Topic: John St.
WPP Group has acquired Canadian agency John St. for an undisclosed sum. The Toronto-based boutique had unaudited revenue of about $13.6 million at the end of 2012, according to WPP. The…
Ha, ha, dumb advertising people, no one in his or her right mind cares about your lame industry awards! Ad agency John St. does a great job of communicating that…
Starting Wednesday, a walking, talking, pants-less billboard named Mark McIntyre will begin hitchhiking mostly naked across Canada. He will make the journey from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Truro, Nova Scotia,…
Clients are obsessed with it—how do you make a video go viral? Now, there's a simple, foolproof solution. Just call Buyral, the pioneer in getting children, interns, the elderly and…
If bullets were crayons, grenades blew bubbles and land mines exploded into picture books, kids in war-afflicted areas would be doing a lot better. Pollyanna-ish as that may sound, this…
John St., the Toronto agency that brought you last winter's wonderful Pink Ponies case-study video (showing how they made an 8-year-old's birthday party a success in an already cluttered birthday…
I must admit, my first thought while watching this ad for a Vancouver yoga center was: "Oh great, more f*cking zombies." Well, ad agency John St. must have seen that…
You'll enjoy this. Canadian ad agency John St., with a little help from Arcade Fire, put together this mock case study for one of its greatest marketing triumphs: Making Chelsea…
"Bad gifts can't save lives. War Child gifts actually do." That's the message of this spot-on Canadian campaign from ad agency John St. in Toronto. War Child presents are for…
The Television Bureau of Canada has been blowing its own horn after revealing that a campaign by Toronto agency John St. was a hoax. Excuse me, an experiment. The…

