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A new ad campaign from DeVito Verdi for Boston’s Legal Sea Foods celebrates the legalization of marijuana in the Bay State. The TV and print ads play off the restaurant's baked, fried and smoked menu items. "Baked" and "smoked" makes sense. "Fried" is something that happens when you drink too much, work too much, and so on. The “Welcome to Legal” effort also includes dispensing free clam chowder from Legal …
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People love sparkling water. Sparkling water is a thing. Therefore, the sparkling water market is getting crowded. Mexican-made Topo Chico (now owned by Coca-Cola) is dominant throughout Texas, but in Austin, there are five local choices and La Croix ain't on the menu, much less Perrier. Big Swig Sparkling Water, Rambler Sparkling Water, Richard’s Sparkling Rainwater, Sway Water and Waterloo Sparkling Water …
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Stock images are hard to "own." That's because anyone can buy them and render your singular look obsolete in a few keystrokes. Nevertheless, creative teams are tasked with tight production schedules and shallow budgets, which forces their mouse hands. There's Stock, And There's Shutterstock Shutterstock claims to know that "creative professionals are busy, but they never let their standards slip." Seems like …
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How many times have you heard that agencies can no longer attract the best talent? If you're like me, you've heard it one too many times, which makes this story a smile-inducing moment. According to Lindsay Rittenhouse at Ad Age, The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne is joining Deeplocal as an experience designer. No, the band is not breaking up. The band is intrigued by what it can do with machines, …
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Hertz paid Accenture $32 million for a new web presence that the consultants never delivered. The unresolved dispute was recently filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York. Accenture disputes their former client's claims. Accenture has also filed a motion to dismiss Hertz’s claim under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and is intending to assert counterclaims for payment …
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Doyle Dane Bernbach, also known as DDB, is a creative stalwart. The agency was started in New York City in 1949 by Ned Doyle, Maxwell Dane, and William Bernbach, who acted as president. Bernbach and Doyle had worked together at Grey Advertising during the mid-1940s; Dane had been running his own small advertising firm. It goes without saying, but I will say it for emphasis. DDB is old school in the best of ways, …
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It occurs to me that there are times when a complete story won't do. In times like this, we exist on fragments. Ad Agencies of Merit Require A Bad Ass Design Shop San Francisco-based Argonaut is expanding its offering with the launch of a new, fully-integrated branding and design group, Atelier by ARGONAUT, which will focus on Design Strategy, Brand Identify, and Brand Experience. The agency promoted Angie …
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