-Creative directors Phil Henson of Team One and Keith Manning of Shark/Ninja have launched a side project called HappyBombs that produces socially conscious clothing.
-A bunch of agency execs talked first jobs with Digiday. John Patroulis of BBH worked at a Little Caesar’s and Gary Vaynerchuk…well, he managed to make $2000 every weekend selling his baseball cards at local shows. You’re surprised??
-Chief creative officer Vann Graves of FL+G isn’t too impressed by the industry’s diversity efforts to date.
-HZDG of Rockville, MD was named AOR for The Maryland Marketing Partnership. We hear that more than 20 D.C.-area shops were involved.
-Carmichael Lynch won a pitch for the National Rugby Football League, which is this country’s first pro rugby union.
-Advantage Solutions, or “North America’s leading provider of sales and marketing solutions,” acquired Chicago-based seamless marketing agency Upshot. The shop employs 170.
–Maureen Enright has been promoted to director of the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), “a voluntary industry program to help combat childhood obesity” with the help of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. We predict that kids will somehow continue to eat crap.
-New York post-production house Sixteen19 celebrated its anniversary with a new 4K theater. Is that like a 4G LTE network?
-McDonald’s is expanding its efforts to replace frozen beef with fresh. Never Forget Chipotle!