According to a New York Times report, Canadian holding company, MDC Partners, is buying Powell, a small creative shop in New York, and folding it in with Margeotes Fertitta & Partners, a mid-sized shop already in the MDC stable. MDC bought a majority of Margeotes Fertitta in 1998; the rest is owned by Mr. Fertitta and other senior managers. Some of the other shops under the MDC umbrella include Crispin Porter & …
The Crap Faucet
Rance Crain longs for some good old-fashioned TV viewing, presumably so the industry his magazine reports on will continue to generate news. The ad industry is counting on product placement in movies, TV shows, electronic games and mobile phones to be its salvation, but the ugly thought is beginning to seep into people …
Fabulous Hairballs
Have you seen Blow Out on Bravo? It's all about Jonathan Antin, hairdresser to the stars, and his product launch. In other words it's a 60-minute commercial. Here's a quote from the man himself on his QVC appearance: People that watch the show know that I am not normally at a loss for words, but QVC is huge. Once they started telling me that the channel is in 87 million homes, I started to see it as a huge stepping …
Forget “Be Like Mike”
At a time when athletes like Kobe and the mouth with a bat dominate the headlines, it's good to know there is at least one real American sports hero for us to gain inspiration from. The above image is available as a screen saver at WearYellow.com, a Nike site. …
Blue Grassers Say, “Hold The Cheese”
BBC: The state of Kentucky is set to withdraw the design of the state's smiling sunshine face from its licence plates because it is so unpopular. Perched beneath the line "It's that friendly" on the plates, the smiling sun has met ridicule and scorn. Drivers have been drawing moustaches on the face, or transforming the smile into a scowl in protest. The new design features an outline of the state of Kentucky in the …
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Former Juice Guy To Sell Beer
Adweek: Duffy & Shanley said it has been hired by Narragansett Brewing to help relaunch the company's namesake beer brand via an October campaign that will initially focus on promotions and point-of-sale materials. The independent agency in Providence, R.I., is also handling package redesign, Web marketing and public relations. The beer was first brewed in 1890 in Cranston, R.I. By the 1960s, it had grown into one …
Stay Funny
Stay Free! is a bi-annual magazine with a blog component. Unlike Adbusters, the culture jamming subversives at Stay Free! are funny. And funny is good. I like funny. Don't you? …
“Always Stay In Your Own Movie”
Bohemian Cafe, S. 13th St., Omaha, NE (care of Flickr user, Norchas) I've been spending more time on Flickr, of late. The experience is a lot like reading blogs, but the content is all visual. Like blogs, people promote what they find most interesting. For some, it's their self-image, for other's it's semi-erotic images, flirting or artful nudes. Still others find fabric fascinating or dead malls. And by no means is …
