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BBH L.A. Names First Managing Director
BBH L.A. has just moved into its new space on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, and the agency is naming its first managing director to run the office: Matt Ross, most recently the managing director...
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Cutwater Is Awarded More Work From Easton-Bell Sports
Cutwater is broadening its relationship with Easton-Bell Sports, with a U.S. brand strategy and creative assignment for a new product line for the company’s Giro brand of helmet, protective gear and...
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Former GS&P Account Lead Wenzell Named President of Dojo
Dojo, the young San Francisco agency, created the new role of president and hired one of the city’s account veterans to fill it: Marty Wenzell, former longtime group account director at Goodby...
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Data Points: Summer Travel
It’s no surprise that travelers depend on the Internet to research and plan vacations. According to data from Google, online query activity peaks in July, when searches for domestic travel-related...
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Taxi Auctions Off Its 2008 Mini Coupe After Losing Account
After 10 years together, Taxi in Toronto and BMW Mini have parted after the agency declined to participate in a review for the Canadian account, eventually won by Anomaly. Remember Taxi's "wacky...
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Kraft to Kids: Stop Wasting Those Noodles on Macaroni Art!
Every day, thousands of boxes of Kraft Macaroni & Cheeese are wasted in the name of children's pointless macaroni art. No longer! "Dinner, Not Art," a new tongue-in-cheek campaign from Crispin...
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Ad of the Day: McDonald's
The time difference with London will be exhausting and exasperating for people in some parts of the world as they try to watch the Olympic Games this summer. But instead of whining about it, DDB New...
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Coke's Happiness Islands, the Internet Ocean's Most Pleasant Archipelago
Looking to waste a little time on the Internet today? (Of course you are.) Take a trip over to Coca-Cola's Happiness Islands, a friendly little "sitelets archipelago" in the vast Internet ocean. Each...
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Kids Take Center Stage in W+K's Latest Olympic Spot for P&G
Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Ore., has had an enormous success with "Best Job," its Procter & Gamble commercial saluting moms ahead of this summer's Olympic Games. The ad has been causing misty...
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It's Stompeez vs. Silly Slippeez in the Stompable-Slipper Wars
Catchy jingles, rainbow swirls, sparkle transitions—Stompeez has all the hallmarks of a successful toy commercial. And with genius lyrics like "We love 'em! We want 'em!" it's no wonder the cuddly...
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Portrait: Forward
Specs Who From left, co-founders Alexandre Sap, Leslie Dubest and Fabien Moreau What Cultural marketing agency Where Forward office, Paris Less than a year after its principals peeled off from Havas,...
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Perspective: One Tough Sell
For those who rail against government spending on bridges to nowhere and $600 toilet seats, few things ruffle the feathers quite like the cash that the Department of Defense drops on recruitment...
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Fast Chat: CP+B's New Design Brass
Dave Swartz met Alex Bogusky—and Alex’s father Bill—when Swartz was 12 years old. Bill was his first mentor and gave him a summer job at age 17. Now 49, Swartz has worked on and off at Crispin Porter...
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DirecTV's Phil Shifley Spotted at MLB's All-Star Game
For a guy who faked his own death, Phil Shifley isn't keeping much of a low profile. The character from Grey's celebrated ad campaign for DirecTV (Bill Clinton's favorite!) has been all over Facebook,...
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Vending Machine Reveals Depths to Which People Will Sink for Free Snacks
What would you do for Fantastic Delites? I'm sorry, the phrase they're using is, "How far will you go for Fantastic Delites?" Same dif. The point is, would you mash a button 100 times for a free bag...
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Taco Bell and Old Spice Mix It Up on Twitter
[Note: This item has been updated. We initially thought the fight was abandoned early on, but we mistakenly had @ replies turned off.] Everyone loves it when brands mix it up on Twitter. Here's the...
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Ad of the Day: Credit Suisse
In the classic tradition of the financial world bankrolling the artistic one, Credit Suisse is sponsoring an exhibition titled Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 at London's National Gallery this summer—and...
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Microsoft Bailing on Mobile, Branded Web Video Ads
Is Microsoft signaling that the company is getting out of the brand advertising business? Its latest round of layoffs sure seem to indicate so. On Wednesday (July 11), the company initiated an...
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McCann Names New Detroit President
Christopher Fay is the new president of McCann Erickson’s Detroit office, joining the Interpublic agency from the Leo Burnett Group in Taiwan were he was managing partner. Fay succeeds Joe Garcia, who...
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