Doug Lowell of ID Branding is a big fan of Seattle's Wexley School for Girls. This place - hard to call it merely an advertising agency - is one of a handful in the country that gets the new model of media-agnostic brand experiences. Portland Ad Fed present Ian Cohen and Brian Marr from Wexley for lunch on Nov. 6th at The Nines Hotel. Lunch is $45 for PAF members and $60 non members. …
Putting Three Syllables In Dallas
Jim Bob? Yes, Jim Bob. jimbobkrause to be exact. It's the creation of Dallas ad couple Jim and Candace Krause. According to Adweek, former Leo Burnett creative partners Jim Ferguson and Bob Shallcross have reunited and joined the Krauses as partners in the new entity. Q. How did you hook up with Krause? Ferguson: I've known Jimmy off and on -- not professionally, but socially. He's had Krause & Young [in Dallas] …
A Little Too Maverick-y For The Ad Business
Jack Myers, writing on The Huffington Post, thinks a McCain administration will severely impact the ad industry: John McCain said last night, in the third Presidential debate, he plans to do away with the Defense Department Marketing Assistance Program. This is the Congressional spending allocation that enables the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard, plus the National Guard, to advertise for …
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George Parker Gets Quotable On DraftFCB
Our friend George Parker has been quite vociferous in his criticism of DraftFCB. And while an unnamed "search consultant" offers a few anonymous quotes, Parker is the go-to man in an AdAge article about the shop: Pointing to odd decisions DraftFCB has made -- such as a somewhat tawdry self-promotional ad that showed two Cannes lions humping -- George Parker, who writes the AdScam blog, said the agency brings the …
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Look What “Gourmet Burritos” Did For Chipotle
According to Ad Age, Mother, has sold a majority stake in its Dogmatic Gourmet Sausage System to Blum Enterprises, a developer and operator of restaurant brands. Until now, Dogmatic has been a seasonally run street-food cart that peddles gourmet sausage sandwiches to patrons on New York's Bleecker Street. With Blum's help, Dogmatic opens its first restaurant on East 17th Street in Manhattan nest week. Over the years …
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Calm In The Storm
Once again, Steve McKee of McKee Wallwork Cleveland gives good advice. He writes in BusinessWeek about advertising in tough times: In commerce, however, it's possible for competing companies to all win. Innovation and advances in productivity actually enlarge the pie, making it unnecessary for competitors to fight over the same slice. That's why vitriolic advertising is not the norm in a free economy. Right now, …
Ad People Get High Down Under
I would've loved to be a fly on the wall when this study was conducted. The Australian reports on drug use in the ad industry there: Almost 20 per cent of advertising agency staff said that they had used drugs at work or work-related events while 41 percent said they knew of colleagues who had, the research by Australian advertising industry magazine B&T revealed. After advertising agencies, staff in media agencies …