Agencies How Many Interviews Does it Take? By SpyWriter on Aug. 25, 2008 - 12:00 AM A tip from an AS reader suggests the the trend in terrible hiring practices as of late is continuing with Digitas. “Digitas’s Recruitment is the dumbest team in the marketing industry, the stories of trying to fill eve ...
Campaigns Hallmark Has a Card for Every Occasion By SpyWriter on Aug. 22, 2008 - 12:39 PM California and Massachusetts both recognize gay marriage and now the nation’s largest greeting card company does too. An AP report says that Hallmark is introducing a new line of same-sex wedding greeting cards. Although the ...
People Nationwide’s Idol By SpyWriter on Aug. 22, 2008 - 12:07 PM The latest pitchman for the Nationwide Insurance “Life Comes At You Fast” campaign is a real hair raiser. American Idol’s Sanjaya Malakar will be featured in the latest commercial. This is the newest spot in a se ...
Agencies Rapp Collins Update By SpyWriter on Aug. 21, 2008 - 8:08 PM The tips keep pouring in… Seems Rapp Collins was indeed all about mismanagement as we were originally told. One tipster had this to say about the whole situation: “It was simple. They won a new client and wouldn’ ...
Ad Biz Coke Will Not Find This Funny By SpyWriter on Aug. 20, 2008 - 8:17 AM A very similar picture to the one of the Spanish basketball team has surfaced of the Argentine womens football team “impersonating” Chinese people but this time it’s while wearing the name of a sponsor. The team ...
Ad Biz Olympics Winning with Women By SpyWriter on Aug. 20, 2008 - 7:57 AM I read an article in the NY Times that talks about how the Olympics is a great time to market to women consumers. It is arguably the one time that most women are engaged in watching sports. According to the article research done b ...
Agencies The A-Team By SpyWriter on Aug. 19, 2008 - 10:56 PM A tipster asked why we don’t have Seiter & Miller on our list? Well, it’s true that their client list is solid. But they haven’t had any exciting new business wins or any especially interesting campaigns that ...
Agencies Rapp Collins Taking a Big Hit? By SpyWriter on Aug. 19, 2008 - 10:52 PM We received two tips that Rapp Collins has let lots of employees go today. One tipster sited the reasons as “poor mismanagement of freelancers and 2 clients who didnt pay”. Rapp Collins is an agency that’s always ...
Campaigns Family Guy Creator Works for Burger King By SpyWriter on Aug. 19, 2008 - 5:45 PM According to Brand Republic, the creator of ‘Family Guy’, Seth McFarlane will create ads for Burger King. The ads will be airing before his new video clip show ‘Calvacade of Comedy’. The videos will be dist ...
Agencies Over After All This Time By SpyWriter on Aug. 18, 2008 - 12:15 AM Brand Republic reports that Lowe is ending its 26 year relationship with Stella Artois and it’s makers, InBev. This comes on the heels of InBev’s decision to have Mother promote their new special brew of Stella. Their ...