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 …
Denver Agency Hits Crispin With A Boulder Between The Eyes
Financial Crisis Becomes An Ad Crisis
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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Buckle Up with Grady Britton
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 …
Financial Meltdown To Hit Online Ad Market
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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Need Some Sin? Call The Vice Squad Agency
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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It Ain’t Easy
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." …
Adidas, No. Timberland, Yes.
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 …
