View Post Ad Biz Wednesday Odds and Ends By Kiran Aditham on Apr. 10, 2013 - 4:32 PM -WPP-owned digital network Possible has promoted Lucas Peon to chief creative officer of the Cincinnati office. Peon replaces Hank McLendon. -Big Spaceship has promoted Ranae Heuer, who has spent the last four years leading the Br ...
Agencies | People Colasanti Out at VSA By Kiran Aditham on Sep. 1, 2011 - 1:11 PM If you don’t remember the name John Colasanti, here’s your refresher: Two years back, the former CEO/managing partner at Carmichael Lynch, where he spent 15 years, joined up with VSA Partners, which former Chicago Sun- ...
Ad Biz | People Lewis Lazare is Back with New Column, Same Bowtie By Bob Marshall on Jun. 7, 2011 - 4:53 PM Everyone’s favorite Chicago advertising reporter, Lewis Lazare, is back in the mix after being cut from the Sun-Times back in March. My, how we’ve missed this guy. Lazare’s new column will appear in The Reel Chic ...
Agencies | Brands Cricket Leaves Element 79, Goes to TPN By Bob Marshall on Mar. 30, 2011 - 4:37 PM We just got official word that mobile service provider Cricket Communications has appointed Dallas-based agency TPN as the company’s new AOR, bringing to an end the company’s over six-year relationship with Chicago-bas ...
Ad Biz | People ‘Sun-Times’ Cuts Lewis Lazare By Kiran Aditham on Mar. 18, 2011 - 11:18 AM And so it has come to pass. Yes folks, our old pal Lewis Lazare, he of the marketing/media reporting ilk at the Chicago Sun-Times, has been let go by the paper. And no, there was no party at DDB Chicago celebrating Lazare’s ...
Brands SC Johnson Review: Down to Five(?) By Kiran Aditham on Mar. 11, 2011 - 10:38 AM Though it already rained on Draftfcb Chicago’s parade (ok, maybe there wasn’t one), SC Johnson seems to be finally getting down to brass tacks. According to Lewis Lazare at the Chicago Sun-Times, the $1 billion account ...
Agencies | Brands S.C. Johnson Drops Big Lump of Coal in Draftfcb’s Stocking By Kiran Aditham on Dec. 23, 2010 - 11:27 AM So much for holiday spirit. Lewis Lazare over at the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Wisconsin-based home care products giant S.C. Johnson decided earlier week to basically put every ad account from its global portfolio of bra ...