GSD&M Idea City has recruited and entrusted their top creative post to industry powerhouse Mark Taylor. Taylor comes to GSD&M Idea City from Crispin Porter + Bogusky where his work as creative director won wide critical acclaim. His accomplishments include the re-creation of the King and the interactive-sensation Subservient Chicken for Burger King, the launch of the MINI, and work for Miller Highlife, Nike and VW …
Dan Just Does It
CNBC's hour-long documentary on Nike debuts on the business news channel tomorrow night. [via Paul Isakson] …
IPG Invests In Urban Advertainers
Steve Stoute is is an American record executive, most famous for being rapper Nas's off-and-on manager since 1995. Stoute is also the founder of Translation Marketing, a company that matches pop-star spokespersons with corporations that want to promote their brands. He has worked to pair Gwen Stefani with Hewlett-Packard, Justin Timberlake with McDonald's, Beyoncé Knowles with Tommy Hilfiger, and Jay-Z with …
Maddock Douglas Encourages A Sense of Wonder
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Creature Tosses Some Shit Our Way
If you have yet to join Ad Club Seattle, this spot from Creature might persuade you. …
Mad Women
Nina DiSesa, chairman of McCann Erickson, New York, and author of the new book, Seducing the Boys Club, says the ad world is still a sexist place. The most dramatic change in advertising since 1962 is that most of us have stopped smoking. She adds, "Forty years after women burned their bras to liberate their sex, only 2 percent of the Fortune 1000 CEOs are women. Two percent!" [via Adweek] …
Della Femina Loses Diners Over Poor Taste In Editorial
Ad man Jerry Della Femina owns a restaurant and a free weekly newspaper in The Hamptons. According to Newsday, his newspaper is causing trouble for his restaurant. A recent column about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton in a free weekly owned by Hamptons luminary Jerry Della Femina so infuriated members of the East End Gay Organization that they canceled a fundraiser in Della Femina's …
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Postaer Rejects Integrated Marketing
Steffan Postaer, in an otherwise nice piece on his dad's legacy at RPA, wanders off into a rant about integration. Pops couldn’t keep up with the times. The brave new world of banners and microsites was too much for him. Time to let the Facebook generation take over. Social networks are where it’s at. Give them something viral. Integrate or die! Or recognize, as my father did, that integration is just a word we …
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