Energy BBDO/Chicago is about to unveil a major ad campaign for the Illinois Lottery’s new “Cash Spectacular” game. The new game will award 7.6 million prizes ...
We noticed it from a distance. Energy BBDO/Chicago CEO Tonise Paul had a little extra spring in her step as she approached her table Wednesday at the very clubby Shaw’s ...
This is what worries us. McGarryBowen, with offices in New York and Chicago, in recent months has been pegged a super hot ad agency by marketing media reporters (ourselves inclu...
The August 2011 Nielsen television ratings book ended Wednesday, and the results suggest the principal contenders in the hotly-contested late news ratings wars haven’t budged ...
The bears have it. Whatever it is. The big furry animals have certainly fascinated more than a few advertising creatives over the past decade.Two high-profile TV spots of ...
Last we heard from Escape Pod/Chicago creative honcho Vinny Warren, he was madly blogging away about the latest setback to befall his creative alma mater DDB/Chicago, which is ...
It looks as if this busy summer of 2011 will be remembered as a time when some of the Chicago advertising industry’s most iconic client/agency relationships finally splintered...
These are not the best of times at DraftFCB/Chicago. The loss of the $1 billion S.C. Johnson account after nearly 60 years has prompted the layoff of 10 percent of D...
Who doesn’t love a big idea? It’s always been all the buzz in the advertising industry, even if really big ideas have been in terribly short supply in recent years.Tha...
McGarryBowen's new business bonanza continued Wednesday. The agency's New York office won the high-profile and prestigious United Airlines advertising account. Accor...
Who knew? Chicago’s very own Rich Stoddart is a big fan of big ideas in advertising.Late Monday, Stoddart, president of Leo Burnett North America was openly crowing...
IN THE REALM of advertising, few categories are more challenging — or intriguing — than that of plain old toilet paper.Yes, everyone’s gotta have it. And it is — t...
It’s over for DraftFCB. As many had suspected from the moment we announced last Christmas Eve that S.C. Johnson was launching an agency review, the Racine, Wis.-based ho...
That loud thud heard at noon on Tuesday was the sound of several hundred jaws dropping in disbelief — and dismay — as Chicago’s new mayor, Rahm Emanuel, addressed the city...
The champagne corks aren’t popping. And the confetti is nowhere to be seen. Mark this down as one anniversary that news ratings-challenged WFLD-Channel 32 isn’t ...
It’s rare that a brand new, built-from-scratch TV show springs to life in perfect shape. It’s even rarer when the show happens to be a live, local telecast such as top...
This we know for sure. Todd Tilford isn’t in Kansas anymore.On Monday afternoon, DraftFCB/Chicago tapped Tilford, 47, as its new chief creative officer, starting in earl...
The 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of — ah — Creativity ended a couple of weeks ago. But the world’s most prestigious and most closely-watched annual ad co...
We’re tempted to tag it the agency review of the century, if only because we heard truly hysterical, seemingly brain-dead TV talking heads repeatedly refer to the now in...
IT'S A FIRST. Chicago-born actor, director and producer Fred Savage has just directed his first series of TV commercials — made by Tris3ct/Chicago for the Uni-ball line ...
