Them thar machines are taking over the world, gadgets that control our life and, as this new StubHub film from Goodby Silverstein & Partners surmises, maybe our deaths. It’s a prevailing anxiety that’s starting to appear in ads. This is ...
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My thanks to Adscammer George Parker (another man who never sleeps) for pointing me in the direction of this self-produced tribute to what seems to be the world’s most venerable agency – Goodby Silverstein & Partners. And I thought they’d ...
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Harris Diamond – who’s he? The new chairman and chief executive of McCann Worldgroup, replacing Nick Brien as of last night – that’s who. Brien’s position has long since looked untenable – to all, that is, except senior Interpublic management. ...
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General Motors’ Chevrolet is reviewing its creative account at recently-appointed Goodby Silverstein & Partners and it’s added insult to injury by choosing to ‘crowd source’ its 2012 Super Bowl campaign, inviting independent film makers around the world to submit their ...
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Publicis Groupe may be waiting anxiously to find out if it’s about to lose a huge slice of General Motors’ $3bn media account but, if it is, it’s just received a hefty slice of compensation with the award of wireless ...
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It’s still all go at General Motors and now global CMO Joel Ewanick (pictured), who doesn’t hang around, is adding to his workload by pitching the global creative account for its biggest brand, Chevrolet. GM’s $3bn global media account is ...
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Chevrolet agency Goodby, Silverstein and Partners has taken a fair amount of stick for its work for General Motors’ Chevrolet (as has GM CMO Joel Ewanick) so it must have been looking forward to celebrating Chevy’s 100th anniversary with some ...
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Creativity is king at the moment and Publicis Worldwide, the world’s number three agency network, has been a bit short of it recently. So the Publicis Groupe-owned giant has lured Belgian Eric Vervroegen from Omnicom’s Goodby Silverstein & Partners in ...
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Actually Commonwealth Bank’s ‘dare to be different’ campaign is quite funny but its depiction of a fictional ad agency producing a stream of stupid ideas for the bank seems to have finally got on the nerves of too many Australians. ...
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