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The Onion touts “Lawnbnb” in a pair of Scotts spots

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 7, 2016

Spring has arrived along with a pair of refreshing 50-second native content videos for Scotts Lawn and Care created by The Onion Labs.Produced and created for Boston-based...

Famous feature DP lenses Burnett / Marshall’s spot

By Colin Costello Apr 7, 2016

Leo Burnett’s newest advertainment for retailer Marshall’s was shot by acclaimed Euro/LA-based cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema (“Interstellar,” “Spectre”), c...

Crain’s: DigitasLBI #1 Best Place to Work in Chicago

By Mike Morgan Apr 5, 2016

Interactive agency DigitasLBi has the honor of being named by Crain’s the #1 Best Place to work in Chicago, in the business publication’s 8th annual survey – the only ad a...

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MillerCoors, Beam agency Mekanism set up shop here

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 5, 2016

WHILE MEKANISM AGENCY has been quietly in Chicago for several months to support its MillerCoors brands and Jim Beam US accounts on an up close and personal basis, the official a...

“Like a Girl” creative A.J. Hassan joins R/GA as ECD

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 5, 2016

A.J. Hassan, the Leo Burnett VP/CD, acclaimed for her work as a key creative on the multi-honored viral phenom “Like a Girl” for Always/P&G, has joined R/GA as executive...

Ad industry, SAG-AFTRA tentatively agree on contract

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 4, 2016

The advertising industry and SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative agreement Sunday for a new television and radio contract — likely worth more than $1 billion per year in billings �...

NY firms back Chicago-made TV comedy show “The Jamz”

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 1, 2016

If there ever were an “overnight success story,” this is it! Unknown Chicago-made and Chicago-set comedy shorts called “The Jamz” is discovered by New York powerbrokers ...

GERTRUDE’S new RAYE brands with shipping containers

By Colin Costello Apr 1, 2016

A common brand mandate for agency creatives is to think outside of the box. Otis Gibson, founder / CEO 11-year-old global brand and development agency, GERTRUDE,INC. has upturne...

Tribeca taps indie producers to pitch at film market

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 1, 2016

“Signature Move” producers filmmaker Eugene Sun Park and Brian Hiegglke, publisher of Newcity magazine, were selected as 2016 Tribeca All Access Fellows attending the Tribec...

Incubator Stage 18 set for office and stage buildout

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 30, 2016

Construction of 7,500-sq. ft. of office space for Stage 18 at Cinespace Studios, the area’s first media and entertainment incubator, will start shortly and is expected to be f...

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Four local agencies win 7 social media Shorty Awards

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 29, 2016

FOUR CHICAGO AGENCIES — DDB Chicago, Leo Burnett, DigitasLBI, and Havas Worldwide — are among the 66 category winners of the 8th Annual Shorty Awards for content o...

Annual union basketball game wins big for charity

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 29, 2016

The recent annual Chicago Classic basketball game between court rivals Local 476 Studio Mechanics and Local 600 Camera Operators ended in victory for Local 476, which scored 49 ...

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VR is on its way, but the question is, do we need it?

By Gary Adcock Mar 29, 2016

The much awaited OculusVR headset finally started shipping last week, setting the gaming and VR worlds a’fire. Yet the delivery may have signaled a far larger issue with the t...

FCB hires St. Clair in new integrated production role

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 28, 2016

DDB Chicago’s SVP/executive producer Will St. Clair will join FCB Chicago on Monday, April 11 as its Director of Integrated Production, a new position created within the agenc...

G&J closes Anderson-run fashion models division

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 27, 2016

Grossman & Jack Talent officially closed its seven-year old fashion models division, Agency Galatea, last Friday after it gave two weeks’ notice to its founder / director ...

Equipment sale marks the end of Brad Barrett Lighting

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 27, 2016

All good things must come to an end, as the old adage goes. And one of those good things is the closing of lighting director Brad Barrett’s 15-year old AGLS — A Great ...

“Batman vs. Superman?” Ad execs weigh in on the victor

By Colin Costello Mar 24, 2016

As you undoubtedly know, “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice,” one of 2016’s most anticipated films – produced for a stunning $410 million -- opens globally at theaters...

Steve Conrad among TV pros at TV Awards, April 18-20

By Ruth L Ratny Mar 23, 2016

Writer/director Steve Conrad, actor Gary Cole, TV show creators and “Empire’s” key crew members will be among the TV pros holding forth on the trials and triumphs of TV sh...

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Gearing up for latest in VR, HDR & Dolbyvision at NAB

By Gary Adcock Mar 23, 2016

April will be here soon and that means one thing in our industry. Vegas, baby! — the NAB Show April 16-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the exhibit floo...

Oceanic doc to be filmed over 40 days in the Arctic

By Simon Mounsey Mar 23, 2016

Two Columbia College faculty members are coproducing a documentary to showcase the ocean from a previously unexplored perspective of the Microuniverse that will be filmed over s...

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