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Scout Health promotes Rick Conrad to ECD

From Scout Health Aug 1, 2019

Former owner of CPG boutique SPY Advertising will lead teams across the country for the healthcare marketing agency Scout Health, a leading healthcare marketing firm th...

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Next stop for AICP awards tour – Detroit

By Colin Costello Aug 1, 2019

Coming off a successful Los Angeles panel and party, which you can see photos of here, The AICP Next Awards motor into The Detroit Historical Museum tomorrow, August 1. The ...

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The return of ‘Destroy Your Art’

By Reel Chicago Jul 30, 2019

Five filmmakers scheduled to annihilate work that has never been seen before or since on August 10 Next Saturday night, five Chicago filmmakers will literally “take a...

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Vince Cook joins Laughlin Constable as ECD

By Reel Chicago Jul 30, 2019

Vince Cook joins as Executive Creative Director, Austin Scott as Digital Creative Director Laughlin Constable has bolstered its creative department by adding two...

PBS, WTTW announce ‘Prehistoric Road Trip’

By Reel Chicago Jul 29, 2019

New three-part natural history series brings life to extinct worlds in the Western U.S. beginning summer 2020 Today at the Television Critics Association press to...

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Indiana’s thrilling beauty comes alive in ‘Golden Voices’

By Daniel Patton Jul 28, 2019

The Hoosier State plays a starring role in a supernatural adventure short by Chicago-based Gold Point Studio Golden Voices wowed audiences at Indiana’s Heartland Inte...

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Makeover event to benefit Rogen’s ‘Hilarity for Charity’

By Daniel Patton Jul 26, 2019

Chicago actress donates her birthday to help a nonprofit that funds research and comforts people affected by Alzheimer’s Chicago actress and writer Ina Ruxandra Bochia...

Locals show us Englewood’s funny side in ‘South Side’

By Colin Costello Jul 26, 2019

Chicago brothers, Bashir and Sultan Salahuddin, find humor in everyday struggles of working class, aspirational locals. Wow, that was funny. Like really funn...

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FCB hires Erika Pflederer to grow in-house studio

By Reel Chicago Jul 25, 2019

FCB Chicago is proving the agency is determined to support and build their in-house production studio, Lord + Thomas. The name harkens back to FCB's original founders, Lord ...

ACCOUNT WINS

Laughlin Constable named media AOR for USG Corp.

By Reel Chicago Jul 25, 2019

Laughlin Constable announced yesterday that it has been named Media Agency of Record for Chicago-based USG Corporation, the leading manufacturer of building products and innovat...

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Vasilatos nabs a couple Megafest noms

By Kristi Dunn Kucera Jul 23, 2019

The Chicago filmmaker earns a pair of honors while exploring options for his next project Restored in 2018 for its 25th Anniversary with a new orchestral score, Lifeti...

NEW WORK

Budweiser launches Apollo 11 promotion

By Daniel Patton Jul 23, 2019

Anheuser-Busch offers beer at the same price that the team from mission control paid in 1969: 35 cents Budweiser is offering drinkers a chance to celebrate Apollo 11...

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Britt Nolan named DDB North America CCO

By Reel Chicago Jul 23, 2019

Britt Nolan leaves Burnett to run DDB North America creative, as Ari Weiss is promoted to global CCO DDB Worldwide today announced that former Leo Burnett co-President ...

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The Mill NY promotes new media creative talent

From The Mill Jul 23, 2019

The studio’s Experiential & Interactive team appoints Will Adams Creative Director and moves Sally Reynolds up to Associate Creative Director The Mill has announced...

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Peanuts gang makes a return to the big screen

By Daniel Patton Jul 23, 2019

Studio Movie Grill among nationwide theaters playing ‘A Boy Named Charlie Brown’ and ‘Snoopy, Come Home’ Over the next two months, a pair of beloved Peanuts’...

In memoriam

‘Wild Kingdom’ creator Don Meier, 1915-2019

By Daniel Patton Jul 22, 2019

TV pioneer turned millions of family rooms into theaters of untamed nature every Sunday night for decades Legendary Chicago filmmaker Donald Meier died peacefully of...

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Camp Kuleshov issues 2019 call for entries

From avagnoni communications Jul 21, 2019

AICP’s trailer contest for assistants releases list of source films for Editing, Graphic Design, and Sound Design, sets Labor Day deadline Camp Kuleshov,...

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Chicago creative industry celebrates diversity

By Daniel Patton Jul 21, 2019

The Chicago Advertising Federation's Summer Diversity Mixer celebrates a wave of the future that’s been here all along Besides motivating consumers, increasing soci...

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Britt Nolan departs Leo Burnett

By Reel Chicago Jul 19, 2019

Internal memo obtained by Ad Age does not disclose the agency Nolan is heading to More changes are coming to Leo Burnett. Just two months after Liz Taylor announced sh...

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AbelsonTaylor hires SVP Christopher Dimmock

From AbelsonTaylor Jul 19, 2019

28-year veteran innovation specialist will oversee the agency's customer insights and engagement AbelsonTaylor, the world's largest independent health and wellness adv...

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Special screening of Chicago-made film Monuments at Music Box Theatre

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