And then there were two. Late Friday afternoon — very late — Illinois Lottery private manager Northstar Lottery Group posted the two finalists still in the running for...
We fear it is going to be a very long election year indeed for TV viewers who opt to turn to CNN to follow the many presidential primaries and other events as they unfold. For a...
For the talk diva who reigned in regal fashion on television for more than a quarter century, it was a stunning admission of near total failure. In a lay-bare-your-problems inte...
To say 2011 whizzed by is an understatement. The year about to end was — everything considered — a pretty good year for the Chicago advertising industry. At leas...
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...
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...
