With 1,000 guests expected Nov. 18 at the Chicago Cultural Center, the 19th annual AICP Show will again deliver as advertising’s biggest and most anticipated social event of the year.
Digital Kitchen’s Chris Hill, the event producer, says the host committee is “keeping it fairly simple this year. We’re providing a great atmosphere, from furniture to flowers to menu ? but not a lot of entertainment.”
Which really is superfluous when practically everyone knows everyone else, or will get acquainted quickly enough as the evening progresses.
This is the touring Show Reel’s second year at the Cultural Center, an infinitely more spacious and elegant venue than the Chicago History Museum, the Show’s home for the better part of 13 years. “The attendance was around 400 when I took over in 2000 and grew to more than 1,000 in my last year, 2006,” notes former AICP Midwest Chapter president Mark Egmon.
The Show Reel screening starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Claudia Cassidy Theatre, introduced by New York-based AICP president Mark Miller. In the hour-long presentation are 63 of the cr?me de la cr?me of global television commercials in 28 categories, include Next award-winners.
Alas, the only commercial representing Chicago ?- home of the second largest advertising market in North America ?- is Comma Music’s arrangement for Nike’s “Dunkin on Reindeer” spot, produced for Minneapolis’ Wieden + Kennedy by New York’s Imperial Woodpecker.
Guests will party in two magnificent rotundas
