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I've always said that mergers and acquisitions only benefit the people who make the merger happen. Everyone else gets screwed. Adweek this week takes an even closer look at the newest consolidations taking place on Wall Street, which will bite some ad agencies in the butt: Banking failures and buyouts involving Washington Mutual and Wachovia sparked wildly volatile developments involving five ad agencies and nearly …
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By David Burn
I remember interviewing at Grady Britton in 1995. Marianne Banke, like many CDs in the Portland ad community, offered me a mix of encouraging and critical words. Now that I'm back in Portland, I'm looking closely at all the shops again. Thankfully, there are many new ones, in addition to some old stalwarts. Which brings me to Grady Britton's website and a meditation on their logo. Griffins are the mythical offspring …
The financial mess we're facing will have lots of consequences for the ad industry. BusinessWeek takes a look at a slowdown affecting one of the hotter sectors in the biz: online advertising. Even before the financial market malaise took a turn for the worse with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Bank of America's (BAC) purchase of Merrill Lynch (MER), and the government bailout of AIG (AIG), researchers were …
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I've always believed that ad agencies are way too generalized: that they don't have a point of view or specialty, whether it's the type of work they do or clients they pursue. My guess is that the new Dallas-based Vice Squad Agency won't have that problem. Pegasus News has more: Gambling, Alcohol and the Adult Industry comprise an enormous portion of our economy, yet there is not a single advertising agency catering …
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By David Burn
Mark Fitzloff, Wieden + Kennedy's newly appointed co-ECD said something to Adweek that I like. "People think it's easy to work on Nike. But what we've learned is that provocative advertising is not sector specific." …
By David Burn
The Wall Street Journal reports that British agency, Leagas Delaney, is on the rise again after nearly going under in 2003. In the past three years, Leagas Delaney has roughly doubled annual revenue to $30 million. Recent new clients include the Body Shop, Timberland and Dyson, a vacuum-cleaner manufacturer. Tim Delaney, 62, says he can be tough to work with because he pushes his staff to be thorough, and to think …
A bunch of years ago, Creativity Magazine used to feature the "Cliff Freeman Komedy Korner." They're not as talked about as they used to be, but they're trying to get back in the groove: Tom Christmann, the agency's recently appointed Executive Creative Director and heir-apparent to ueber-creative Cliff Freeman himself, has strengthened his creative team of 20+ with new talent. "We believe at the agency that the term …
By David Burn
Lots of agencies are toying with their self-promo web sites, as they should. One shop--Love Creative of Manchester, England--went so far as to design a site in Power Point. Why, I can't say. I suppose to prove it could be done. [via Ian Tait] …
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