Tag Archives: Clint Eastwood

Not that you can get much grittier than the grand tours of Detroit that launched Wieden+Kennedy Portland’s epic series for Chrysler but selling cars these days means selling the gadgets and technology they’re stuffed with. And you don’t get Eminem ...

What was it Wellington used to say? Something about Napoleon’s hat on the battlefield being worth 50,000 men. I reckon Clint Eastwood, more revered than any living president past or present, could be worth considerably more than 50,000 votes in ...

Clint Eastwood produced a rather bizarre turn at the Republication convention (addressing an empty chair) and here he is again, fronting up for Mitt Romney in one of the many PAC-funded ads that the US bizarrely allows in elections (PACs ...

Wieden+Kennedy seems to be top of every client’s wish list at the moment: why, you might ask? Obviously they’re pretty good and have been for 30 years now. But for most of those 30 years they were a minority taste ...

When was there ever a CMO like General Motors’ Joel Ewanick? Hard on the heels of dumping Facebook from his advertising schedule in the week of its IPO, Ewanick (pictured) has announced that he’s skipping the 2013 Super Bowl too, ...

Chrysler is claiming that the four follow-up ads to Clint Eastwood’s celebrated ‘Halftime in America’ Super Bowl epic have resulted in soaring awareness levels and sales of its Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram models. Agency Wieden+Kennedy Portland is mining a ...

‘Half-time in America’ for Chrysler, featuring Clint Eastwood, won most of the plaudits at the Super Bowl and now Wieden+Kennedy Portland has girded its loins for the second half, continuing its one-agency crusade to revive both the Italian-owned auto brand ...

YouTube runs a poll called Ad Blitz after the Super Bowl game and M&M’s’ cutesy ‘Just my shell’ from BBDO New York was the winner. Here’s the top five. 1. M&M’s: Just My Shell 2. Chrysler: Halftime in America 3. ...

Actor Clint Eastwood is used to dodging bullets in his movies (he always wins in the end of course) and now he’s taking some heavy flak from Republicans in the US for alleged pro-Obama sentiments in his Chrysler Super Bowl ...