havas CX helia and James Fox CEO at Havas London, who have both been named as Campaign UK 40 over 40 winners 2024 👏 Read their full write-ups below: ⭐️ David Macmillan: https://lnkd.in/eW58KwPN ⭐️ James Fox: https://lnkd.in/eFi9SHyu

It's been a MEGA few days for Havas UK agencies on the awards circuit 🎉   Havas Play UK walked away from the Campaign UK Tech Awards with not just one but TWO wins, and a highly commended -   🥇 Best Integrated Campaign - EE 🥇 Tech as Part of a Campaign: Entertainment - Altitude Media Group, Talk to Me x Fortnite (with Havas Entertainment) 🥉 Best Use of Gaming - highly commended - Altitude Media Group, Talk to Me x Fortnite (with Havas Entertainment)   While at the Purpose Awards, Havas Red UK won yet ANOTHER gong for its work with NHS Blood and Transplant -   🥇 Best Health Cause Campaign (brand led) - National Blood Week ‘Giving Type’ for NHS Blood & Transplant Read more about the winning campaigns here: EE: https://lnkd.in/eVPMgBrf Altitude, Talk to Me x Fortnite: https://lnkd.in/edpAPhtf NHS Blood & Transplant: https://lnkd.in/eiMN5NSY Huge congratulations to all the teams involved 👏🏻 Havas #CxTechAwards #PurposeAwardsEMEA

Today, we helped our charity partner Bloomsbury Football, launch their first out of home campaign in partnership with JCDecaux UK. The campaign, featuring Bloomsbury players, aims to raise awareness of the great work they do to bring the power of football to thousands of young Londoners.    As a charity, Bloomsbury ensure that families only pay what they can afford, with 74% of players receiving some form of financial assistance; meaning that no player is turned away, and everyone gets to experience the power of football.   You can see it live across over 100 sites London over the next few weeks. To support their squad this summer, visit Bloomsbury Football to find out more: https://lnkd.in/dreUpiM Huge shoutout to the Play team who worked on this: Jesse White, Eli Camberg, Charlotte Smith, Josh Pinard, Issie Mandry, Tom Williams, Charlie Piggott and Gemma Gosden Photo credit: Joshua Bratt

We hear from a reliable source that the Cannes Lions PR Jury is in round two of judging entries, with Kat Thomas having hit the 500 mark! Check out what she had to say when she spoke to LBBonline - Little Black Book, as she kicked off the submission review process and made a few predictions for 2024…    https://lnkd.in/eaCKEcQp

Our CEO David Macmillan, sat down with LBBonline - Little Black Book as part of their latest Bossing It feature, to discuss his leadership journey - from learning key leadership values at The Scouts, to the importance of culture and why leadership is a team game. Read David's full POV via the 🔗 below.