WHILE MEKANISM AGENCY has been quietly in Chicago for several months to support its MillerCoors brands and Jim Beam US accounts on an up close and personal basis, the official a...
FOUR CHICAGO AGENCIES — DDB Chicago, Leo Burnett, DigitasLBI, and Havas Worldwide — are among the 66 category winners of the 8th Annual Shorty Awards for content o...
MEET. DRINK. TALK. — that’s the official title of AICP-Midwest’s popular annual event held exclusively for Midwest agency, commercial production and editorial profess...
A MCGARRYBOWEN CONTINGENT and Comma Music’s Managing Director Bonny Dolan are heading for SXSW for a Thursday, March 17 panel called “Inside Out: How Did This Song Get into ...
NEW DISTRIBUTOR GRASSHOPPER FILM of LA has picked up VOD, digital and non-traditional rights to Maria Finitzo’s Kartemquin-produced feature doc, “In the Game.”It follows t...
DDB WON BIG with Fiat Chrysler’s Jeep Business, which was shifted from FCB Chicago and became the lead agency on the account. In January DDB also became the lead agency ...
HANDSOME, FIRM-JAWED PHILIP WINCHESTER (“The Player”) is the first actor to be cast in NBC-Dick Wolf’s upcoming “Chicago Law.” Look for the new series to be...
AFTER 14 YEARS IN LA, talent agent Emily Rabinowitz of RTA has returned to the area and set up shop representing a roster of 75 exclusive actors, from juniors to seniors. ...
BAM STUDIOS’ engineering team provided sound design and audio mix for Media Process Group’s nearly two hour feature doc, “Maya Angelou: Still I Rise,” which evoked...
TWO CHICAGO AGENCIES, Energy BBDO and Havas Worldwide, are Best of Show nominees in the 2015 International Mobius Awards, to be announced at the awards celebration March 5 in Ho...
R/GA CHICAGO hired Charles Chung as executive production director to oversee the agency’s production, from DigitasLBi, where he was VP/group director of integrated produc...
A NEW COLLABORATION has been formed between veteran spot editors and good friends Arturo Cubacub’s I-Cubed and Joe Langenfeld’s Punkvision, when Arturo recently mo...
AN INFORMATIVE MEETING about the Illinois Filmmakers 30% Tax Credit will take place Wednesday, Jan. 27 to explain how to wend your way through the qualifications to obtain the c...
HAVAS STARTS THE NEW YEAR with a new integrated account: Ohio-based Moen, a popular line of kitchen, bathroom and bar faucets, for creative, media, digital and content. Th...
DDB Chicago’s Diane Jackson’s new title of Chief Production Officer is confirmation of management’s high regard for her being “formative in strategizing for the entire n...
THE CHICAGO AD FEDERATION, one of 13 associations under the management umbrella of Kellen, a global management and communications company, recently moved into the 32,000 s...
INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC’S LOSS is Rethink Studios’ gain. The CGI and motion graphic design studio hired Renita Taylor as producer when she recently moved to C...
THE NORTH ALLIANCE, the first ever collective of Scandinavian creative agencies, has expanded into the U.S. market with the acquisition of the Chicago-based digital agency, Nans...
A TRIO OF EXPERTS within Resolution Productions Group is holding demonstrations of a new time and money-saving approach to commercials by using LED backdrops on its main stage D...
FOX'S EMPIRE STARS Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard will host Taraji and Terrence's White Hot Holidays — which the network is billing as a music and variety spec...
