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Dentsu Creative Canada Appoints Ari Elkouby as Chief Crea...

Toronto, ON – April 28, 2025 – Dentsu Canada announced today the appointment of Ari Elkouby as its new Chief Creative Officer of Dentsu Creative Canada. A seasoned industry leader with a passion fo...
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Industry veteran Christine Saunders joins the network as ...

January 6, 2025 - Toronto, Canada - Joining the Canadian leadership team, Saunders will focus on accelerating the industry-leading agency’s media offering, driving growth through innovation and fue...
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Dentsu Named a Leader in Media Management Services by Ind...

London (UK), New York (US), Singapore - 13 November 2024 – dentsu today announced that it was named a Leader in ​[“The Forrester Wave™: Media Management Services, Q4 2024”] by Forrester Research, I...
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Dentsu Canada and Optable Announce Innovative Partnership

November 12, 2024 – Toronto, Canada - In a world where brands are losing signals from cookie deprecation to increasing privacy laws - highly awarded Dentsu Canada announces partnership with industr...
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Stephen Kiely named CEO of Tag Americas & Patrick Hounsel...

October 24, 2024 - Toronto, Canada – Dentsu Canada announced today the promotion of Patrick Hounsell to CEO. This role will see Patrick leading the Canadian market with the continued ambition to be...
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Jordan Doucette Named President of Dentsu Creative Canada

May 2, 2024 - Toronto, Canada – Dentsu Canada announced today that globally awarded Jordan Doucette is being promoted to President Dentsu Creative Canada.  Doucette will remain as Chief Creative Of...
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Dentsu Names Michael Komasinski CEO, Dentsu Americas

26th June, 2023 Dentsu Group Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004; President & CEO: Hiroshi Igarashi; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen) announced today that it has appointed ...
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Dentsu Canada appoints a New Chief Client Officer

Industry veteran Jennifer Lewis joins Carat Canada as Chief Client Officer.  Toronto, Canada (April 17, 2023)  – Dentsu Canada announced today that industry veteran Jennifer Lewis joins the Canadia...
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Dentsu Canada Doubles Down on Client Centricity

Promotes Tracey Johnson to Chief Client Officer, iProspect. Toronto, Canada (March 15, 2023) – As part of its ambition and commitment to become the most integrated agency network in the world, dent...
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Dentsu Canada appoints a New Executive Creative Director

Max joins Dentsu after a 7-year stint at Rethink.  Toronto, Canada (February 1, 2023) – Dentsu Creative has named Maxime Sauté as its newest Executive Creative Director, with the remit of “deliveri...
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Dentsu Creative hires Rafik Belmesk as Chief Strategy Off...

Rafik Belmesk joins Dentsu after a 6-year stint at TAXI a WPP agency.  Toronto, Canada (December 1, 2022) – Dentsu Creative has named Rafik Belmesk as its new Canadian Chief Strategy Officer, with ...
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Dentsu Canada Appoints a New Media Leader

Industry veteran Sarah Thompson joins the media network as President. Toronto, Canada (July 25, 2022) – Dentsu Canada announced today that industry veteran Sarah Thompson joins the Canadian leaders...
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Dentsu ad spend report predicts continued growth through ...

London (UK), 13 July 2022: Advertising investment is forecast to grow by 8.7% globally in 2022, according to the latest dentsu Global Ad Spend Forecast report. The twice-yearly report which combine...
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Introducing Dentsu Creative: A global network harnessing ...

Cannes, France (20 June 2022) - Dentsu International’s Global CEO, Wendy Clark, and Global CCO Fred Levron announced the launch of Dentsu Creative, dentsu’s global creative network, at Cannes Lions...
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Dyslexia Canada Commandeers the Popularity of Wordle to ...

Toronto, Canada (May 16, 2022) – For many Canadians, word challenges like crossword puzzles, crypto quotes, or jumbles are fun pastimes that help get the mind going each morning. But for millions o...
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Dentsu International Promotes Stephen Kiely to CEO of Canada

Jeff Greenspoon continues to lead Americas Solutions as President Toronto, Canada – Dentsu Canada announced today the promotion of Stephen Kiely to CEO. This role will see Stephen leading the Canad...
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Dentsu Canada accelerates healthcare offering with recent...

Toronto, ON (April 28, 2022) - Dentsu Canada announced today the merger of Antibody, Canada’s premier full-service communications agency, with dentsu health. The merger follows on the heels of rapi...
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Subway® Hits Refresh With Pro Athletes In Brand Relaunch ...

Toronto, ON (April 26, 2022) – As Subway continues to evolve and improve, the brand is hitting refresh after asking and listening to what Canadians are saying. Enter: The Eat Fresh™ Refresh – The k...
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Dentsu Canada’s Customer Experience agency, Merkle Expand...

Montreal, QC (March 30) – As part of dentsu’s continued focus to strengthen its customer experience management (CXM) offering in Canada, the network announced today the expansion of its CXM service...
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Dentsu’s iProspect Bolstering Strategic Capabilities with...

Toronto, Canada – (March 29, 2022) – As part of our ambition and commitment to deliver to our clients the most modern media offering in the market, dentsu Canada announced today three key leadershi...
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dentsumcgarrybowen Montreal announces three new promotions

Montreal, Canada – (March 17, 2022) – Julien Thiry and Michael Aronson have been named Executive Creative Directors for dentsumcgarrybowen Canada. With years of experience working with a wide range...
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dentsu Presents The First Noel Livestream

Toronto, Canada – (December 2021) –This holiday season, the dentsu network of agencies sent emails to their clients and partners promising the First Noel Livestream at dentsunoel.com. When people c...
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New cheese-y jingles show Canadians are singing Armstrong...

Toronto, Canada – (Oct 18, 2021) – Canadians eat a lot of cheese – annually, each Canadian eats almost 13kg of it. When it comes to choosing a cheese from the dairy aisle, Canadians aren’t particul...
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Dentsu Aegis Network Appoints Christena Pyle As Chief Equ...

Dentsu Aegis Network announced today that Christena Pyle has been named Chief Equity Officer, Americas. She will join the company on August 31, reporting to Jacki Kelley, CEO, Americas.  Christena ...

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