View Post Ad Biz | Agencies Bissell Names Olson Agency of Record By Erik Oster on May. 12, 2014 - 1:18 PM Top-selling floor-care appliance brand Bissell has named Minneapolis-based independent agency Olson its agency of record, shifting creative, media, strategy, digital, PR, social and analytics to Olson. Those duties were previously ...
View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | Brands Sharp Shifts Gears from McGarryBowen to Olson By Kiran Aditham on Oct. 24, 2013 - 1:25 PM It looks like Sharp isn’t planning to just work with small roster shops next year after all. Just days after we reported that the electronics brand and McGarryBowen’s relationship was coming to an end, Sharp has announ ...
View Post Agencies Olson Makes Some Changes to Brand/Digital Group By Kiran Aditham on Oct. 11, 2013 - 3:29 PM On this Friday late afternoon, we don’t want to spare the preamble but here’s what occurred today at Minneapolis-based agency Olson, whose CEO John Partilla (who took over at the beginning of the year) had to say to st ...
View Post Agencies | People Olson COO Murphy Takes On New Title By Kiran Aditham on Apr. 3, 2013 - 12:55 PM Just to soothe the usual doomsday tips, we’ve been told by those in the know that Margaret Murphy’s position as chief operating officer at Olson is indeed being eliminated, but the exec is very much within the fold at ...
View Post Ad Biz | Agencies | People Partilla Takes Over as Olson CEO By Kiran Aditham on Jan. 15, 2013 - 11:15 AM Once again, good on ya, tipsters. A major changing of the guards has indeed taken place at Minneapolis agency, Olson, as John Partilla has succeeded Kevin DiLorenzo as CEO. Partilla joins Olson from Dentsu Network West (which incl ...
People | What The?? Today’s Ad Industry Scandal: John Partilla’s Strange Love Story By Kiran Aditham on Dec. 22, 2010 - 11:16 AM Love blossoms in mysterious ways, and in the case of ad exec John Partilla and former WNBC reporter Carol Anne Riddell, it destroyed two marriages as a result. Partilla, in case you didn’t know, just recently left Clear Chan ...
