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DDB Seeks New U.S. CD on McDonald's Shop aims to fill key role by December

DDB is seeking a new creative leader on the U.S. portion of its global McDonald’s account as Bill Cimino prepares to move to Young & Rubicam. Cimino has been U.S. creative…

October 17, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT

Y&R Fills Global New Business Role Hire comes from consultancy world

Young & Rubicam CEO David Sable has found his new business development chief at a search consultancy. Cathy Cohan, a lead consultant at Roth Associates in New York, is now global…

September 25, 2012, 10:15 AM EDT

Goldsmith Will 'Do' and Teach Starts as chairman of Art Center advertising department next month

Not withstanding Woody Allen's quip about the divide between doing and teaching, Gary Goldsmith aims to do both. Goldsmith, a former creative leader at Young & Rubicam and Lowe, was named…

August 7, 2012, 1:25 PM EDT

Ogilvy Wins Nascar's Big Shop Battle Shop's first work will break in early '13

In Nascar's battle of the big boys, Ogilvy & Mather came out on top. The other contenders for Nascar's advertising account were Leo Burnett, McCann Erickson and Young & Rubicam. Y&R, however,…

July 19, 2012, 11:28 AM EDT

Colgate Sells Dental Floss With Help From Photoshop Disasters Can you spot what's wrong with these ads?

Everyone loves a good Photoshop disaster. Here's a fun campaign from Y&R Brazil that makes use of three such disasters, intentionally manufactured to sell dental floss. The point is, when…

July 17, 2012, 12:08 PM EDT

Goodyear Keeps Drivers Distracted With Bubble Wrap 'Sometimes it's not easy to stop'

Y&R in Brazil put together an interesting stunt for Goodyear recently, inserting sheets of bubble wrap into newspapers and handing them out to drivers in São Paolo as they waited…

July 5, 2012, 8:29 AM EDT

Go Ahead: Shoot the Agency CMO The new-business role is important, but it can also be a thankless one

Turnover may not be unusual among agency CMOs, but the churn has been particularly heavy this year. Since January, new-business leaders at six agencies—Draftfcb, DDB, JWT, Young & Rubicam, Deutsch LA…

June 18, 2012, 12:03 AM EDT

LendingTree Is Back in Review Creative search is second in less than a year

LendingTree is at it again. Less than a year after a protracted search for a new lead agency, the online player is reviewing its creative business once more. Company executives will…

June 7, 2012, 1:06 PM EDT

Nursing Home Turns Out to Be Perfect Setting for Condom Ad Old man learns a lesson a bit too late

An assisted-living facility would seem to be an unpromising location in which to set a condom ad. But Young & Rubicam's Buenos Aires office proves otherwise in this amusingly overwrought…

June 6, 2012, 3:06 PM EDT

Huge Hires First New Business Chief Agency growth triggers role

Chris Hayes is getting back to his digital roots. Less than two years after joining Young & Rubicam in a business development role, Hayes is leaving to become a global managing…

June 1, 2012, 11:32 AM EDT

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