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.

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Old Navy has promoted Sonia Syngal, who was formerly in charge of the global supply chain and operations for the company’s Gap brand, but it has lost its CMO of three years, Ivan Wicksteed. So reports AdAge.

Wicksteed was known for using celebrities including Julie Louis-Dreyfus and Amy Poehler in marketing campaigns.

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Neiman Marcus Chief Marketing Officer Wanda Gierhart is leaving the position to pursue other interests after having helped the retailer of luxury products build its mobile shopping experience and omnichannel. So reports the Dallas Business Journal.

According to an email to Neiman Marcus employees, Gierhart also helped the company build its social media program and adapt to other technologies.

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Chinese-Australian news outlets Vision China Times and The Epoch Times said more businesses are pulling advertisements from their papers after taking pressure from the Chinese government. So reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

John Xiao, the Melbourne-based The Epoch Times director, said he believes the Chinese government has put increased pressure on Chinese-Australian media. Hong Kong protests have led a number of companies to fear retaliation from the Chinese Communist Party.

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New Zealand’s Scroll Media is opening an Australian headquarters. So repots B and T.

The digital ad network was founded by Jane Ormsby and is comprised of a “consortium of digital publishers advertising across sponsored content, data, programmatic and native.” Sam Christie was appointed general manager in Australia to run the new office. Scroll Media boasts 16 publishers in Australia, reaching more than 4 million unique users monthly, and 20 New Zealand publishers.

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India’s Advertising Club handed out awards at its 19th annual celebration with Mindshare, Hindustan Unilever Limited, WATConsult and Mediacom India winning top awards. So reports Indian Television.

Mediacom was given the EMVIE for Media Agency of the Year, while Hindustan won Client of the Year. There were 1079 entries, a new record high, from 42 agencies.

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Japanese product advertisements in South Korea dipped dramatically as Japan continues to restrict exports from its neighbor. So reports The Korea Bizwire.

Management firm Media Audit Korea reported Japanese advertisements in television, newspaper, radio and magazines are down 76% in July and August 2019 from the same period the year before. "None of the Japanese non-banking financial institutions were found to have spent on advertising in July and August,” according to the article.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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