Friday Odds and Ends

By Erik Oster 


-Huge and Everytown for Gun Safety are calling on viewers to wear orange for National Gun Violence Prevention Day (video above). 

Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners also worked on a project for National Gun Violence Prevention Day. “The idea for this tribute came from our own internal teams who selected victims of recent tragedies…to other well known victims ranging from Dr. Martin Luther King to Tupak to Abraham Lincoln,” BSSP executive creative director Tom Coates explained in a statement.

-Grey New York creative recruiter Angelique Moreno left the agency to become head of talent at Argonaut.

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-Agency Other New York and Everlast make some commentary on the absence of female athletes from sports coverage.

Ad Contrarian thinks ad blocking would be totally unnecessary if we could just get rid of all that damned tracking.

-VR platform Kaleidoscope ​and ​production company 1stAveMachine​​ ​are working together.

-We have to agree with More About Advertising: Cannes won’t be quite as fun this year without all the booze and noise to block out the ads.

-Burger King’s McWhopper campaign won the Grand Effie last night. Surprised? No, no you are not.

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