Mattel Narrows Short List In Review for Third Agency

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EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. – Mattel has reportedly narrowed the list of contenders in its search for a third agency-of-record to four shops: Chiat/Day, Venice, Calif.; DDB Needham, DMB&B and McCann-Erickson, all L.A.
Each agency reportedly received a strategic and creative assignment for a specific product line. It’s not known if each agency was given a different assignment and if the work involves the actual products that would eventually be awarded to the winning shop. Mattel has declined to discuss the assignment for which the agencies are competing.
Mattel has said the assignment given to the winning agency could include businesses currently at Ogilvy & Mather and Foote, Cone & Belding, in L.A.,



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