Friday Odds and Ends

By Patrick Coffee 


-FCB Brasil went artsy as hell in this promo for the Creative Club.

-Arnold Boston has parted ways with president and chief client officer Sasha Hartman.

-Ronald McDonald (not the one from Always Sunny) eats a footlong in this new Subway spot from The Franchise, Dentsu’s dedicated shop including one mcgarrybowen.

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-Art director Max Cohen and copywriter Lorran Schoechet created an ad agency name generator fit to amuse you for at least 30 seconds.

-DDB creative technology officer Alexander Rea also created Dirty Ten Letter Word, a word-salad generator we just discovered, for a 2017 Tom Goodwin event. Exploit end-to-end networks!!

-Oh, and S.F. brand strategy and design studio Landscape has a super-snazzy new website.

-ICYMI, former Droga5 CEO Andrew Essex is bringing even more lights and ads into Times Square via a project called TSX Broadway.

-According to some British people, WPP has “turned a corner” in the first half of 2018 while Publicis was the worst performer in the Big Four.

-Amtrak picked a WPP team made up of Y&R, Mediacom, Wunderman and Culture ONE World as its new AOR after a review.

-BrewDog promises to drop the shock marketing tricks and focus more on the beer. Likely story.

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