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Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Major agency losses as 2 big brands move to New York

Major agency losses as 2 big brands move to New York

By Ruth L Ratny Jul 5, 2015
Last week definitely was not a good week for Chicago advertising, with major accounts moving to New York agencies and leaving the Chicago ad market bereft of $420 million in bil...
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Register now for the 48Hour Film Project, Aug. 14-16

Register now for the 48Hour Film Project, Aug. 14-16

By Ruth L Ratny Jul 1, 2015
Registration is now open for one of the best weekends of the summer for filmmakers at all levels of skill — the 13th annual 48 Hour Film Project Chicago, Aug. 14-16....
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Mauro’s short film wins top Vatican festival prize
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Mauro’s short film wins top Vatican festival prize

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 28, 2015
WRITER/DIRECTOR LUCIA MAURO’S “In My Brother’s Shoes,” won “Best Short Film” in the prestigious ‘il Pesce d’ Argento’ (the Silver Fish) award from the Mir...
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Busy Periscope Post & Audio grows Cinespace facility

Busy Periscope Post & Audio grows Cinespace facility

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 22, 2015
The expansion of Michael Nehs and Jonathan Bross’ full-service Periscope Post and Audio  over a full floor at Cinespace that began in May is expected to be finished in t...
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Claire Simon Casting moving to new Cinespace offices

Claire Simon Casting moving to new Cinespace offices

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 22, 2015
Claire Simon Casting will be making the first major change to its business since Claire Simon opened its doors 19 years ago, by moving into what she claims will be “the Taj ...
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Cineverse’s Fletcher and Borys sacrificed for profit
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Cineverse’s Fletcher and Borys sacrificed for profit

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 19, 2015
Yesterday morning, two strange men whom no one knew or had seen before, but exuding a distinctive laid-back California air, turned up unexpectedly at Cineverse Camera’s offi...
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Havas creative’s Bikedesk inspires biking to work

Havas creative’s Bikedesk inspires biking to work

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 12, 2015
Havas Worldwide’s senior art director Scott Rench will be riding his #BikeDesk around town during Chicago Bike to Work Week, to inspire downtown professionals to ride their ...
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Michigan to end  film incentives and the film office
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Michigan to end film incentives and the film office

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 12, 2015
Come Oct. 1, 2016 Michigan’s film incentives that generated revenues of $1.3 billion against a cost of $450 million since 2008, when the incentives were instituted, will be ...
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Allstate’s ‘Mayhem’ takes top Mercury Radio awards

Allstate’s ‘Mayhem’ takes top Mercury Radio awards

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 12, 2015
The winning combo of Leo Burnett and Another Country sound designer David Gerbosi, who has mixed every Allstate Insurance “Mayhem” spot since the agency introduced the con...
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Astronaut Lovell PSA launches Library program

Astronaut Lovell PSA launches Library program

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 10, 2015
The Chicago Public Library Foundation knew RPM Advertising had the right stuff when it asked the agency to create a PSA to promote its annual fundraising program that keeps kids...
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Credle returns to NYC as FCB’s Global Chief  Creative

Credle returns to NYC as FCB’s Global Chief Creative

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 9, 2015
After six years in Chicago advertising, Leo Burnett US chief creative chief Susan Credle will head back to New York to assume one of the adworld’s most exclusive positions ...
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Creative incubator offers  startups a BIG boost
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Creative incubator offers startups a BIG boost

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 9, 2015
New creative industry incubator 2112 and massive Fort Knox Studios, a recording and music rehearsal center, are hosting a panel discussion Wednesday, June 10 as their opening ...
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Agency and post house went global on TEDx Talks video

Agency and post house went global on TEDx Talks video

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 8, 2015
My Sister Fred, the virtual agency led by a pair of former conventional agency creatives, went global in creating the opening video and all the elements for the London Business...
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Belushi files law suits after comedy club deals go south
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Belushi files law suits after comedy club deals go south

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 8, 2015
ACTOR JIM BELUSHI filed two lawsuits in relating to a failed deal with a local comedy owner. The first was a defamation suit seeking $50,000 in damages against Sahar Chavosh...
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Leo Burnett’s #LikeAGirl killer video is #1 AICP Show winner

Leo Burnett’s #LikeAGirl killer video is #1 AICP Show winner

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 5, 2015
Some 2,000 members of the advertising and production industries attended last night’s AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, held at the Museum of Mode...
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Indie Incubator ends 10 years of short film showcase
  • INDIE CINEMA

Indie Incubator ends 10 years of short film showcase

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 4, 2015
It’s not a “goodbye forever” on Sunday, June 14 for the twentieth Indie Incubator XX free film festival of locally-made short films held bi-monthly for the past decade at...
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To clarify: IFO still accepting new tax credit applications
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To clarify: IFO still accepting new tax credit applications

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 4, 2015
In the past few days since Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget cuts included suspending film industry’s hard earned tax credit, confusion has been rampant and the effect negative, ...
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Burnett again in awards spotlight, winning at AICP
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Burnett again in awards spotlight, winning at AICP

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 3, 2015
THE AICP NEXT AWARDS held last night in New York as part of AICP Week, presented its 2015 Most Next honor to Leo Burnett’s Allstate’s “Social Savvy Burglar.”  As ...
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Rauner’s suspended film tax credits a political ploy
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Rauner’s suspended film tax credits a political ploy

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 3, 2015
A suspension of the Illinois Filmmakers Tax Credit was one of many items contained in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s announced budget cuts, in an overt ploy to prod the Democrats to co...
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Global ad holding company buys Digital Kitchen

Global ad holding company buys Digital Kitchen

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 2, 2015
Digital Kitchen has gone global with its acquisition by Kyu, the new strategic operating unit of Japanese Hakuhodo DY Holdings, the seventh largest advertising holding company...
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