Apparently, some dead agencies can't rest in peace. From The Baltimore Business Journal: The Baltimore office of the FBI has launched an investigation into possible criminal activity committed by defunct advertising firm Eisner Communications Inc. and its former Chairman Steve Eisner. Since Eisner's closure, the ad firm's former landlord and several vendors that provided equipment and services have filed lawsuits …
Tate Tracks Wins One Show Best Of Show
It's not an ad, per se, but it is an idea. And a pretty cool one, at that. See it here. The rest of the winners are listed at The One Club website. Looks like TBWA/Chiat/Day got a lot of pencils for its Skittles and Combos work, like this spot: Was anyone there at the show? Tell us your first-hand accounts. …
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GM Tries To Inject A Little Sanity Into March Madness
You really have to play the AdAge video to hear how pathetic GM CEO Rick Wagoner sounded when speaking at the Newspapers Association of America convention. While the accompanying Ad Age article refers to Wagoner's desire for more advertorials, which is laughable by itself, the video shows him explaining how GM products are no longer "on sale all the time" with a "deal of the month" such as cash back or …
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Bill Richardson Applies To Be President
In the interest of being fair and balanced, here are a couple of spots for former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson: Compare and contrast those with the pointless Romney spot I put up yesterday. If you're going to sell candidates like toilet paper, well, it's easy to see which brand sounds better. We are starting to see some better production values in some of these political spots; perhaps that's because it …
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Romney Rhymes With Empty, And This Spot Shows Why
How many verbal and visual cliches can you fit into a 30-second spot? "This isn't the time to shrink..." "It's a time to stand in strength..." "If we lock our arms together..." You couldn't write an emptier, more vacuous political commercial if you tried. All that's missing are little blond kids waving flags. …
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Chick Lawyers Can Be Slick Lawyers, Too
When I first saw this billboard, I thought, "What cheesy pin-striped slick-haired lawyer dude thought this was a good idea?" Then I read the story: An all-female law firm is turning heads in Chicago with a new billboard and a blunt message: "Life's Short. Get a Divorce.'' The billboard, sponsored by Fetman, Garland & Associates, Ltd., a firm that specializes in divorce cases, features the six-pack abs of a headless …
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Lofty Spaces Foster Creativity
According to LiveScience.com, Grey and/or DraftFCB could rule the ad world if they moved into a cool, funky, open-air space. A recent study at the University of Minnesota suggests that ceiling height affects problem-solving skills and behavior by priming concepts that encourage certain kinds of brain processing. "Priming means a concept gets activated in a person's head," researcher Joan Meyers-Levy told LiveScience. …
3-D Printing: Holy Crap, It Sounds Cool
Did you know this was on the horizon? The New York Times reports: The next frontier will be the home. One company that wants to be the first to deliver a 3-D printer for consumers is Desktop Factory, started by IdeaLab, a technology incubator here. The company will start selling its first printer for $4,995 this year. Bill Gross, chairman of IdeaLab, says the technology it has developed, which uses a halogen light …
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