Every now and then, we post some news or item about an ad agency that leads to some very personal and controversial comments. And other blogs do, too. HighJive at MultiCultClassics has some very interesting thoughts on the way blogs sometimes cover agencies, particularly when it comes to employee or ex-employee gossip and crosstalk: The terminated are becoming the terminators. They’re mad as hell and they’re not …
Ho Ho Ho
If you write about advertising, you're going to receive a lot of holiday greetings from firms that create it. Rick Romell of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is no exception. But instead of letting these greetings go unloved in his inbox, he's sharing them with his readers. This is the season for advertising shops to flex their creative muscles on their own behalf, concocting greetings ranging from Bader Rutter's …
Help On The Way
The best agencies are staffed by people with big ideas. Sadly, most of these ideas are wasted on ads for clueless clients. But, when it can help it, Taxi doesn't play that game. To commemorate the shop's 15th year in the culture-shaping business, they sought a truly big idea, one that would give back to the community. The brief was sent out, and executive creative director, Steve Mykolyn, came back with The 15 …
Zip Zap
Sell to a holding company and your agency brand will forever be in danger. According to Ad Age, Zipatoni, a prominent marketing services agency, is no more. The 22-year-old St. Louis shop -- best known for zany promotions and retail work -- is being folded into Interpublic Group of Cos.' sibling Rivet, the shops announced today. Toronto-based FCB Direct is also folding into Rivet. The new Rivet, based in Chicago, …
‘Tis The Season For Agency Holiday Cards
...this one is from Dailey and Associates [via bad banana blog] …
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Leanin’ On The YouTubes
Just about every agency in the world still leans on a brochureware site to tell its story. There are some notable exceptions—Hill Holiday scrapped the corporate site altogether in favor of a blog. Other agencies are augmenting their brochureware site with things like a MySpace page or YouTube account. Of course, several now have blogs. While Agency Spy was bored with the content in the following video from Arnold, I …
Wenham’s Best To Join All the Rest
Adages, the Ad Age blahg, is reporting that Mullenites will soon struggle to find and pay for parking just like everyone else in downtown Boston. The 420 employees of Mullen's corporate headquarters will soon be giving up the mansion and the cookbooks and their quirky outsider status. That's because executives from the Interpublic agency announced plans to move its headquarters from their 50-acre mansion in sleepy, …
Wieden + Kennedy Is Seeking 21st Century Artisans, Telepathic Communicators and Street Corner Poets Who Don’t Mind A Little Rain
If you know what this means, maybe you can get a job there. …
