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Tag: Chicago Advertising

Vanessa Fortier joins Chicago Agency TDP as Creative Director
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Vanessa Fortier joins Chicago Agency TDP as Creative Director

By Reel Chicago Jan 25, 2023
The Distillery Project (TDP) has hired Creative Director Vanessa Fortier. A creative leader with a proven ability to build major brands through the power of 360 cross-c...
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1o8 agency taps Amanda Jacobs for new leadership role
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1o8 agency taps Amanda Jacobs for new leadership role

By Reel Chicago Jul 8, 2022
1o8, the creative-meets-performance agency, is further expanding its leadership team hiring Amanda Jacobs in the new positions of Head of People Planning & Talent Acquisiti...
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Third Street Agency debuts Father’s Day Campaign for SunFed Ranch
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Third Street Agency debuts Father’s Day Campaign for SunFed Ranch

By Reel Chicago Jun 18, 2022
Chicago-based attention agency Third Street is breaking new advertising for client SunFed Ranch, a California-based brand that produces a premium line of 100% grass-fed beef th...
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Havas Chicago releases Just Like Me spotlighting Black creatives
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Havas Chicago releases Just Like Me spotlighting Black creatives

By Reel Chicago Jun 15, 2022
In a new documentary titled Just Like Me, created and directed by Havas Chicago senior art director TTK Harris, the agency aims to spotlight the contributions Black creatives...
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Connatix opens Chicago office and hires digital advertising veteran
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Connatix opens Chicago office and hires digital advertising veteran

By Reel Chicago Mar 3, 2022
Connatix, a leading video technology company for publishers and advertisers, announced the hiring of Mike Renfro as Head of the Midwest Region. Renfro is tasked with establ...
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How brands used nostalgia to shape the future in Super Bowl LVI
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How brands used nostalgia to shape the future in Super Bowl LVI

Jon Laughlin, Chief Creative Officer, Laughlin Constable Feb 14, 2022
In 1995, Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic” was only available via a scratched CD and electricity was used to power household appliances including the family tube TV. In 2022, the e...
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EnergyBBDO campaign demonstrates Chicago’s influence around the world
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EnergyBBDO campaign demonstrates Chicago’s influence around the world

By Reel Chicago Feb 1, 2022
Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot just announced the launch of the “Chicago Not in Chicago” campaign to show how Chicago has inspired so many other iconic cities around the world. De...
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Upshot adds Michael Rivera as Executive Creative Director
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Upshot adds Michael Rivera as Executive Creative Director

By Reel Chicago Nov 17, 2021
Upshot, the Chicago-based full-service creative agency known for its work with clients such as Constellation Brands, Google, Starbucks and Procter and Gamble, has hired Michael...
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Aisle Rocket  adds Greg Slama as Executive VP of Media
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Aisle Rocket adds Greg Slama as Executive VP of Media

By Reel Chicago Nov 15, 2021
Aisle Rocket, the end-to-end digital marketing agency that unifies creative services, data, and technology to drive measurable results, announces that it has hired Greg Slama ...
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AbelsonTaylor promotes Ashley Hughes and Caroline Wolf to Account Director
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AbelsonTaylor promotes Ashley Hughes and Caroline Wolf to Account Director

By Reel Chicago Nov 9, 2021
AbelsonTaylor continues to reward outstanding leadership by promoting former associate account directors Ashley Hughes and Caroline Wolf to account director. Hughes will exp...
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This Halloween, Tasty Human cat treats are on the menu
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This Halloween, Tasty Human cat treats are on the menu

By Reel Chicago Sep 14, 2021
This Halloween season, the TEMPTATIONS brand is sinking their claws into the age-old idea that if our feline friends were bigger, like their lion and tiger relatives, they migh...
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Second Generation takes the creative helm at Laughlin Constable
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Second Generation takes the creative helm at Laughlin Constable

By Reel Chicago Sep 14, 2021
Jon Laughlin half jokes that he’s worked at Laughlin Constable for 44 years but in some ways he is right. He and his brother Pat Laughlin were born into the advertising agenc...
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Consumer branding ace Kristin Glunz rejoins AbelsonTaylor
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Consumer branding ace Kristin Glunz rejoins AbelsonTaylor

By Reel Chicago Sep 8, 2021
Responding to strong business growth and new consumer health assignments, AbelsonTaylor has hired Kristin Glunz, a strategic brand-builder who helped expand AbelsonTaylor’s w...
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AbelsonTaylor promotes Marissa Ori and Richard How to VP Creative
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AbelsonTaylor promotes Marissa Ori and Richard How to VP Creative

By Reel Chicago Aug 25, 2021
With continuing growth and strong business performance, AbelsonTaylor, one of the world’s premier health and wellness advertising agencies, has promoted creative directors Ma...
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Tariq Hassan returns to Chicago as Chief Marketing Officer at McDonald’s
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Tariq Hassan returns to Chicago as Chief Marketing Officer at McDonald’s

By Reel Chicago Aug 25, 2021
Tariq Hassan has been hired as USA’s Chief Marketing and Digital Customer Experience Officer for McDonald’s USA. Although his career has taken him around the world with...
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ONE School opens applications for Fall in Chicago
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ONE School opens applications for Fall in Chicago

By Reel Chicago Aug 20, 2021
Following a successful first year, ONE School, the groundbreaking free portfolio school for Black creatives, has opened applications for its Fall 2021 programs run out of Atlan...
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Mars Wrigley treats fans to limited-edition SKITTLES for Halloween
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Mars Wrigley treats fans to limited-edition SKITTLES for Halloween

By Reel Chicago Aug 10, 2021
New limited-edition SKITTLES Shriekers are hitting shelves nationwide, shocking taste buds around the country with a frightfully sour flavor. Hidden inside each pack of Shr...
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Explore produces direct-to-brand creative for ‘We Can Help’
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Explore produces direct-to-brand creative for ‘We Can Help’

By Reel Chicago Aug 10, 2021
Creative production company Explore recently produced a commercial campaign for 1st Source Bank which aired during the 2021 Olympic Games, broadcast on the NBC network from Tok...
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AbelsonTaylor elevates Christopher Mauck to Sr Director
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AbelsonTaylor elevates Christopher Mauck to Sr Director

By Reel Chicago Jul 22, 2021
AbelsonTaylor, full-service health and wellness Chicago advertising agency, has promoted Christopher Mauck to senior director of interactive technology. Coordinating closel...
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9Rooftops adds Evan Fung as Director of Analytics
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9Rooftops adds Evan Fung as Director of Analytics

By Reel Chicago Jul 8, 2021
9Rooftops recently welcomed Evan Fung as the company’s Director of Analytics. Fung is responsible for leading a growing team of analysts that measure and decode data to answe...
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