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Charlotte ad agency Boone/Oakley is looking for a creative team. Literally. From their website: Think you have what it takes to work here? Before you answer yes, check out the entire site, it has numerous clues about the personality of the agency, and the people who work here. If you are still interested and have had a minimum of 5 years experience in advertising, forget about polishing your resume. Send us a …

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I want to sympathize with the agency mentioned below, and support them for tossing a bad client. But it's bad form to vent when you're on a call with a reporter (although it makes for good journalism). Adweek: Citing "creative and strategic differences," independent G&M Plumbing and quick-serve restaurant chain Del Taco have parted ways, the agency said. G&M in Manhattan Beach, Calif., has handled the Del Taco …

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Ad agencies are kown for their creative workspaces and interior design. Art director, Derek Nelson, shows us his work place, the Dallas agency formerly known as Temerlin McLain. See all the images from Nelson's t:m photoset. …

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Adweek: MDC Partners' Crispin Porter + Bogusky is opening an office in Boulder, Colo., in July, said Chuck Porter, shop chairman, who disclosed the new venture at an agency-wide meeting this morning. The decision to launch in Boulder comes after the agency's addition this month of the $400 million North American Volkswagen account. However, Porter said the outpost is not intended to service a particular existing or …

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Business Week: Can a car company really be called green? Sure, the notion may seem far-fetched. But if anyone can, it might be Toyota. The Japanese auto maker has gotten great mileage lately out of its Prius gasoline/electric hybrid. Toyota has sold over 400,000 of these fuel-sippers and is now expanding its hybrid lineup by at least 10 other vehicles. Less well known are Toyota's efforts to reduce emissions from …

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Other than Jordan Buntain's Copywriter Xmas Card, I haven't come across too many new agency/self-promo Christmas e-cards/virals/online movies this year. Maybe I'm just out of the loop. So, if I have to hear "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" this time every year when I go into Walgreens, I think it's fine to dig up some ghosts of Christmas virals past. Like my personal favorite, Chris Christmas Rodriguez. And …

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BSandS riding high in a Mini If you read all the way to the bottom of this NY Times article on Butler Shine & Stern's Mini Cooper account win, you will find this nugget. Ms. Hardy and Mr. McDowell (Mini USA marketing execs) notified Butler, Shine's employees that they won the review in a nontraditional way: A bulldog was sent into the agency's office, wearing a collar decorated with clues to the decision written on …

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Lewis Lazare considers the changes underway at Euro RSCG Chicago. According to several sources familiar with developments, Euro RSCG has decided, in essence, to fold what had been a strictly delineated consumer ad unit into a new entity that blends the digital, direct, data and advertising units at the shop into a more seamless shop headed by newly anointed president Mark Blankenship. For the last two years, …

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