Facebook has promoted Alex Schultz, vice president of growth and analytics, to CMO. So reports Forbes.

Schultz will oversee the consumer marketing team and maintain his current role leading Facebook’s “analytics, product growth and internationalization initiatives.”

He will report to Javier Olian, VP of growth. Chris Cox, chief product officer, will keep creative oversight.

Schultz, a longtime member of the social network’s growth team, joined Facebook in 2007. He replaces Antonio Lucio, who recently said he was leaving Facebook to focus on diversity consulting. The last few years Schultz has focused on Facebook’s brand safety and improving community standards.

Read the full article from Forbes.

Vice Media Group has named Nadja Bellan-White to spearhead its global brand-storytelling efforts. So reports Variety.

Bellan-White, who has more than two decades of experience in marketing and advertising, will start at the end of the month and report to CEO Nancy Dubuc. She joins from WPP’s Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, where she was executive partner and managed the account for Unilever’s Dove.

Bellan-White replaces Guy Slattery, who is leaving the role and the company after nearly five years.

Vice Media Group’s businesses include Vice News, Vice.com, among others.

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Under Armour’s stock price dropped 3.9% in premarket trading last week in response to news that Digital Officer Robin Thurston and Chief Merchandising Officer Harry Stafford are leaving the company. So reports MarketWatch.

Thurston has worked at Under Armour for two and a half years and Stafford has been with the company for six years.

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Bruce McColl is stepping down from his position as global chief marketing officer with candy, food, and petcare company Mars after working for the company for 24 years. So reports AdAge.

Andrew Clarke, who is the company’s chief customer officer, will assume McColl’s responsibilities in a new position that combines his current role with the role of chief marketing officer.

Read the full article from AdAge.

Australia’s Interactive Advertising Bureau has offered guidance to traditional brands during tough marketing conditions resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic. So reports The Drum.

“Brands need to understand the opportunity of direct-to-consumer, including the value of using new channels and routes to market that offer first-party data relationships, return to a clear brand purpose and position the brand as a master of a category to demonstrate authority,” according to the article. Further, they should also employ an agile trial and error marketing approach, it states.

Read the full story from The Drum.

An online survey sponsored by Ad News shows an enormous majority of advertising respondents—more than 91%— are worried for their jobs in the wake of the global health crisis. So reports Ad News.

Many expect the industry’s recovery period will be sometime between a year and two. “Among the more positive, respondents viewed the pandemic as an opportunity for innovation, a return to effectiveness and brand-building over cost-cutting and a move to further flexible working arrangements,” according to the article.

Read the full article from Ad News.

Clear Channel sold its Chinese business for $253 million and announced additional cost-cutting measures as it grapples with virus-related obstacles. So reports City A.M.

The outdoor ad firm is selling its majority stake of subsidiary Clear Media to a consortium of investors including Clear Media head Han Zi Jing and competitor ad company JC Decaux. Clear Channel expects to use the proceeds to “improve its liquidity position and increase financial flexibility,” according to the article.

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Facebook has filed a lawsuit against Basant Gajjar, a Bangkok-based engineer, whose company gives advertisers the ability to circumvent the social media giant’s ad filters. So reports Campaign Asia-Pacific.

The cloaking service has allegedly allowed “hundreds” of deceptive advertisements to run, including some related to COVID-19. LeadCloak, the company at the heart of the lawsuit, has been offering these services for years.

The company is also planning to use the lawsuit as a means to identify LeadCloak’s customers in order to take action against them.

Read the full article from Campaign Asia-Pacific.

The marketing campaign for Rev. Franklin Graham's “Time for Hope' Festival” is facing tough opposition from the British town of Blackpool's transportation authority after increasing pressure from LGBT groups and on social media. So reports CBN News.

The promos were on the side of double-decker buses. Graham preaches the biblical view of marriage between one man and one women. The transportation agency said it does not endorse the content of the advertisements placed on its buses, the story reads.

Read the full article from CBN News.

A marketing series from DDB Group Düsseldorf won high praise at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and, as such, has seen English translations of the advertisements spread through social media platforms. So reports Adweek.

The “Highlight the Remarkable” campaign created to sell the Stabilo Boss highlighter features historic, black-and-white photos with a streak denoting “remarkable” women. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner and U.S. First Lady Edith Wilson were among the featured women.

Read the full story from Adweek.

Italy’s Serie A soccer league expressed concerns about a new ban on advertising from betting companies. So reports Euronews. 

The "dignity decree" is a package of measures aimed at limiting contracts and penalizing companies moving offshore, but also prohibits advertising "all forms of gambling."

Estimates from the league expect state coffers to absorb a loss of 700 million euros, according to the article, as a result of the advertising ban.

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Google will wait until August to join a consortium of advertising technology companies seeking to comply with Europe's new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). So reports ChannelNewsAsia.

The tech giant's delayed entry will leave some ad tech firms exposed to fines, though, according to reports from several people involved with the effort

Google has yet to adopt the consent framework and consortium standard. 

Read the full article from Channel News Asia.