McGarryBowen's new business bonanza continued Wednesday. The agency's New York office won the high-profile and prestigious United Airlines advertising account. Accor...
Lisa Donohue, CEO of Starcom USA, has added still another award to the lengthy list of honors she’s accumulated over the past 24 years as a leading light of Starcom and MediaV...
A veritable who’s who of social media experts from Chicago’s biggest companies are being signed up for the first Social Media Week Chicago along with hosts, events and in-ki...
TO START A DOC on a subject close to their hearts, Media Process Group producers Bob Hercules and John McCarthy launched a Kickstarter site, to raise $5,000 for a trailer for th...
Who knew? Chicago’s very own Rich Stoddart is a big fan of big ideas in advertising.Late Monday, Stoddart, president of Leo Burnett North America was openly crowing...
The Midwest’s biggest single provider of production and satellite services is a new entity formed through a strategic partnership of RingSide Creative, Jeff Moon Production Se...
A secret angel picking up the cost of the event and donating his own funds for the $28,000 prize money, all for the good of the local arts community, makes the Aug. 12-15 wINDIE...
IN THE REALM of advertising, few categories are more challenging — or intriguing — than that of plain old toilet paper.Yes, everyone’s gotta have it. And it is — t...
After 14-years in Los Angeles as an executive producer of commercials, Dan Bryant is thrilled to be working Chicago again, as the Whitehouse Chicago’s new executive producer.J...
OPRAH SAYS SHE’S CONSUMED with management and programming problems for her OWN cable network, but there’s a lovely honor ahead to take her mind off her business concerns.&nb...
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER sure got it wrong when it published its July 27 inaugural list of 25 top film schools in the world and egregiously omitting Columbia College –- one of t...
AS OF NOW, Michigan’s film incentives funding is close to being maxed out. A comparatively meager $2.25 million remains out of the current $25 million film fund, and tha...
It’s over for DraftFCB. As many had suspected from the moment we announced last Christmas Eve that S.C. Johnson was launching an agency review, the Racine, Wis.-based ho...
That loud thud heard at noon on Tuesday was the sound of several hundred jaws dropping in disbelief — and dismay — as Chicago’s new mayor, Rahm Emanuel, addressed the city...
Cursing your luck because you didn’t order your Lollapalooza tickets soon enough and now it’s a sell out? No worries. Haul out the beer and watch the concerts on...
The champagne corks aren’t popping. And the confetti is nowhere to be seen. Mark this down as one anniversary that news ratings-challenged WFLD-Channel 32 isn’t ...
FANS OF GREAT BANDS and ground-breaking Chicago composers and musicians of the ‘90s are invited to The Hideout Wednesday, July 27, to see a preview of a feature doc by Paris-b...
FILMING A TRIO OF COWBOYS as they traveled the exciting, high stakes rodeo circuit took documentarian H. D. Motyl and his crew through six western states, shooting steadily from...
New York’s billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently gave a $6 million grant to Mayor Rahm Emanuel to use for various city programs. One of them is finding ways to create g...
THE 48 HOUR PROJECT is gearing up for the July 29-31 Chicago challenge to see who can make the best short film, from script to screen, in 48 hours. Any team, regardle...
