Ad Biz Chicago Does Work With The Chicago Portfolio School By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 23, 2010 - 3:09 PM After doing some digging, we’ve learned that the Chicago Portfolio School has teamed with ad agency Downtown Partners Chicago for its quarterly ad-competition, The Royale Rumble. DPC will officially sponsor the project, acco ...
Agencies Loren Victory to Co-Head Team Detroit’s Integrated Content Division By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 23, 2010 - 2:39 PM Loren Victory has been named the head of Team Detroit’s new Integrated Content division, according to Corryl Parr, the company’s Director of Communications. Victory will serve as SVP and Director of Integrated Content, ...
Agencies Layoffs at Organic Detroit By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 22, 2010 - 3:20 PM Organic Detroit let go of approximately 72 of its 175 employees last week, a source close to the company confirms. Layoffs at the digital agency primarily affected contractors and junior-staffers, leaving upper management intact. ...
Agencies Young & Rubicam Chicago Win Einstein Bros. By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 18, 2010 - 2:59 PM Young & Rubicam’s Chicago office has been named Agency of Record for Einstein Bros. Bagel Co., beating out three other agencies in the bidding process, according to a joint press release issued by the companies. “W ...
Agencies DDB Chicago Shakes it Up By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 18, 2010 - 1:25 PM DDB Chicago is saying farewell to its top new business executive, according to AdAge. Nancy Leibig, who has been with DDB since January 2007, was once the business development golden girl at Draftfcb. Despite the much-publicized s ...
Events Boomers Swarm Chicago By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 16, 2010 - 2:06 PM Chicago opens its arms to Baby Boomers this Friday, for the 7th Annual What’s Next Boomer Business Summit. Sound boring? Not so fast ye’ whippersnappers. According to the website for Agency Five-0, an over 50 marketing ...
Agencies Seaman is C-K’s COO By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 16, 2010 - 10:35 AM Chicago-based Cramer-Krasselt has named Karen Seaman as the agency’s first Chief Operating Officer. Seaman has served as the General Manager of C-K’s Chicago Headquarters since 2006, and has a 21-year tenure with the c ...
What The?? AT&T: This Could Get F-ugly By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 15, 2010 - 3:17 PM According to Buzzfeed, AT&T has a new “portmanteaus” ad campaign (vocab check: Portmanteaus is fancypants for combining two words to make one. You know you were about to Google it). We can only imagine the PC/PR sh ...
Events Luck of The Chi-rish By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 12, 2010 - 12:23 PM Doesn’t matter if you’re Polish, Chinese, African-American, Native American, French, or Republican, come St. Patrick’s Day, if you live in Chicago, you’re 100 percent Chi-rish according to Miller Lite. In t ...
Campaigns Chat Stew: Sarah Palin and Other Enigmas By Kaitlin Madden on Mar. 11, 2010 - 4:16 PM Canadian talk-radio station NewsTalk 1010 invites Torontonians to discuss the fact that Sarah Palin is a best-selling author, that knitting needles are allowed on planes (if accompanied by yarn), and other bat-shit concepts in a n ...