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. …
London Calling
According to The Wall Street Journal, Fallon London is exempt from the recent pains felt in Minneapolis. Fallon's London office, with 175 people, has won accounts in the past year including Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s United Kingdom business, Cadbury Schweppes PLC and Eurostar Group. As a result, the office's billings have doubled to £120 million, or about $245 million. By contrast, the Minneapolis-based creative …
Microbenefits
Agency Spy (which has been acquired by Media Bistro) points to a Seattle Times story on Avenue A/Razorfish. Employees at interactive advertising agency Avenue A | Razorfish had a couple of questions on their minds when they heard this spring that their parent company, aQuantive, was to be acquired by Microsoft: Do we get to keep our Macs? And will we be getting the same benefits as Microsoft employees? The Macs …
Dell To Pay Big Bucks For Unrealized Promise of Integration
Dell will spend $4.5 billion over three years with holding company WPP, which will "go into business" with Dell by creating a new agency brand that will ultimately be available to other clients. According to The Wall Street Journal: One condition laid down by Dell in the review was that the companies vying for its business figure out a way to foster more collaboration between the people who create ads for TV and …
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