Tom Ungar of The Ungar Group/Chicago just may be the biggest mensch there is in Chicago’s advertising community. We first discovered Ungar himself, his agency and his shop’s...
So. Here we go. We’re now barely 12 weeks into the new adventure in beer advertising that is the Chicago-based Cavalry agency. We don’t want to overstate t...
Veteran lead Olympics television anchor Bob Costas signed off for the last time from London’s 2012 Summer Olympic Games at 11:30 p.m. local time Sunday night. And ...
Smart humor isn’t likely to be in short supply at Euro RSCG/Chicago in the months to come. Why? Because the agency has just hired Tyler DeAngelo as an ...
There’s more than one way to expand an agency’s client roster. Some use an impressive array of work from a range of clients to help attract new business. Others use re...
Hundreds of hours and seemingly thousands of television commercials later, the 2012 London Summer Olympics are now winding down. As psyched as we were to experience both t...
Of course it was too good to last. The (too) amazing roll that McGarryBowen/Chicago was on has come to a crashing halt. Just months after MB was awarded Bud Light, the holy grai...
Call it fate. Or kismet if you like. But something just tells us it was meant to be. Maybe we weren’t the only observer — in Chicago anyway — who wasn’t total...
Bizarre certainly has its place in the world of advertising. Properly conceived and used in moderation, bizarre advertising can, in fact, be quite effective. But as...
Can Larry Wert at long last bring home the gold? Now may be the best opportunity in a long time for long-standing NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 general manager Wert and his loc...
Great Britain should be ashamed. The 2012 Summer Olympics host country and London, the host city, were given the marketing opportunity of this or any other lifetime. ...
Let the Games begin. Starting tomorrow, most of the world’s sports enthusiasts (as well as many who have no particular interest in athletics) will turn their attention to Lond...
So how’s he doing? As Peter McGuinness rapidly approaches his first year anniversary on the job as CEO and president of DDB/Chicago, he at least has managed to now to br...
A little more than a year after its launch, WLS-Channel 7’s “Windy City Live” is hitting its stride. There was plenty to be skeptical about when former Channel 7 general m...
It’ll never happen. Whatever good Mayor Rahm Emanuel hoped might come from his hideously verbose Chicago Cultural Plan — a draft of which was released Monday — isn’...
Guess we can add food critic to adman Vinny Warren’s list of accomplishments now. He has just put the finishing touches on a spectacular new in-cinema commercial for Osc...
What a laugh! Chicago may be the city that works (some of the time), but it has never really had much of a clue how to market itself to tourists — or locals for that mat...
When it comes to marketing liquor — especially those products aimed at a young adult demo — it of course helps immeasurably to be extraordinarily alert to current trends in ...
It would hardly be a stretch to suggest Cirque du Soleil has become part of a circle of entertainment events that can, in a way, call Chicago a home. For the truth is, the Montr...
The 2012 Cannes International Festival of Creativity film jury deliberated last week and came up with a Grand Prix winner that — quelle surprise! — is genuinely deservi...
