by thelaegotist / June 14, 2018 / VCU Brandcenter, one of the most respected graduate advertising programs in the country and among the industry, has named award-winning creative veteran, has named award-winning creative veteran, Vann Graves, as its new Executive Director. Currently Chief Creative Officer at JWT Atlanta, Graves is set to begin his new role on August 10th, taking him back to his native Richmond. He follows an est[Read More]
by thelaegotist / May 24, 2018 / Fitzco, a full-service creative agency, has partnered pro-bono with Red Nose Day to create an interactive, social media campaign to promote the fourth annual Red Nose Day campaign, the agency said.
Red Nose Day was launched in the US in 2015 dedicated to ending child poverty, one nose at a time. Fitzco’s “Nose to Nose” campaign is the latest tool to help Red Nose Day achieve its awareness a[Read More]
by thelaegotist / May 17, 2018 / The VCU Brandcenter is one of the leading advertising graduate programs in the country — an alma mater to some of the most recognized and respected names in the industry, a go-to for top recruiters, and a hotbed for driven young talent seeking both careers and entrepreneurial ventures in and around the marketing, advertising, tech and creative arenas. Since launching its graduate program over 20[Read More]
by thelaegotist / May 14, 2018 /
Members of the 2018 North American Grand Effie Jury weighed in on how their companies are building and maintaining an effectiveness culture.
The 2018 Grand Effie Jury will select the North American Effie’s “best in show,” hours before the May 31 gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. Since 1968, the Effie Awards have honored marketing effectiveness and are presented [Read More]
by kcarterhuey / February 8, 2018 / The Egotist asked Indie Agencies from across the US to break down the best Super Bowl ads by category. Our final installment covers the Automotive and Financial Services categories. Thank you to the agency strategists and creatives who did their homework during Super Bowl parties and reported back to us. To read more about what moved our critics in the CPG category, check out our first story in[Read More]
by kcarterhuey / February 7, 2018 / Tide Wins the Beer Wars
Alec Beckett, Creative Director at Nail Communications in Providence, RI noted that with no hard selling or product features and benefits to flog (in theory) beer advertising has the highest entertainment potential. He felt that this year was a big disappointment for the beer category:
“Our crowd was excited to see the Bud Light battle, but was disappointed that the firs[Read More]
by / February 7, 2018 / [img_assist|nid=22742|title=|desc=|link=none|align=none|width=480|height=419] Ron Bess, CEO of Merge
MERGE, a unified agency with an uncommon combination of capabilities in strategy, creativity and technology, is launching today in three cities—Chicago, Boston and Atlanta, CEO Ron Bess has announced.
All told, five marketing agencies compose MERGE:
• HY Connect, Chicago
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by kcarterhuey / February 6, 2018 / The Egotist asked indie agencies across the US to work during the Super Bowl and pick the best Super Bowl ads by category. Here’s the first in the series of what agencies from Austin to Boston and St. Louis to San Francisco had to say about the CPG ads that worked in this year’s Super Bowl.
Andy Grayson, Director of Strategy for Richmond-based creative agency, Arts& Letters Creative Co. summ[Read More]
