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Enfatico announced three new hires to the agency's digital leadership team.
— David Shulman is Enfatico's new chief digital officer, based in New York. ...
Pepsi's branding duties in the US have been given to TBWA/Chiat/Day LA, according to a release provided by PepsiCo. The company has removed ...
Note to Doritos: Please don't make attractive young women lick gross Doritos stuff off old guys' fingers in future commercials.
A new Web site for ...
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Our last party went so well that we've decided to host another. But this time, it will be held at super-cool drinkery, "The Hill" (not to be confused with, "The ...
Agency/Location: Substance/Portland, Oregon
Motto: "Always do better."
Founded: 2007 by Stephen Landau and David Lowe-Rogstad, two creative directors who were fed up with dinosaur agencies in a digital ...
Grey Group satellite Grey West, SF announced recently that it acquired the regional BMW business, consolidating the automaker's advertising into the WPP shop. It was previously divided among four agencies.
According to a Grey ...
To the average bear, turning 30 probably seems daunting. It's the end of youth; time to turn in the bong and cheap beer and replace them with ...
To the naked eye, Cayman Went is just like any other movie. It fits into a genre, dramedy, and takes the viewer for a short ride through a group ...
I know that you have all been waiting with bated to breath to see who has won our Honeyshed competition. Without further ado, let us now introduce our celebrity judge for this event, ...
Like you, we tend to leave the big stuff we need to do for Fridays. Meetings, scripts, feature stories and punching douche-bags in the kissa are usually left to the last day of the ...
Beans2Beans in LA created the spot you can see after the jump. It starts out with a shot of a beautiful, sun drenched field. A man's voice can be heard, singing (in Spanish, but ...
We heart Illegal Advertising.
More: "Anonymous Comments To Be Made Illegal"
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Subliminal messaging is our favorite kind of communication. There's nothing like seeing a beer and thinking about two girls ...
God knows if this code is going to work since the copy button gave me trouble. And yes, I know that we have a competition going on for reviews of Honeyshed, so I'll ...
Now that GM has asked everyone and their mother to contact lawmakers and urge them to support a federal bailout for the failing automaker, we thought ...
Yet another week has passed, and likewise another TWIA has appeared from thin air. Thanks for sticking with us — last week more than 17,000 of you watched the video, which is beyond awesome ...
Gawker's Hamilton Nolan wrote today about an ad campaign slated to run in Washington D.C. which asks, "why believe in a god?" then states, "just be good ...
- IDEO CEO Tim Brown talks ideas, and the organizations that stifle them. (link)
- Logo design - the good, bad and the genius. (link)
- BMW has identified five agencies to compete ...
"Wal-Mart Stores is talking to agencies about creative work for its fledgling Marketside convenience and fresh-foods stores, inviting as many as seven agencies on Friday to discuss the account, which is separate ...
The dark side of advertising... man, it's brutal. To add to our list of Diabolical Advertising Deeds check out Glen Brian Rust. The former president of the Fuse Advertising ...
A source inside JWT informed AgencySpy that earlier today, the agency appointed Rosemarie Ryan and Ty Montague president and co-president/CCO of JWT North ...
So we got some reader vitriol today by way of a comment on our Honeyshed competition page.
People send us nasty hate mail all the time. It totally ...
Our Honeyshed competition has been pushed off the main page, so here's the repost for those who missed it.
Droga5's Honeyshed relaunched the other day. In honor of this ...
AgencySpy has learned that former PHDiQ Director of Interactive Amy Auerbach left the agency to join up with Initiative, said a source. Initiative’s US ...
Addendum: Feel free to comment on accounts you think should be up for a review in the comments section. We'll pull the best and make them their own posts. Or, email us at agencyspy ...
Meet Faris Yakob
Agency: EVP, chief technology strategist at McCann.
Recent Work: Digital ninja type stuff at Naked.
Little Known Fact: He used to be a writer for Maxim ...
Right now, it's kind of rough in Boston. Thankfully, digital agency Fort Franklin is hiring. Right now. Check out the listings below:
Interactive Designer:
Must have strong design skills and love the internet more ...
Thirty-eight year GSD&M veteran and CEO Roy Spence is leading the $750 million Home Depot pitch. His experience with Wal-Mart and the fact that he's basically ...
Intel Corp announced Wednesday that it expects lower sales than its original forecast citing "significantly weaker than expected demand in all geographies and market segments." They also ...
AgencySpy has learned that MRM Worldwide has won the Crown Royal account, which had been with either Grey or G2. MRM will handle the client's digital business, ...
"Advertising in the U.S. may not recover until 2010 if businesses wait for the economy to bounce back before boosting marketing spending, analysts at Citigroup Inc. said. Ad spending across all media, including print, ...
Chicago's Mayor, Richard M. Daley, has told reporters that both city and private sector workers should get ready for a clusterfuck.
The Mayor says that chief executive ...
If you bought media during a handful of shows this year, you're a sucker. The list of canceled shows has been trickling in. So far, you can bet that:
- ...
First Droga5, now W+K will take home $150M account. This time it's Nokia giving up the cash. You're not surprised right? W+K London has been doing some stellar work for the ...
With over 300 million users, YouTube is still not turning a profit and investors are getting ants in their pants. Someone has to do something. So, yesterday, Google announced that it would ...
Legendary ad man Jerry Della Femina has given women in the business their due this morning. His piece in Forbes begins with his memory of a ...
Director Todd Solondz is working on a follow-up to his film, "Happiness." It will star Allison Janney, Charlotte Rampling, and Paris Hilton. Yes. Hell has ...
Our rumormill is churning with more bad news:
"Layoffs at icrossing today - across all their offices."
"Campbell-Ewald to lay off 100+ starting tomorrow. Affected-Chevrolet Account and Creative."
Damn it. ...
It's the end of the day. That's generally when all the wonky tips come through. Here's a prime example of an EOD tip from the anonymous box: "What agencies ...
From our very cool, telephone tip line: Puma has tapped Droga5 as AOR for its $100 million global account. That explains why Puma has a myriad of products for ...
Addendum: You get all the details here or here.
From our very cool, telephone tip line: Puma has tapped Droga5 as AOR for its $100 million global account. ...
Droga5's Honeyshed, the home shopping network for the digital generation, has relaunched today. In honor of this much anticipated event, Agency Spy has decided to hold a contest.
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In the video above, Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired, predicts the next 5000 days of the web at the 2007 EG conference. Grab your lunch and listen up.
More: The ADC Gets ...
- American Apparel is getting sued by a former accountant who refused to cook the books. (link) I hate their ads. Still.
- Gmail users around the ...
Who is Rosser Reeves? Good question. Rosser was an American advertising executive and early pioneer of television advertising. He was the creative partner of
Ted Bates and what would be an agency with ...
In the video above, Vice President of advertising agency, EGC Group, Nicole Larrauri runs through why Wal-Mart is handling the economic bullshit like a champ. One aspect of that is the ...
Since I've been unemployed, I've become a devoted fan of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares. The British version is far better than the US, but meh - I like both. So, since Mad Men ...
"We think the environment sucks. It is not like we're doing something wrong. It is that, unfortunately, we do not have a whole lot of control over what cars ...
In the ad above, rock'n'rolla Ozzy Osbourne tries to order coffee, tell a cabby where he wants to go, and share his feelings with his therapist. But when his inaudible, mumbled words don't ...
The troubled economic situation has claimed yet another casualty. Steak n Shake, a diner-style restaurant chain located throughout the Midwestern and Southern United States, is in trouble. Shares have hit a 52-week low, ...
This morning, someone is handing out fake newspapers from July 2009. Headlines read: "Iraq War Ends" and "National Health Insurance Passes." The paper even includes fake ads. Ha. Some ...
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