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ZenithOptimedia Frightens the Children With Forecast of Adspend Declines
BNET
- 2009-04-17
ZenithOptimedia has reduced its ad spend forecast for 2009. In December it said the year would see a 0.2 percent decline, per Adweek, but now it's calling for a 7 percent decline. by Jim Edwards
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...
Omnicom, in Cash Crunch, to Delay Payments to U.S. TV Producers
BNET
- 2009-03-12
Omnicom is requiring that U.S. commercial producers wait until clients pay its agencies before they pay the producers' bills. The news, reported by Adweek, confirms that Omnicom is doing everything it can to slow down outgoing cash payments as clients slow down their payments to agencies. BNET...
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 Garfinkel Hits Back at Critics; Defends His Moustache
BNET
- 2009-02-12
Former DDB chief creative officer Lee Garfinkel has penned a column for Adweek addressing his detractors. Garfinkel was the subject of more than 250 comments on a run-of-the-mill news story that noted he was to be replaced as DDB's top creative exec by BBDO's Eric Silver. Most...
Everybody Hates DDB's Lee Garfinkel
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...
Cliff Freeman in Freefall? Client Gains Don't Seem Big Enough to Cover Lost Revenue
BNET
- 2009-02-05
This is the year that Cliff Freeman & Partners has to pull it out of the fire. When the agency announced a few days ago that it had won the Saudi Arabian Airlines account, the only reasonable reaction was: How has this venerable shop sunk so low? ...
Publicis Closes Droga5's Honeyshed -- and Nobody Is Surprised
BNET
- 2009-02-02
Publicis is to shutter Honeyshed, its online shopping experiment via agency Droga5, Adweek reports. Ten employees are to be laid off. The move was completely predictable, as everyone who watched Honeyshed -- an online video site that hoped to make home-shopping trendy and ironic --...
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| Name (plus bio) | Position |
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| Barbara Lippert | Advertising Critic |
| John Follis | Columnist |
| Robert L Lindstrom | Photographer |
| Sharon Benoit | Managing Editor |
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
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| Adweek | Advertising Critic | Current |
| Nielsen Podcasts | 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 | Cco of Follis Llc and Host of the Marketing Show | Current |
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| Aief | Executive Director | Former |
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