According to Ad Age, GSD&M is yet another once-vaunted agency struggling to cope with the times: When GSD&M staffers arrive at work today they'll be surprised with a visit from one client, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem. They'll also be treated to video well wishes from bold-name friends Bill Clinton and author Jim Collins. It's all in celebration of changes in its day-to-day management and the hanging of a new …
DDB, Fallon, And Agencies That Go Up And Down
In today's Chicago Sun-Times, Lewis Lazare takes a look at what's going on at DDB Chicago: Dick Rogers finally lost his confidence in Dana Anderson. After watching three years of tumult severely weaken DDB/Chicago, once a commanding creative force within the Chicago ad industry and far beyond, Rogers, the president of DDB North America, said Thursday that Anderson had resigned as DDB/Chicago president and CEO, …
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Monster Is On The March
Today's news that Monster.com is in review reminds me that this remains one of my all-time favorite television commericals: And don't forget the ad industry-specific parody. Or was it a parody??? …
These Planners Wear No Clothes
According to Adweek's exploration of Naked's explosive U.S. growth, the ascendency of communications planning in this nation is now underway. Naked is eyeing a major U.S. expansion for 2008. It intends to open offices in Los Angeles and Chicago to complement its New York outpost, another sign that communications planning is gaining favor here after catching on in Europe a decade ago. Since opening its doors 20 months …
A Conference Call-Out
I admit I enjoyed the 4A's Account Planning Conference. Of course, not being a planner and having never attended an advertising-type conference, I have no frame of reference. Plus I flew on a frequent flyer ticket and went to Monterey afterward on vacation, so perhaps I was in the right frame of mind. Piers Fawkes, however, wasn't so kind: ‘Scuse the French, but the whole show was effing appalling. How shall we …
Make Room For Another Anomaly
image courtesy of Flckr member, Johnny Vulcan Anomaly is proving to be one of the more interesting new agencies to emerge in years. They're game changers. So it's not surprising, although it is, to learn about the launch of Another Anomaly, a stand-alone business from Anomaly legally, financially and physically. "This philosophy to our growth confronts the reality that in most of the communications industry, scale …
The Media Makers of Amsterdam
Josh Rubin's Cool Hunting found something cool (surprise, surprise) from an ad agency based in Amsterdam (more surprises!). It appears that Kessels Kramer has a content division called Kessels Kramer Publishing. Their lastest offering is a book called one hundred things to do. One of their suggestions is to knit garments from plastic bags (see photo). Kessels Kramer Publishing sees each new book as a surprise …
Throwing Mass Marketing To The Wind
The New York Times is reporting on adveritsing's Brave New World--a place where French holding company, Publicis, intends to play a major role. Their goal is to transform advertising from mass messages and 30-second commercials that people chat about around the water cooler into personalized messages for each potential customer. In the United States, some companies are already running about 4,000 versions of an ad …
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