According to Lewis Lazare, Draft/Chicago is looking to add 50 new jobs across all disciplines, including creative, account services, interactive, multicultural and health care. The hiring spurt comes in the wake of several new business wins in 2005, including the Los Angeles Times, Johnson & Johnson, the American Marketing Association and S.C. Johnson. "With clients shifting their advertising budgets from traditional …
Red States, Blue States, And The State of Creativity
In an Adweek article last week, prominent ad people were asked, “It’s Thanksgiving this week. What are you thankful for?” Among the pithy comments were these, which caught my eye because they were both in the same article: Court Crandall of Ground Zero who said, among other things, “I’m thankful this will be George Bush’s last term.” Neil Powell of Margeotes Fertitta Powell who said, “I’m thankful the American …
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Steal Your Face Right Off Your Head
Grateful Dead, or what's left of it, just made a terrible move. By demanding that their live and unreleased music be taken off sites like Archive.org and Nugs.net, they discarded their principles and turned on their fans, or "brand evangelists" as we like to call them in Adlandia. Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing: This is pretty disappointing. Deadheads made the Grateful Dead some pretty substantial fortunes over the …
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Would Be President Pitches Financial Schwag
According to this Washington Post story, Rev. Al Sharpton is helping to promote car title loans, a practice some legislators want to abolish, due to predatroy interest rates that can rise to over 300 percent. In commercials airing locally, the ever-colorful Al Sharpton stands on a stage with an American flag and happily declares, "Finally, there's someone in Virginia who will loan money to people the big guys won't …
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Fake News Keeps On Keepin’ On
Promiscuity claim lands LYNXjet Mostess in hot water. Allegations of flirtatiousness and promiscuity with a male passenger are just some of the accusations being levelled at LYNXjet “Mostess” Lola Allegra. It is alleged that in September of this year, Miss Allegra had invited a male passenger, Mr. Michael Williams into the on board spa bath with her and a co-worker. Mr. Williams, after accepting the young lady’s …
Lindsay Lohan Miles Away From Ordinary
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Window Undressing
Boston.com: It's downtown Augusta's latest attraction: three young women clad in lingerie who wave to passersby from a store window. The attention-grabbing models were hired by Spellbound, a lingerie store that recently opened on Water Street and is trying to establish its name. Spellbound's owner, former Cony High School teacher Felicia Stockford, said she came up with the idea while brainstorming for an inexpensive …
Finding The Humor In Retail Displacement
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Fake Comedian Provokes Real Ad From Kazakhstan
In an attempt to counter Boratian misperceptions about its country, Kazakhstan has taken out a 4-page ad in today's New York Times. The section, titled, "Kazakhstan in the 21st Century," carried testimonials to its oil production, its democracy, education system, and purported "power and influence" of women. The feud has been simmering for the past year, after Borat and his frank depictions of life in his homeland …
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NCAA Uses Its Amateur Athletes To Sell Pontiacs
USA Today: Critics say a popular website — the Pontiac Game Changing Performance poll — puts the NCAA dangerously close to violating its own rules, as well as the rights of athletes for use of their image and name for commercial purposes. "This is a line they have never crossed before," said Peter Rush, a Chicago lawyer who unsuccessfully battled the NCAA last year over whether former Colorado football player and …
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