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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Jennie Dill, Chief Marketing Officer of McDonald’s Australia, has departed her post to seek new career opportunities outside the company. So reports Mumbrella.

Dill spent four years with the company. She has help strengthen the company’s marketing teams, created communication platforms for the brand, focused on iconic core products and engaged in rapid digital acceleration.

Under her leadership, McDonald’s Australia consolidated its agencies. McDonald’s Australia is currently seeking a new CMO.

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Australian businesses contributed to a second-quarter slump for News Corp, as print advertising in the country saw a 5% dip in sales. So reports Print 21.

Revenue from The Australian, Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun and the Dow Jones newswire all dropped. Overall, however, revenue for the year was up US$228 million, representing a 12% jump year over year.

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A series of 78 outdoor advertisements on bus stops around Australia have been replaced with artwork from more than 40 creatives who are protesting inaction on climate change. So reports Mumbrella.

The artwork, focused in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, is part of the “Bushfire Brandalism protest art project.” The artwork has a “call to action” and a QR code linking to a charity the artist selected.

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A new service called Scale Powered by PR aims to help industry executive find more skilled freelancers by “providing best-practice guidance and learning opportunities.” So reports Campaign Asia.

The initiative is a joint venture between Honda Office and Vector, a large agency based in Tokyo. The service was inspired by a growing number of Japanese freelance PR practitioners and a lack of “educational resources and consistency in the sector.”

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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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