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The Brass Brassiere Moves To The Burbs

Dana Anderson, a bold-face name in Chicago advertising, is the new senior VP-marketing, strategy and communication at Kraft Foods, according to Ad Age. Ms. Anderson is a past president and CEO of both DDB and FCB in Chicago, and has the distinction of being one of the first women in Chicago advertising to have risen to that level. She is a highly regarded agency executive known for her dynamic presentation style and …

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Look Out, Your Job Is About To Be Crowd Sourced

Phil Johnson is identifying scared cows and leading them to the slaughterhouse. Here's an interesting specimen... 3. Traditional Creative Departments The third sacred cow is the sanctity of the advertising creative department. Concepts like crowd sourcing have begun to move creative development beyond the walls of the agency. Just look at business models like CrowdSpring that let companies use the web to go directly …

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Tradigital Talent Is Still Rare In These Parts

Owen Hannay, chairman and CEO of Dallas agency Slingshot, suggests in Adweek that clients ought to ask five tough questions of agencies proposing to handle both traditional ad duties and digital marketing. 1. Is the agency team that leads brand strategy as adept and knowledgeable about the digital space as it is the traditional space? (And vice versa.) 2. Where will the work be done? 3. What percentage of the …

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The Karsh Kiss Off?

The Denver Egotist guest blogged on Agency Spy about the state of agency affairs on the Colorado Front Range. Here's an item that jumped out at me: Karsh\Hagan, previously owned by The Integer Group and Omnicom, was sold back to former owner and agency head Pocky Maranzino. For reason's unknown, the deal has taken place under the radar and without much press. It's too early to say what this will mean for K+H in 2009, …

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Roman On Ogilvy

I often wonder, if David Ogilvy were alive today, would he e-mail a PDF of an ad to a client for approval? As Ogilvy the agency loses its prestige, Ogilvy the man gets a new biography, called The King of Madison Avenue by Kenneth Roman. Honestly, I haven't read the book, and don't plan to unless I get a complimentary copy to review, as sometimes happens here on AdPulp. But here's a take on it from The Wall Street …

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Wexley School for Girls, for Instance

This is a stellar illustration by Robin Eley running in Ad Age (it's also the only way to get Lee Clow in a suit). I wish I could say the same for the text that accompanies this work of art. The text is all about which agencies made the magazine's "A-list" for 2008. I know it's a trade magazine's job to serve their particular industry with self-congratulatory pieces, but this is such a narrow little view of the …

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