People | What The?? Mangan Does His Best Goodby Impression in ‘Exit Interview’ By Kiran Aditham on Jun. 20, 2012 - 10:45 AM Two weeks ago, we learned that Craig Mangan was leaving Goodby Silverstein & Partners after 17 years to take the creative helm at BBDO San Francisco. Anyhow, this video just dropped in our tips box last night and even if you&# ...
Agencies | People Barrett Splits from Goodby, Starts New Shop By Kiran Aditham on May. 9, 2012 - 11:45 AM Well, maybe it’s too little, too late since other folks picked this up but hey, still newsworthy. Since we were out indulging ourselves in all the ADC Awards shenanigans, we missed a couple of tips that came into the Spy lin ...
Brands | Campaigns Did You Pay Your Taxes…Or At Least Do Happy Hour? By Kiran Aditham on Apr. 18, 2012 - 1:10 PM Goodby, Silverstein & Partners launched this new ad for just in time for tax day deadline yesterday. Did you take advantage of the brand’s all-price happy hour to alleviate the pain (or joy) on this, the merriest day of ...
Agencies | Brands GM Taps GS&P + McCann to Lead Global Chevy Biz By Kiran Aditham on Mar. 27, 2012 - 1:05 PM Odd, but interesting turn of events as rival holding companies Omnicom and IPG earlier joined forces to create “Commonwealth,” which will now serve as global AOR for Chevrolet. Specifically, the Chevy business will be ...
Agencies | Brands | Campaigns | Social Media Sonic’s ‘Two Guys’ Get ‘Rehired’ in Social Media Publicity Stunt By Bob Marshall on Feb. 22, 2012 - 1:09 PM For eight years, NYC-based former “The Colbert Report” writer Peter Grosz (driver’s seat) and Chicago-based improv comedian T.J. Jagodowski (passenger’s seat), were best know as “those two guys” ...
Agencies Jeff Goodby Sends Us a Note Regarding Staff Cuts By Kiran Aditham on Feb. 8, 2012 - 2:51 PM We’ve been hearing about it for the past few hours on the Spy line and now we’ve received word straight from the source that it’s true that Goodby, Silverstein + Partners is cutting staff today. The numbers are a ...
Agencies | Brands | TV Comcast Doesn’t Need Your Teary Apology By Bob Marshall on Jan. 4, 2012 - 12:28 PM From Goodby and prodco O Positive comes new television campaign “Homecoming” for Comcast’s Triple-Play cable TV, Internet, and telephone service, Xfinity. If you live in a region where Comcast is the only cable s ...
Ad Biz Friday Morning Stir By Kiran Aditham on Oct. 21, 2011 - 9:34 AM -Four of the big holding companies have been invited to GM’s new global review for Chevrolet. Jeff Goodby doesn’t seem worried. link -Stink U.K.’s MD/EP Daniel Bergmann and DDB Brazil CEO/president Sergio Valente ...
Brands | Campaigns Now, It’s Goodby’s Turn to Celebrate the Chevy ‘Centennial’ By Kiran Aditham on Oct. 20, 2011 - 10:55 AM Now that we’ve got the whole Mother/Chevy/Goodby confusion out of the way (we hope), here’s the previously mentioned “Centennial” work from GS&P that broke during game one of the World Series last night ...
Agencies | Brands | Digital Mother, Chevy Make First Stop While Traveling ‘The Road We’re On’ By Bob Marshall on Oct. 12, 2011 - 2:29 PM In late August, Jeff Goodby and GM’s global marketing chief Joel Ewanick had a scuffle over GS+P’s consistency with work for Chevy, with each man using Automotive News as their platform of choice. With many in Detroit ...