Creative Industry Round-Up: Strategy hiring surges, social-first studios expand, and a studio outsources its own rebrand
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Katy Cowan
Summary
A monthly round-up of industry moves in the creative sector for June, highlighting three key trends: a surge in hiring for heads of strategy across agencies, the expansion of "social-first" studios building larger operations, and a notable case of a studio that outsourced its own rebrand to another team rather than handling it internally. The article covers hires, promotions, launches, and wins across the creative industry.
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"Social-first" studios are building empires.
After May's run of agencies redrawing their own identities, this month we've got the opposite instinct: a studio that decided the best thing it could do for its brand was let another team loose on it.
Read on for who's moving, who's launching, and who's worth keeping half an eye on.
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