The Kansas City Star reports that VML is on a tear. New VML clients include the Cartoon Network, ESPN, Hallmark, Jägermeister, Petsmart and Kansas City Power & Light. Agency president Jon Cook declined to put an exact dollar on additional billings, saying only that it was “millions of dollars.” Cook said the agency has added 40 employees in the past three months and is “aggressively looking for more staff for our …
Recent work from Saatchis in London
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Plaid Is God’s Favorite Color
Plaid Nation Tour - July, 23 2008 from Plaid Nation on Vimeo. Learn more about the media agnostic designers at Plaid (and their summer vacation) at Plaid Nation. …
Schedule Some Chill Time in “Sportsman’s Paradise”
New Orleans has plenty of five star hotels, but there's so much more to Louisiana. Trumpet captures that truth in the above ad. And they make another important point in this pro-NOLA t-shirt. …
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Exporting Portland’s Quirky, One Of W+K’s Greatest Accomplishments
Richard Read of The Oregonian visited London and Amsterdam in pursuit of a story about Wieden+Kennedy's expanding global network. He points out that W+K had some trouble recently in Amsterdam, their oldest overseas outpost. But it was nothing Chief Operating Officer, Dave Luhr, couldn't handle, although Luhr did have to move to The Netherlands for several months. Read also looks at the London office's attempt to land …
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Walkin’ The Line
There are a lot of interesting points (and comment counterpoints) in this post at The Daily (Ad) Biz, talking about "below-the-line" agencies attempting to cross over. Here's a snippet: It seems that every company with a Photoshop license seems to think that they are an ad agency…like this partner agency that I am working with. They are a below-the-line/brochure shop and every time they present new creative, they …
Customers Are More Than Buying Machines, They’re Members of a Movement
According to Adweek, Scott Goodson of StrawberryFrog is intent on moving the needle for the brands in his agency's stable. But not by driving trial, no, that's for simpletons. Strawberry Frog wants to start something. They want to create a movement (in the name of brands). Cultural Movements is StrawberryFrog's DNA. Cultural Movements is the process StrawberryFrog uses to develop innovative strategies for our …
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Suzuki Has A New Ad Agency!
I hope this means they're getting rid of their tagline with the exclamation point! Here's the story from Ad Age! American Suzuki Corp. has handed its $100 million-plus auto account to independent Siltanen & Partners Advertising, Marina del Rey, Calif., just three months after bringing on the shop to handle two projects. Congrats, Siltanen! But in all semi-seriousness, I hope they don't dig up Baby Bob again! …
