Did someone mention turnaround? Yes, for the first time in a very long time, there are substantial signs of a discernible, hope-engendering turnaround in the fortunes of C...
The five agencies left in the running for the Illinois Lottery advertising account have gotten the assignment from the Lottery private manager Northstar Lottery Group that all w...
Bernie Pitzel has made a move. Yes, word will go out today that Pitzel — a true veteran of the Chicago ad scene — has changed his work address to the Jacobs Agency/Chi...
We now know which five ad agencies (all in Chicago) have a shot at nabbing the Illinois Lottery account, with the winner expected to be announced in late January. Those five sho...
Today's big shake-up in the Sprint ad agency roster will prompt plenty of fallout over the next several months. But sources today confirmed one of the shops to be hit hard...
So far so… well, so not according to plan. The race to find a new ad agency for the Illinois Lottery has just begun, and already so much has happened that wasn’t nece...
It still isn’t over. Anyone who followed the quick, but torturous process to pick a private manager to run the Illinois Lottery knows it was not pretty. There were lots ...
It must have something to do with the holiday spirit, because one sure doesn’t see ad agencies in Chicago working so happily together all that often. But that is exactly...
So the race is on to find the new ad agency of record for the Illinois Lottery. And from what we know now, it promises to be one of the most interesting races ever r...
Everything’s coming up Rosie for WLS Channel 7’s live morning show “Windy City Live.” Yes, in a little nod to the cross-town competition, “WCL” co-hosts Val Wa...
A relatively long client-agency relationship — at least by today’s standards — has quietly ended at Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago, where as recently as last week the agency was ...
We’ve been waiting and waiting for this one. And finally it launched Monday. This would be the new national brand campaign from Euro RSCG/Chicago for the homey Cra...
This is the moment for Singha beer. And by extension for Chicago’s very own GERTRUDE INC., for which Singha is a very big and very prominent component of the agency’s ...
As we prophetically noted could happen in mid-October when Michael Jones was named the new superintendent of the Illinois Lottery, Energy BBDO/Chicago is being dumped as the ad ...
Those irrepressible, totally irreverent — and altogether savvy — Walter E. Smithe furniture boys are at it again. Hands down, they run one of the most aggressively-mar...
One of those little mysteries that has nagged us for some while has finally been solved. We refer to the story behind the naming of — and logo for — the Chicago ad age...
Janet Davies, one of Chicago’s friendliest and most-talented TV personalities, has made it to 500! Not years old, silly. We’re talking about the 500th edition of WLS/C...
Fuhgeddaboudit! The past is past. They are looking forward. That’s the word from the two executives now guiding DDB/Chicago. And believe us when we say DDB has des...
The BMO Harris Bank agency review is entering its final stages, sources say, and a decision could come by Thanksgiving. One source is reporting that three agencies remain in con...
Is Emily Barr a ratings prophet or what? Several months ago, Barr, the WLS-Ch. 7 general manager, indicated she would be pleased if her new, locally-produced morning talk show ...
