Windy City West party guest list filling up fast
THE GUEST LIST for the 25th Windy West Party in L.A., bringing together Chicagoans in the Hollywood industry and Chicagoans flying in for the occasion, is growing longer as we
THE GUEST LIST for the 25th Windy West Party in L.A., bringing together Chicagoans in the Hollywood industry and Chicagoans flying in for the occasion, is growing longer as we
Downtown Partners/Chicago is out. Sources report the powers-that-be at Downtown Partners/Chicago have changed course and decided not to participate in the agency review drug store behemoth Walgreens launched just
SHOWTIME WILL AIR John Davies and Reid Brody’s acclaimed feature-length doc “Phunny Business: A Black Comedy,” Feb. 23 at 8:30 p.m. in celebration of Black History
When post producer Lauren Shawe returned to Chicago after seven years in New York, Leviathan’s Chad Hutson, recognizing how the quality of her internet, visual effects and post experience would
A HIGH PROFILE LAWSUIT was filed by local law firm Belongia Shapiro & Franklin – on behalf of its client, Croatian author Josip J. Knezevic, using
To say 2011 whizzed by is an understatement. The year about to end was — everything considered — a pretty good year for the Chicago advertising industry. At least compared
Did someone mention turnaround? Yes, for the first time in a very long time, there are substantial signs of a discernible, hope-engendering turnaround in the fortunes of Chicago’s beleaguered advertising
Bernie Pitzel has made a move. Yes, word will go out today that Pitzel — a true veteran of the Chicago ad scene — has changed his work address to
Today’s big shake-up in the Sprint ad agency roster will prompt plenty of fallout over the next several months. But sources today confirmed one of the shops to be hit
So far so… well, so not according to plan. The race to find a new ad agency for the Illinois Lottery has just begun, and already so much has
CHICAGO AREA good works companies won the biggest number of grants – a total of $500,000 — in the just-concluded 2011 Chase Community Giving program that asked the public to
It must have something to do with the holiday spirit, because one sure doesn’t see ad agencies in Chicago working so happily together all that often.
But that is exactly what
So the race is on to find the new ad agency of record for the Illinois Lottery. And from what we know now, it promises to be one of the
AICP SHOW UPDATE. One thousand adbiz folks will start the year’s end/holiday celebration season by attending the Thursday, Nov. 17 AICP Show at the Cultural Center.
“It’s going to be
On the crest of Utopic’s second year anniversary in December, partners editors Jan Maitland and Tim Kloehn, and executive producer Michael Antonucci have succeeded in evolving their company
THE COMMERCIALS DAM has burst and this last quarter of 2011 should be busy and profitable for the commercial production/post scene. Directors’ reps are swamped fielding agency bids for major
BEAST EDITORIAL has been rockin’ lately with more than its usual major advertising spot work. To wit: It edited a major doc that will showcase at the <a
Gertrude has made a move. Yes, the six-year-old ad agency founded and run by the ever-upbeat, ever-expansion-oriented Otis Gibson threw open the doors of its colorful, eclectically-decorated new home at
CRITICAL REVIEWS of the debut episode of the Chicago-set NBC series The Playboy Club were, to say the least, disappointing. It attracted a painfully low 1.6/4 rating in the 18-49
Detroit’s RingSide Creative (RSCP), owned by Cutters’ Tim McGuire and industry executive Steve Wild, launched Picnic.
“Picnic will be able to utilize all of our collective talent and resources