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Topic: Mckinney

Mini Cooper Selects Semifinalists Agency visits to begin in two weeks

Mini Cooper's creative and media review is down to six agencies. The carmaker's marketing executives will now visit the shops before selecting three finalists. Incumbent Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners is…

February 10 2012

Ad of the Day: Lenovo A skydiving laptop must boot up quickly or face certain death

Frustrated with the sluggish boot speed of your laptop? Lenovo suggests chucking it out of an airplane with an elaborate parachute rig set to deploy if, and only if, the…

July 19 2011

McKinney makes game about homelessness

If you were $10 away from living on the streets, would you pocket money from your kid's birthday card? If you could only afford to pay one bill, would it…

February 14 2011

Enjoy Twitter ad links without all the Twitter

A common and persuasive argument against Twitter is: "Who has the time?" It's true that Twitter can be a rabbit hole that sucks up big chunks of a day. On…

February 01 2011

Gold's Gym peddles other kinds of strength

This is a nice campaign in a dreary category. Gold's Gym is looking to shed any lingering perceptions that its clientele is mostly steroid-stuffed meathead weightlifters. It had McKinney craft…

January 26 2011

'Greatest Spokesperson' not really too great

It's been 10 years since Geico unexpectedly hit spokesperson gold with its animated gecko, who was originally intended just to kill time during a Screen Actors Guild strike.…

February 17 2010

Travelocity's gnome keeps going and going

I've never really gotten the Travelocity Roaming Gnome or understood the campaign's enduring popularity. Wasn't there a traveling garden gnome craze that inspired the ads, or was it vice…

July 30 2009

Gold's Gym can't look at your nasty cankles

Gold's Gym and McKinney are making war on "cankles," a slang term for how an overweight person's calves don't narrow at the ankle. Gold's is ramping up efforts to…

July 02 2009

Your filthy, furry drug habit will not go away

Pugsley of Rabbit directed this entertaining and memorable "Above the Influence" spot from McKinney for the Partnership for a Drug Free America. A stoner dude's "problem" takes the form of…

February 18 2009

McKinney wants to sit down and have a talk

McKinney has redone its Web site with an interesting "conversational" twist. Seeing as search has become the way people navigate online—Google's top search term is "google," after all—McKinney is…

February 11 2009

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