View Post Agencies | Events ‘The Big Ad Gig’ Offers Its Annual Employment Boost for the Young and Inexperienced By Jordan Teicher on Sep. 3, 2013 - 9:37 AM “The Big Ad Gig” turns five this year, meaning there’s another chance for six creatives to win a monthlong paid freelancing job at a New York City agency. Similar to last year’s campaign, contestants will ...
Agencies | Events ‘The Big Ad Gig’ is Once Again Upon Us By Kiran Aditham on Aug. 7, 2012 - 11:05 AM Is it already that time again? The folks at Atmosphere Proximity have once again joined forces with The New York Times to launch the latest installment of “The Big Ad Gig.” We’ve been told by those in the know th ...
Agencies | People Ruffo to Succeed Roche as CEO of Lowe Roche By Kiran Aditham on Jul. 7, 2011 - 9:08 AM There’s a changing of the guards up in Canada as Monica Ruffo will take over for Geoffrey Roche as CEO of Lowe Roche, the agency that the latter founded back in 1991 which was eventually acquired by Lowe in 1996. It appears ...
Video Deutsch CEO Linda Sawyer: Winning Volkswagen is ‘Just a Dream’ By Kiran Aditham on Sep. 29, 2010 - 12:55 PM Alas, our time with Linda Sawyer has come to an end. Here is the third and final installment from our Media Beat interview with the Deutsch CEO, who talks about winning the VW account, the effect of the Deutsch/Lowe merger, the de ...
Video Deutsch CEO Linda Sawyer: Advertising is an ‘Industry Under Siege’ By Kiran Aditham on Sep. 28, 2010 - 12:42 PM Deutsch CEO Linda Sawyer is back in part deux of her Media Beat discussion with Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby. Here, the chief exec weighs in on the ad industry’s recovery, successful clients and the potential of a major ...
Video Deutsch CEO Linda Sawyer on Getting There and Her Leadership Style By Kiran Aditham on Sep. 27, 2010 - 2:33 PM We present to you another edition of Media Beat, Mediabistro’s weekly interview series with high-profile media professionals. Seeing as it’s Advertising Week and all, what better time than to roll out this three-part c ...