Global interactive marketing agency BGT Partners was recently named a 2010 Advertising Age ’Best Place to Work’ in marketing and media. The firm was chosen out of thousands of entrants and is the only company selected with a headquarters in Florida, the agency said in a press release. “After 14 years of passion and dedication to our clients [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 30, 2010
Marty Cooke, a highly regarded individual in the creative and marketing worlds, is joining Global marketing agency RAPP as U.S. Chief Creative Officer. According to the August 30th press release at PR Newswire, Bob Horvath, Global CEO of RAPP was quoted as saying: “Great creative thinking is the final piece of the puzzle in our [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 29, 2010
MSNBC has selected Minneapolis ad agency Mono as its agency of record in marketing and advertising efforts, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Mono, which was recently named the small agency of the year by Advertising Age, has previous experience working with television organizations. The agency previously created the “Characters Welcome” brand five years ago that [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
Most of BBDO Detroit’s remaining 450 employees will take a mandatory two-week unpaid furlough this month. The ad agency is characterizing the time off as both a “furlough” and an “unpaid vacation.” Twenty-five employees will continue to work, to support BBDO North America accounts; they will also be furloughed for a week. Many of those [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 11, 2009
Manhattan-based BBDO says it never employed terror attack suspect James W. von Brunn, despite the man’s claims he worked for the ad agency as a copywriter and assistant art director. Von Brunn opened fire in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC yesterday, killing a security guard. He was charged in federal court [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 29, 2009
According to information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the US Department of Labor, the nation’s advertising agencies have lost 24,100 jobs since the recession began last year. Advertising Age used the government numbers to determine that, factoring in all advertising related media jobs, the total job loss for the period is 65,100. According [...]
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