Memorable Spokesmonsters through the ad ages
Barkers bark and pitch men pitch, but sometimes it’s the monster who sells.
For more than a
Barkers bark and pitch men pitch, but sometimes it’s the monster who sells.
For more than a
Thanks to interactive marketing agency NEXT/NOW, Chicago Bears’ Richard Dent has been virtually tackling Harry Caray’s customers since the beginning
Chicago media outlets are going where standard-sized ENG camera crews sometimes don’t tread: in locker rooms on the road where videos of the city’s athletes are now being relayed via
George Halas was intensely proud of his triple identity: son of Bohemian immigrants, lifelong Chicagoan and founder of the Chicago Bears.
Now his descendants are using
TODD LOOBY’S FEATURE BE GOOD opens Midwest Independent Film Festival’s 2013 season Feb. 5. The Chicago-made indie, written and directed by Looby, stars Amy Seimetz (of recent Sundance
He may not be Chicago’s glitziest advertising executive. And certainly not its most egomaniacal. But like the little engine that could, president and executive creative director David Stevenson gets the job
So five months after it all began, the ill-fated “The Rosie Show” looks to be near its end — at least as a Chicago-based production.
Rumors first surfaced late Tuesday on
TV ACADEMY’S CAREER DAY, Saturday, March 10 will update visual media professionals, TV Academy members and college students on the latest changes in the television industry,
GREG ALLAN’S SONIXPHERE tapped New York-based Clint Arent as director of East Coast business development, to focus on New York agencies. “An increasing amount of our
From the imaginative and colorful opening title sequence of “Close Quarters,” we are in the hands of debut feature filmmaker, Jack C. Newell,
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
The 3rd annual Advertising Community Shorts Night Tuesday at the Midwest Independent Film Festival, Tuesday, Oct. 1, presents the work of 15 filmmeisters from ad and marketing agencies,
DIGITAL KITCHEN has brought some Cannes glory to Chicago. The Chicago-based collective of more than 100 artists, designers and filmmakers walked off Wednesday with the Grand Prix in the design
MANY HOLLYWOOD AND LOCAL EXPERTS will lead seminars and panels May 7 during the Sundance Institute’s ShortsLab:Chicago at Columbia College, showing how filmmakers can show and promote their work, either
Laura Szymber’s Axiom Megamedia is working with ESPN to develop a series of Monday Night Football promos for the cable network’s 2011 NFL season.
The full-service production company was
Darryl Roberts, director and producer of the successful beauty industry expos? “America the Beautiful,” is in production on the second part of his “health and beauty series.”
Lars Ullberg’s Applied Creative Training (ACT) brought together an A-list team to produce two 30-second spots for Brookfield Zoo’s new 7.5-acre “Great Bear Wilderness,” the largest exhibit built on the
COMEDIAN TOM DRESSEN will MC the Oct. 27 invitation-only NBC premiere of the TV special, “The Heart of Hollywood: The Chicago Link,” shot by RDS at the recent
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
A rising star on the Chicago media scene, Jennifer Christenson hopes that “Positive,” a weekly magazine show celebrating uplifting news stories, many from viewers themselves, will boost the city’s