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Nielsen Won't Deny That Brandweek, Mediaweek May Be Closed
BNET
- 2009-03-30
The New York Post and MediaPost both reported a "rumor" that Brandweek and Mediaweek could be closed and wrapped into Adweek see here and here. Such a move would be a significant climbdown for Nielsen Business Media. Nielsen spokesman Gary Holmes declined to deny the rumor. He said: We're...
Advertising Roundup: Omnicom Downgraded; Valassis Pulls Out of Plain-Dealer; Walmart Adds Riney; More ...
BNET
- 2009-02-13
S&P downgrades Omnicom's credit -- Standard & Poor's today placed its long-term ratings for Omnicom Group, including the 'A-' corporate credit rating, on "CreditWatch with negative implications." [Source: Adweek] Valassis ends RedPlum deal with Plain Dealer -- last weekend, Joe Daugirdas, also known as "The Coupon Guy,"...
DDB's Lee Garfinkel Assailed by Critics
BNET
- 2009-02-09
Lee Garfinkel, DDB's chief creative officer, has inspired a comments thread on Adweek.com that has reached 253 items, a majority of them dedicated to celebrating his apparently imminent departure from the agency. (DDB is in talks with BBDO's Eric Silver to take over the job.) While Garfinkel...
Advertising Roundup: WPP Acquires 2 Shops; Absolut on TV; Schulman Leaves Saatchi; More
BNET
- 2009-02-09
WPP buys interactive shop in Italy -- WPP wholly owned global media investment management arm, GroupM is acquiring a 90-per cent stake in H-art Srl, a full service interactive agency in Italy. [Source: Domain-B] WPP buys stake in Vietnam's Smart Media -- Vietnam's Smart Media Joint Stock...
Advertising Roundup: Silver to DDB?; DraftFCB Executive Reorg; WPP Buys Store Firm; Avrett Gains Purina; More ...
BNET
- 2009-02-06
BBDO's Silver set to replace DDB's Garfinkel -- BBDO New York executive creative director Eric Silver has resigned and is in advanced negotiations to take the top creative post at DDB in New York, sources said. Lee Garfinkel, the office's chairman and chief creative officer since 2003, could not be...
Advertising Roundup: Omnicom's Debt Picture; Client Quits During Pitch; TBWA Names Infiniti Chief; Danone Taps Y&R; More ...
BNET
- 2008-12-17
Omnicom debt picture is mixed -- It has a lot of debt due, but not immediately, and will probably be OK. [Source: WSJ] TBWA names Infiniti chief -- TBWA has named the CEO of its Manchester office in the U.K. to steer management of its global Infiniti...
Advertising Roundup: Management Churn at Omnicom Media, TBWA; Maxus Enters U.K.; Publicis Wins EasyJet
BNET
- 2008-12-11
Publicis Modem gets EasyJet; Page Thompson now CEO of Omnicom Media North America; Management Churn at TBWA Worldwide; Remnants of Bozell name dwindle further by Jim Edwards
Jim Edwards Takes the Helm of BNET's Ad Blog
BNET
- 2008-10-27
BNET Pharma blogger Jim Edwards dons a new hat today as he takes on the additional responsibility of shepherding the BNET Advertising blog. As managing editor at Adweek in the late 1990s, Edwards covered the Madison Ave. agencies and their up-and-coming digital rivals, and has continued to write for both...
Rodale's Women's Health, Best Life and Bicycling Earn Spots on Adweek Magazines' Prestigious Annual "10 under 50" Hot List, Winning Praise for Reaching Key Audiences, as Well as Strong Advertising and Circulation Performances
- 2008-03-31
David Zinczenko, Editor-in-Chief of Men's Health and Editorial Director of Best Life, Garners Prestigious Editor of the Year Award -- In Top 10 Titles with Less Than $50MM in Annual Ad Revenues, Women's Health ranked No. 1, Best Life No. 2 and Bicycling No. 10 -- NEW YORK...
Hot Properties: AdweekMedia Unveils 3rd Annual Digital Hot List
- 2007-09-09
Facebook Jumps to #1 NEW YORK -- Leapfrogging into the number one spot, red hot Facebook earned top honors from AdweekMedia by demonstrating explosive growth over the last year. MySpace, still the largest social networking site with 59.7 million uniques (#2), video sharing phenom YouTube (#3), and celebrity chronicler...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Greg Farrar | President |
| David Loechner | Senior Vice President, Retail |
| Derek Irwin | Senior Vice President, Finance |
| Gerry Byrne | Senior Vice President, Entertainment |
| Joe Randall | Senior Vice President, Building & Design |
| Linda McCutcheon | Senior Vice President, Online |
| Mark Hosbein | Senior Vice President, Marketing |
| Mary Kay Sustek | Senior Vice President, Central Services |
| Michael Alicea | Senior Vice President, Human Resources |
| Sabrina R. Crow | Senior Vice President |
| Howard Appelbaum | Vice President, Licensing |
| Jennifer Grego | Vice President, Manufacturing & Distribution |
| Joanne Wheatley | Vice President, Audience Marketing |
| Geri Fitzgerald | Publisher |
| Thomas P. Woerner | Publisher |
| Adeline Cippoletti | Director of Planning and Operations |
| Akira F. Sugihara | Group Financial Director |
| Alison Fahey | Publisher, Editorial Director |
| Andy Hartnett | New Business Development Director |
| Anne Torpey | Creative Services Director |
| Elise Echevarrieta | Production Director |
| Elizabeth Irving | Eastern Sales Director |
| Eric Scott | Western Regional Sales Director |
| Michael Nass | Associate Director |
| Mitch Tebo | Directories, Publishing Director |
| Patricia Kelly | Marketing Director |
| Ron Goodman | Managing Art Director |
| Stacy Graham | Group Director |
| Tina Balderas | Regional Sales Director |
| Barbara Riehl | Account Manager |
| Betty Yuan | Manager |
| Daniel McNamee | Account Manager |
| Gene Williams | Assistant Classified Production Manager |
| Jennifer Quinones | Marketing Events Manager |
| Jon Girson | Account Manager |
| Barbara Lippert | Advertising Critic |
| Brian Erdman | |
| Catherine Lewis | |
| Catherine Marchese | Marketing Coordinator |
| Eileen Cotto | Production Coordinator |
| Jennifer Rivera | Sales Assistant |
| John Follis | Columnist |
| Robert L Lindstrom | Photographer |
| Brian Morrissey | Digital Editor |
| David Gianatasio | Web Editor |
| Eleftheria Parpis | Creative Editor |
| Jim English | Research Editor |
| Libby Estell | Managing Editor |
| Manuela Oprea | Photo Editor |
| Mike Chapman | Editor |
| Mike Yuhas | Desk Editor |
| Roberta Bernstein | Features Editor |
| Sharon Benoit | Managing Editor |
| Steve McClellan | Media Editor |
| Tim Nudd | Senior Editor |
| Tony Case | Special Reports Editor |
| Mary Barnes | Director |
| Rob Cukierman | Director |
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| Diane Driscoll | Board of Directors |
| Sue Tremblay | Board of Directors |
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| Adweek | President | Current |
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| Adweek | Senior Vice President, Retail | Current |
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| Adweek | Senior Vice President, Finance | Current |
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| Adweek | Senior Vice President, Entertainment | Current |
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| Adweek | Senior Vice President, Building & Design | Current |
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| Adweek | Senior Vice President, Online | Current |
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| Adweek | Senior Vice President, Marketing | Current |
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| Adweek | Vice President, Licensing | Current |
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| Adweek | Vice President, Manufacturing & Distribution | Current |
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| Adweek | Vice President, Audience Marketing | Current |
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| Adweek | Publisher, Editorial Director | Current |
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| Adweek | New Business Development Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Creative Services Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Production Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Eastern Sales Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Western Regional Sales Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Associate Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Directories, Publishing Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Marketing Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Managing Art Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Group Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Regional Sales Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Account Manager | Current |
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| Adweek | Manager | Current |
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| Adweek | Account Manager | Current |
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| Adweek | Assistant Classified Production Manager | Current |
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| Adweek | Marketing Events Manager | Current |
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| Adweek | Account Manager | Current |
Barbara Lippert is the award-winning advertising critic for Adweek. For nearly twenty years, she has written a weekly ad critique, reviewing a campaign much as a movie or book critic would, looking at it through the prism of pop culture, and from a human rather than agency or client perspective. Readers have called her work "insightful," 'funny" and "'@@**@*@&!!!!"' A much sought-after voice of advertising analysis for both the industry and the media, Lippert is a frequent TV guest, and has been the advertising contributor the CBS "Early Show'' and has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Oprah, 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper's 360, and Charlie Rose, among others
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Adweek | Advertising Critic | Current |
| Nielsen Podcasts | Current |
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| Adweek | Current |
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| The Rosen Group. Prior | Account Executive | Current |
| Adweek | Current | |
| The Rosen Group Inc. | Former | |
| Lafayette College | Bachelor of Arts Degree In English | Former |
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| Adweek | Marketing Coordinator | Current |
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| Adweek | Production Coordinator | Current |
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| Adweek | Sales Assistant | Current |
Before Follis LLC, John was with several top US agencies including DDB, K&B, and his own, Follis DeVito Verdi, one of Madison Avenue's most award-winning agencies. John is a contributing columnist for ADWEEK and author of "How to Attract and Excite Your Prospects". John has also been an adjunct professor at Parsons, F.I.T. and SVA in New York City. Other Follis credits include a White House honor for his agency's anti child abuse campaign. He is a requested speaker, author of The Follis Marketing Report blog, and the creator and host of The Marketing Show podcast. A business owner since 1986, John is President of Follis, LLC which offers Marketing Therapy for businesses with limited budgets. Samples, articles, and case studies can be viewed on follisinc.com
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| Follis, LLC | President | Current |
| Follis, LLC | Cco of Follis Llc and Host of the Marketing Show | Current |
| Adweek | Columnist | Current |
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| Sphericity Inc | Current | |
| Fortune | Photographer | Current |
| Forbes, Inc. | Photographer | Current |
| Fortune | Editor | Current |
| Adweek | Editor | Current |
| Forbes, Inc. | Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Digital Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Web Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Creative Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Research Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Managing Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Photo Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Desk Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Features Editor | Current |
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| Broadcast Ink Communications | President, CEO | Current |
| Adweek | Managing Editor | Current |
| Stewart Title Co | Current | |
| Salesian Boys & Girls Club | Current | |
| The James G. Elliott Company | Current | |
| The Frozfruit Company | Current | |
| Aief | Executive Director | Former |
| Copley News Service | Business Columnist | Former |
| Golden West Telecommunications | Former | |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Former | |
| Advertising Club of Los Angeles | Member | Former |
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| Adweek | Media Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Senior Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Special Reports Editor | Current |
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| Adweek | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Adweek | Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Director | Current |
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| Adweek | Board of Directors | Current |
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