Boutique start-up Highdive, launched last year by former DDB creatives Mark Gross and Chad Broude, announced its first new project-based assignments.The shop is set to promote B...
These days, with so many of us seemingly caught up in what selfie to post, Beyoncé, The Real Housewives or whether or not Kellyanne’s eye luggage has gotten puffier, the topi...
When former Chicago Screenwriters Network member and filmmaker Erin R. Dooley decided to make a collaborative self-help film project while walking the The Wicklow Way, an 85-mil...
If you don’t have a thing for sushi, then this probably won’t appeal to you. But since I do in a BIG way, let’s talk about the awesome new installation New York-based Inte...
There are certain things you can be sure of when you’re attending an AICP event in LA.You will see the coolest glasses collection this side of a designer optometrist on Rodeo ...
Confirming a story that broke on Reel Chicago.com last month, The One Club for Creativity, producers of the prestigious One Show Awards, ADC Annual Awards and Creative Week...
John Cena is not a great actor. I can safely say that since, well, he is nowhere around and I’m in the confines of my apartment!
That said, the wrestler-turned-TV-star-turn...
Production and post house Optimus announced the promotions of Mark Butchko to Creative Director and Jim Moss to Effects Artist.In their new roles, Butchko will provide creative ...
Since I have been covering stories about Chicago ad agencies for Reel over the last year, and with an even more intense effort since Ruth’s passing, I am beginning to rediscov...
It’s not the worst of times, but the best of limes as Skittles has finally listened to pleas from customers over social media who begged for the return of the popular flavor a...
At Ad Age’s July 19 Small Agency of the Year Awards in Nashville, Chicago-based The Escape Pod won Gold in “The Midwest Small Agency category.”The independent agency recen...
On Friday, McDonald's AOR We Are Unlimited announced that former FCB Chicago SVP/ECD, Max Geraldo had been tapped to serve as Executive Creative Director. Joining him is Bruno G...
O’Keefe Reinhard & Paul (OKRP) will be firing up the grill for some “bar-bee-q” as they were just awarded a new assignment from Chili’s.Owned by Brinker Internationa...
The new Netflix original series, Friends from College, from writer/director Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and spouse/co-writer Francesca Delbanco (Forg...
There’s a scene in Dirty Harry where Clint Eastwood berates his partner for doing the sin of sins — putting ketchup on his hotdog.“Nobody puts ketchup on a hotdog,” is a...
Well the sauce is going to get a little less special for some of McDonald’s regional agencies.
According to Ad Age and Agency Spy reports, as well as confirmed by a Los Ang...
Well, we’ve been “voicing” everything from bees to dinosaurs in film and TV for decades now, so why not start doing the same for specimens in museums?That’s exactly what...
Former Under Amour creative, Karen Goodman, has joined Havas Chicago as Group Creative Director.According to Agency Spy, she will lead the creative on the agency’s Hefty and R...
The Chicago Sun-Times has new owners. And it’s not rival Chicago Tribune.
The struggling tabloid, as well as The Chicago Reader, were sold to former Chicago Alderman Edwin...
While most of the Emmy Awards broadcast audience will be on the edge of their seats watching House of Cards duke it out with The Handmaid’s Tale and Westworld, there will be a...