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At the Chicago Sun-Times, Lewis Lazare doesn't usually have breaking news, but today he's got an exclusive story: United Airlines will stun the ad world today when it shifts its advertising account from Fallon/Minneapolis -- its home for a decade -- to a startup boutique agency, Barrie D'Rozario Murphy/Minneapolis. United now will become the new shop's flagship account. Per United Senior Vice President of Marketing …

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French holding company Publicis will handle all marketing for P&G's Oral-B line of dental care products--everything from advertising to package design and public relations. All said, it's a $65 million win over incumbent Omnicom. P&G calls this consolidation a "new way to work with agencies." According toBrandweek: "Implementing an agency model that moves us from many separate agencies to one team, one leader and one …

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What's it like to win an account that spends $1.2 billion a year on advertising? Mere mortals in the ad biz are ecstatic with a $10 million dollar win. Goodby's latest account score comes in at 120 times that, which is pretty amazing. Ad Age looks at some of the reasons for Goodby's success. "Goodby's sterling reputation and creative talents are second to none and together we will deliver a more integrated and …

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Over at Slate, ad critic Seth Stevenson takes a look at Crispin's ads, and their effect as a whole: It's not personal. Every Crispin employee I've ever spoken with has been friendly and likable. And it has nothing to do with how effective or ineffective Cripin's ads are as sales tools. The jury's still out on that. No, my distaste is purely aesthetic. Crispin ads annoy me. And I'm not alone. Every time some new …

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Today's Adweek takes a look at all the fallout from the DraftFCB merger: Draft's top managers are grappling with the challenges any new entity faces when combining corporate cultures. One former FCB employee described the mood at FCB's New York flagship as "grim." "Everyone knew from the beginning that Draft would take the lead, but still, it's as if 100 years of FCB heritage is being shredded by Howard …

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Fuse Sports & Entertainment Group is Omnicom's latest foray into sports and entertainment marketing, according to The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.). "Sports and entertainment are two areas that people are passionate about," Ceo Steve Grubbs says. "Our clients are looking to attach themselves to passion points." Fuse will oversee four Omnicom-owned companies, including Full-Circle Entertainment, a …

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The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.) is running an eye opener this morning—a feature on how Nike is looking for better digital content, something Wieden + Kennedy has been unable to deliver to the sportswear brand's critical youth market. Industry executives say the move was a wake-up call to Madison Avenue. The message is clear: No matter how talented an agency's creative team or how well the client's …

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Ad Age reports that Crispin Porter + Bogusky staffers will go back to drinking Fat Tire and other kind beers, effective immediately. "We just have fundamental differences over creative and strategy," Alex Bogusky, chief creative officer at Crispin, said in a statement released this afternoon. "And although we made every attempt to find common ground, the process of multilayered approvals of creative and strategy has …

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