They always come in to town with expectations. Great expectations that they will do great things. Make a mark in Chicago. Expand their footprint. All the...
Super Bowl 2013 is history. A game that began looking as if it would be a rout, ended a thrilling — dare we say unforgettable — football game. But how about the 2013 ...
Can it only have been a year since Downtown Partners/Chicago began working on the Illinois Lottery account? My, how time flies. And how dramatically so much has changed — for ...
Who hasn’t noticed? Walgreens is undergoing a major sea change. A sea change in operations. A sea change in image. And most definitely a sea change in...
It’s a basic axiom. If advertising campaigns don’t get refreshed, they usually get stale. And when ad campaigns become stale, that usually means consumers become...
It certainly cannot claim to be the world’s largest ad agency. Or even the largest in Chicago. But no matter. Schafer Condon Carter/Chicago can now boast of ...
Just when things seem darkest, a ray of light often materializes to indicate all is not lost. And sure enough, that is what has happened at Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago. ...
It isn’t always on our radar screen in quite the same way some other local ad shops are, but, as it turns out, there’s lots happening at ESW Partners/Chicago these days...
Sands shift. They shift under people. They shift under institutions too. Perhaps no cultural organization in Chicago has recognized just how much the sands are...
It’s the eyes. Yes, the eyes for sure. How do we know the Illinois Lottery and its ad agency of record Downtown Partners/Chicago got this new round of very smart b...
No rhyme. No reason. Ridiculous. Disgusting. Welcome to the often impossible-to-fathom world of advertising. Especially the world of advertising as it seems to play ...
He doesn’t run the biggest ad shop in the Chicago. Not by any means. Nor the most highly publicized. But he has been a presence. Dare we say a force of a somewhat differ...
Surprised? Yeah, we’ve been surprised by a lot of what Sears is up to, at least so far as its television marketing efforts are concerned. We’ve been surprised the most by ho...
We dread it. We shouldn’t, really. Yet we always do. It’s time to ask the question that always rises to the top of the bin right about now: What kind of ye...
It’s rapidly becoming a lost art. Very lost, at least within the world of marketing, which used to be such a magical, mystical, fun place to spend a while. We’re talki...
Everyone knows s**t happens in the ad biz. Sure. But every now and then good stuff does too And sometimes, when the stars are really aligned, several really go...
Yes, we know. By now, we know. More than a year into the reinvention and resuscitation of the Illinois Lottery, it’s become clear that “anything’s possib...
It was, for those who take a broader view of things, a bittersweet moment in Chicago advertising annals. Yes, we’re talking about the debut this week of BMO Harris...
If only it were so easy. For four years — four long years — Jeff Kiernan has been trying to do the seemingly impossible. Some might compare it to the ungodly tas...
It’s the forgotten advertising form. It gets no respect. It’s probably going to go the way of the dinosaur before much more time has elapsed. We just have ...
