View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | Digital | People Weird Al Stars in GSD&M’s Holiday Effort for Radio Shack By Erik Oster on Nov. 7, 2014 - 11:23 AM In an attempt to boost holiday sales, GSD&M enlisted the services of one Weird Al Yankovic on behalf of the struggling Radio Shack. The resurgent Yankovic, of course, just had the first number one album of his career with his ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | TV GSD&M Targets Wedding Season for Southwest Airlines By Erik Oster on Oct. 24, 2014 - 1:04 PM GSD&M is launching its fall campaign for Southwest Airlines with a new spot, entitled “Wedding,” which debuts this Sunday during NFL programming. The ad touts Southwest Airlines as the perfect partner for wedding s ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | TV | What The?? GSD&M Talks Protection for Radio Shack By Erik Oster on Jul. 31, 2014 - 12:42 PM GSD&M has a new back-to-school campaign for Radio Shack that makes good use of awkward humor to promote the brand’s protection plans. In “The Talk” for example, a dad tells his son it’s time they had &# ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | TV GSD&M Celebrates End of Wright Amendment for Southwest Airlines By Erik Oster on Jul. 9, 2014 - 10:28 AM Southwest Airlines has reason to celebrate following the repeal of the Wright Amendment, “an amendment to the International Air Transportation Act of 1979, restricting passenger flights out of Love Field to locations within ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Digital | TV GSD&M Combines Drinking, Spearfishing for Pacifico By Erik Oster on Jun. 9, 2014 - 5:08 PM GSD&M has a new campaign for Pacifico, entitled “Yellow Caps,” set to roll out this summer. “Yellow Caps” is a term “coined by bartenders and refers to Pacifico’s bright yellow bottle caps, whic ...
View Post Agencies | Campaigns GSD&M Convinces Southwest Airlines to Show Us Its Pearly Whites By Patrick Coffee on May. 19, 2014 - 6:15 PM Today Austin’s GSD&M released a sunny new spot for client Southwest Airlines in order to promote its just-announced vacation destinations. The “just got our passport” theme stems from the fact that Southwe ...
View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | Brands | Campaigns GSD&M Launch Zales Holiday Campaign with ‘Balloons’ By Erik Oster on Nov. 5, 2013 - 10:49 AM GSD&M has Zales’ “Let Love Shine” holiday campaign with the spot “Balloon,” featuring the surprisingly not terrible music of Lord Huron. I say “surprisingly not terrible” because of th ...
View Post Agencies | Campaigns GSD&M, Welikesmall Make Science Look Cool for U.S. Air Force By Erik Oster on Oct. 2, 2013 - 11:37 AM Yeah bitch, science! If you’ve been paying attention to education in this country, you probably know that U.S. students aren’t stacking up so great against students around the world. They’re currently ranked 25th globally in ...
Brands | Campaigns GSD&M Bows First Work for Walgreens By Kiran Aditham on Aug. 13, 2012 - 3:45 PM Three months after reportedly beating out McGarryBowen for Walgreens creative duties, Austin’s own GSD&M has unveiled its first campaign for the drug store chain, which carries the tagline “At the Corner of Happy & ...
Agencies | People Russell Takes ECD Post at GSD&M By Kiran Aditham on May. 16, 2012 - 4:23 PM A lot of happenings to report at the Austin-based, Omnicom-owned GSD&M, which has confirmed that Jay Russell has been appointed as executive creative director at the agency. From what one tipster tells us, “They finally ...
