Ad Biz Wednesday Odds and Ends By Kiran Aditham on Aug. 22, 2012 - 4:24 PM –Good Karma $1, a film co-produced by Alex Bogusky and his FearLess Cottage along with Kids at Play, has been accepted into the DC Shorts Film Festival. link -Chicago-based, Publicis Groupe-owned performance marketing agency ...
Agencies | People Here’s More on Bogusky’s ‘Return’ to Advertising By Kiran Aditham on Jul. 10, 2012 - 4:25 PM Well, we had a feeling he still had one foot in the door considering that spies were hinting about this as far back as late April (and we were told by those in the know on the 26th of said month that it was “100% not true ...
Ad Biz Tuesday Odds and Ends By Kiran Aditham on Jul. 10, 2012 - 4:00 PM -L.A.-based company SocialVibe added ex-Wunderman VP John Capano as CMO and former O&M exec Bob Lonigro as VP of ad sales. -Digitaria’s Minneapolis office has hired former JWT MN strategic planning director Dan Jurek as ...
Ad Biz Tuesday Odds and Ends By Kiran Aditham on Apr. 10, 2012 - 4:45 PM -The Art Directors Club announced the global winners for its 91st Annual Awards (the juries did not select a Black Cube for best-in-show for the second time in the award’s four-year existence). link -While we’re at it, ...
Ad Biz Tuesday Morning Stir By Kiran Aditham on Mar. 27, 2012 - 9:45 AM -W+K Amsterdam promoted Clay Mills to managing director. link -Privacy advocates aren’t too pleased with the FTC’s new “Do Not Track” guidelines. link -Alex Bogusky draws inspiration from David Ogilvy as pa ...
Agencies CP+B, Hyper Island Aim to Bring About World Peace in Just Three Days By Kiran Aditham on Nov. 16, 2011 - 10:40 AM Perhaps CP+B’s taking a cue from its former leader and current Fearless fellow, Alex Bogusky, with its new effort called “72 Hours for Peace.” This morning, the agency “surprised” over 300 students at ...
Ad Biz Thursday Morning Stir By Kiran Aditham on Oct. 13, 2011 - 9:40 AM -HTC has kicked off its search for a global lead agency. link -Alex Bogusky and his FearLess blog editors remind us that the fifth of November is when we close our big retail bank accounts. link -Blackberry says they’re R ...
Agencies | People Guy Who Tweeted His Way into CP+B Leaves for BBDO By Kiran Aditham on Aug. 22, 2011 - 10:48 AM If you don’t know who Chris Kahle is, let us refresh your memory. In May 2009, the copywriter worked his way into CP+B by encouraging people to send tweets urging Alex Bogusky and Jeff Benjamin to hire him. Well, Kahle’ ...
Agencies | People Bogusky’s Common Collaborator Heads to Deutsch LA By Kiran Aditham on Aug. 16, 2011 - 1:34 PM We’re not sure what an “invention strategist” exactly is, but that’s the title that one Bud Caddell has assumed this week at Deutsch LA. Caddell, for those of you who don’t know, helped launched the c ...
Ad Biz Monday Odds and Ends By Kiran Aditham on Aug. 15, 2011 - 4:20 PM -Alex Bogusky shares more thoughts on COMMON (above). link -In case you forgot, the CLIO Healthcare Awards call for entries closes on August 26. link -Starbucks has 86’d the social media experiment known as Jonathan’s ...