Ad Biz Ban Facebook at Work? The Brits think so… By OnDownLow on Apr. 24, 2008 - 11:42 AM In a blow to the Mark Zuckerberg’s of the world, a majority of employees in the UK believe that social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace should be banned from the workplace. A survey of 1000 people by online surv ...
Agencies | TV | What The?? Sexual molestation of kids in a cereal bar ad? By OnDownLow on Apr. 24, 2008 - 10:17 AM A UK-targeted Kellogg’s ad, created by Leo Burnett London, has been cleared of making light of the sexual abuse of young people. The ad for a Nutri-Grain cereal bar was set in a doctor’s examination room, with a young ...
Agencies R/GA London picks up a new leader By OnDownLow on Apr. 24, 2008 - 9:41 AM R/GA, the IPG-owned global digital agency, has hired AKQA’s Jim Moffatt as the managing director of its two-year-old London office. Moffatt, the former director of integration at AKQA, joined that agency in 2006. Before that ...
Agencies Raise a glass to Euro RSCG By OnDownLow on Apr. 24, 2008 - 9:11 AM The London office of Euro RSCG is close to finalizing a deal to be the AOR for Chivas Regal. The agency picked up the business following a two-way pitch against the incumbent agency, TBWA\Worldwide. Pernod Ricard initially briefed ...
Ad Biz i-level cashes in by selling out By OnDownLow on Apr. 24, 2008 - 8:57 AM ILG Digital, the parent company of i-level, is close to signing a deal to sell a majority stake in the business to ECI, a UK-based private equity group. I-level, the UK’s largest independent media agency, has been the subjec ...
Agencies Ask & ye shall receive… By OnDownLow on Apr. 23, 2008 - 2:05 PM So we have a query for the “AD-vice” column — and it seems like the classically typical thing an agency does — hopefully you kids can help our intrepid questioner out. Now away with the show: “I’ ...
Ad Biz “AD-vice” By OnDownLow on Apr. 23, 2008 - 1:08 PM Based off one suggestion last week — this is the title of the advice column (at least until a better name comes along) in the hopes of being able to use the collective power of the group to answer industry-related questions. ...
Agencies A new Second Life Kingdon (sp?) By OnDownLow on Apr. 23, 2008 - 12:28 PM Yes kids… the title is spelled incorrectly for a reason (and not one of those fuck-ups you are so intent on pointing out.) Mark Kingdon has jumped ship from the CEO of Organic, an Omnicom digital shop loosely aligned with BB ...
Agencies | We Hear? No “Sweet” ending at Tribal DDB SF for Dorian… By OnDownLow on Apr. 23, 2008 - 11:46 AM Where there’s smoke there’s fire, or so the saying goes: Word on the street (via our killer tip box) is that their is some shit going down at Tribal DDB San Francisco (ed note: yay — more Tribal DDB stuff to disc ...
We Hear? Western Union looking to transfer to one global shop By OnDownLow on Apr. 23, 2008 - 11:35 AM Western Union has put its new global brand campaign up for pitch, shortlisting proposals from three contenders: McCann Erickson India, Leo Burnett Chicago and Publicis Hong Kong. The financial services and communications giant cur ...