from Adweek: Groupe Bollore, the principal company of corporate raider Vincent Bollore, said it has used about 55 million Havas shares to borrow more than $270 million from an unnamed French financial firm, fueling speculation that Bollore will raise his 22 percent stake in the holding company. Paris-based Havas is the parent of the Arnold, [...]
Fortune Gets Religion When It Comes To Blogs
December 29, 2004 By
from Fortune: Blogs are challenging the media and changing how people in advertising, marketing, and public relations do their jobs. A few companies like Microsoft are finding ways to work with the blogging world
Danny G. Doing Valuable Work
December 29, 2004 By
Cleveland copywriter, Danny G., is at it again in his latest piece for Talent Zoo. He offers the industry new terms for 2005, once more providing valuable direction served with scathing satire. My favorite two follow. Creative Diaper
Wacky Packs Are Back
December 29, 2004 By
Growing up in the 1970s, I was a big fan of Topps’ Wacky Packages. At the time, the term “culture jamming” had yet to be uttered, and I never thought of my collection as political in any way. I just thought it was funny and cool. In a Chicago Reader article from June, one of [...]
We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program…
December 28, 2004 By
Noted Bay Area blogger, Evelyn Rodriguez, is in Thailand for the holidays, where she survived the massive tidal wave. Here are some of here first-hand reports (all of which lend perspective to our normal concerns of the day): “We were on a boat tour when the captain dramatically veered off course (we were headed to [...]
Dance With Them That Brung Ya
December 28, 2004 By
“It wasn’t a wonderful year for Chicago’s advertising industry. In fact, it was a pretty lousy 12 months, marked mostly by advertising accounts leaving town, ad agencies shrinking their staffs (yet again), and an overall feeling of lethargy that didn’t keep Chicago on the radar screen when many would-be clients went searching for new agencies. [...]
Holiday Publishing Schedule
December 27, 2004 By
Note to Readers: We plan to publish on a flexible schedule over this week. Thanks for all your support these past three months, with all our best wishes for a safe and happy holiday. Shawn Hartley and David Burn
Run Rabbit Run
December 26, 2004 By
from Bloomberg: In what may be another sign of consumer fatigue with political correctness, sales of furs–which plunged by a third in the 10 years ending in 1995 amid animal-rights protests–will climb about 15 percent to a record $2.1 billion this year, according to Fernandina Beach, Florida-based research firm Southwick Associates. “If you are fashion [...]
Whatever Happened To Concern Over Real Issues, Like Poverty?
December 24, 2004 By
from Mich News: In recent years the words
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