Miller Lite taps DraftFCB for $100 million account
Any substantial, new advertising account that lands in Chicago these days is a reason for rejoicing and DraftFCB’s winning MillerCoors’ Miller Lite was reason to break out the, well,
Any substantial, new advertising account that lands in Chicago these days is a reason for rejoicing and DraftFCB’s winning MillerCoors’ Miller Lite was reason to break out the, well,
Twenty years ago this fall, Roy Skillicorn, who was at the peak of his career as a top print and motion rep, and his friend, director Blair Stribley, whose young
Jamie King and Joy Schwartz were named co-presidents of Euro RSCG Chicago. King returns to Chicago from serving as president/CEO of Publicis & Hal Riney San Francisco. Schwartz
LOVE IS IN THE AIR for the first Hollywood project to be shot in Chicago so far this year, breaking the nine-month dry spell and portending more
ACCORDING TO RELIABLE SOURCES, one of the A-List L.A. directors, who came here for the Leo Burnett/Olympic Committee shoot last week, got into a bit of trouble at
Dear Abby: It is very admirable of Leo Burnett to work with the Olympic Committee to help bring the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, a civic endeavor subsidized by many
3D animator/director Paul Griswold has to his credit projects involving Cate Blanchett, Coldplay, Shepherd Fairey, David Bryne, and RZA without leaving his home town of Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
DRAFTFCB ADDED TWO TOP CREATIVES, industry veterans Doug Behm and Jon Flannery as SVP/CDs to work on the agency’s KFC account.
Since
MAYOR DALEY PROCLAIMS JAN. 30 “ER” DAY in Chicago, and in a twist you rarely if ever hear of ? “ER” will present a gift to
BELEAGUERED GOV. BLAGOJEVICH’S spokesman, Lucio Guerrero, announced on Sunday that the governor would sign our tax incentive bill into law on Monday, and sure
The best of Chicago’s advertising is apparently created by a handful of major ad agencies, if the number of prizes they won at the recent Creative Club Awards is any
When Mindy Verson learned that pop sensation Backstreet Boys were going to perform at Ravinia in late August, she picked up the phone and called her old friend, their manager.
James Lipetzky and Samantha Hart’s four-year old Foundation can claim being the first Chicago post house to transform itself into a full-service production company long before the current trend
“Kate,” one of 78 “reporters” vying for five finalist positions, is the highest rated candidate in the competition, and the only “reporter” who actually has been reporting on presidential
Shooting on location soon might become an unnecessary expense as producers increasingly turn to the use of pre-shot motion content.
“People don’t need to
CASTING DIRECTOR CLAIRE SIMON is in Detroit last week casting parts for a new ABC series, “The Prince of Motor City,” to be directed by “Lost” writer Jack
A RARE AND PERFECT CHOICE are Chicago natives Virgina Madsen and her brother, Michael Madsen to MC the SAG Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Gala
The AICP added a committee of 15 persons to judge a new category called Advertising Excellence/Next for the upcoming 2008 AICP Show, which arrives in Chicago five months after
STORY’S BIGGEST JOB EVER, says executive producer Mark Androw, is a two-country shoot for one of the Big Four automakers, whose name or car model he could not
Andrea Wassel drew on her years of experience as an agency spot producer, “among the ego and chaos” on L.A. and New York shoots, as inspiration for “Leftovers,” her