View Post Op-Eds Requiem for Stuart Elliott By admin on Dec. 18, 2014 - 4:25 PM Pic via NYT reporter Stephanie Clifford This is a guest post by Tom Siebert, agency vet and former Adweek/Mediapost reporter. Fiends, Gossips, Backstabbers — lend me your eyes. I come to praise Stuart Elliott, not to bury him. ...
View Post People Stuart Elliott Takes the New York Times Buyout By Patrick Coffee on Dec. 3, 2014 - 12:00 PM Today in End of An Era news, agency PRs everywhere will no longer be pitching Stuart Elliott for coverage in The New York Times. As Elliott announced on his Facebook page this morning (and Capital New York reported), he has chosen ...
View Post Agencies New Pizza Hut Campaign Challenges Italians to Taste Sriracha By Patrick Coffee on Nov. 20, 2014 - 5:47 PM The new Pizza Hut campaign doesn’t include full credits from AOR Deutsch LA. But the spots, which earned coverage in both Adweek and The New York Times this week, mark a change in direction for the newly rebranded company. ...
View Post Agencies | Campaigns 72andSunny Really Wishes You Would All Just ‘F*ck Off’ By Patrick Coffee on Sep. 18, 2014 - 3:26 PM A question for the men in the audience: have you ever mentored a young person? The answer is almost certainly no, but Esquire wants to change that with the help of 72andSunny and its new “Mentoring Project.” In short, ...
View Post Agencies | Brands | Campaigns Doogie Howser (Almost) Drinks Heineken Light for W+K NY By Shawn Paul Wood on Jul. 17, 2014 - 1:45 PM From a kid in scrubs to a man with an angry inch, Neil Patrick Harris is quite possibly our leading example of a Renaissance Dude. The star may now add “drinking beer” to his illustrious resume along with acting, singi ...
View Post Ad Biz | Agencies J. Walter Thompson Company Is Your New JWT By Patrick Coffee on Apr. 14, 2014 - 2:03 PM The week’s biggest spoiler to date has nothing to do with “Game of Thrones” or “Mad Men.” Martin Sorrell of WPP dropped an extremely premature bomb during an “executive breakfast” hosted b ...
View Post Brands | Campaigns | Op-Eds | Sports Post-Super Bowl Op-Ed: Dear GoDaddy, Please Stop By Kiran Aditham on Feb. 5, 2013 - 2:45 PM We continue winding down our Super Bowl XLVII ad-related coverage with an emphatic plea from Harry Woods, partner/creative director at New York-based agency, Woods Witt Dealy & Sons, which has worked with the likes of CNBC, Su ...
Ad Biz Friday Odds and Ends By Kiran Aditham on Sep. 7, 2012 - 4:41 PM -Deutsch LA and director Noam Murro (with a little help from Johnny Cash) have teamed up yet again for VW, this time showing how a hungry dog is no match for the Jetta’s keyless access (above). -Lionsgate has launched a medi ...
Ad Biz Tuesday Odds and Ends By Kiran Aditham on Jul. 3, 2012 - 4:03 PM -Boulder-based TDA and Epoch Films director Greg Bell have teamed up for new FirstBank work (above). -San Francisco shop Eleven is teasing a stunt they’re launching next week for Sun Valley Tourism. link -Shocking eMarketer ...
Agencies | Brands GoDaddy Opts for Actual Agency Help By Kiran Aditham on Jun. 13, 2012 - 10:00 AM In case you didn’t get the news, after seven years of creating somewhat naughty, sometimes controversial and almost always silly advertising in-house, GoDaddy is heading in a new direction. As a result, the domain naming reg ...
