Online Advertising May Reach $81.1 Billion by 2011

February 23rd, 2007

Let’s welcome the user revolution.

Piper Jaffray & Co. Internet Media and Marketing research team today published an in-depth, comprehensive research report titled, “The User Revolution,” discussing the new advertising ecosystem and the rise of the Internet as a mass medium. In the report, the team outlines its expectations that global online advertising revenue will reach $81.1 billion by 2011, representing a 21 percent compound-annual-growth-rate (2006-2011).

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Ian Richardson Passes; Grey Poupon Lives On

February 23rd, 2007

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Chicago PR Firms: Taylor Goes To Porter Novelli

February 22nd, 2007

Porter Novelli today announced the appointment of Wendi Taylor Nations to managing director of its Chicago office. Nations, who has more than 20 years of marketing communications experience, brings a diverse background to client work and successful track record for regional growth.

“As the public relations industry continues to evolve, gaining strength and credibility within the marketing communications mix, it is an exciting time to be leading the Chicago office of Porter Novelli,” said Nations. “We have a solid base of diverse clients that continue to grow with new and challenging needs. Our client-centered approach allows us to provide the best talent and expertise needed to help our clients reach their business goals.”

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DDB’s Dermody Goes to Competitor Burnett

February 22nd, 2007

Pat Dermody, a veteran of advertising agency DDB Chicago, has joined rival Leo Burnett and Arc North America to become executive vice president, director of retail. Dermody had been president of integrated marketing at DDB North America, based in the agency’s Chicago office. At DDB, Dermody led the multichannel retail businesses of clients Safeway, OfficeMax, Midas and LensCrafters.

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Noble Works on Midwest Airlines

February 16th, 2007

PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Midwest Airlines today announced it was launching a new advertising campaign, attracting new customers with its unique promise of award-winning service at competitive fares. The new campaign, with its theme of “Simply the best care in the air,” begins February 16.

“Midwest’s growth plans for 2007 create great opportunities to introduce new customers to the airline,” said James J. Reichart, the airline’s director of advertising and brand. “Our new advertising uses iconic images familiar to our current flyers, like our leather seats and our baked-onboard cookies, and packages them in a clean, fresh way that will have consistent impact across all media. This is especially important on the Internet, where more frequent travelers are getting their daily news and information.”

According to Reichart, the campaign includes television and advertising in the airline’s hub markets of Milwaukee and Kansas City, plus radio, outdoor, newspaper and four-color magazine in these and other select markets. Web banner advertising will appear locally, regionally and nationally, including sites like usatoday.com and weather.com. Creative work was done by Noble Chicago, the airline’s general agency. Total advertising spending was not disclosed. Sample ads can be viewed at http://www.midwestbrandidentity.com/newads/.

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Superbowl Ads: Get Your Fill

February 5th, 2007

While I was persoanlly less than impressed with the majority of Superbowl advertising, go to CBS Sportsline here for Superbowl ads, posted after every quarter of the game. The iFilm has an excellent section built here, along with archives from previous years.

And then of course YouTube will have them here.

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Chicago Ad Agencies: SuperBowl Style

February 3rd, 2007

There will be three local chicago advertising agencies in the Superbowl this weekend. DDBWordWide Communications Group, Inc. (Anhueser-Busch & McDonalds), Draft FCB (Taco Bell) and Crammer-Krasselt (CareerBuilder.com). Log on to AdvertiseChicagoland.com during the game and share your thoughts on how the commercials turned out!

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Sneak Preview of 2007 SuperBowl Advertising

February 2nd, 2007

Rohit Bhargava’s recent post “The 1007 Marketer’s Sneak Preview Guide to SuperBowl Advertising” is definitely worth a look. Bhargava links to several user-generated Superbowl ads and offers some other sneak previews including the one with Kevin Federline. AdAge also has a full list of SuperBowl Ad Buyers that is worth a look.

Some of the videos:

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That’s Not Advertising; That’s Desperation

January 26th, 2007

I can’t even make myself blog about it:

Pregnant woman willing to trade personal advertising space for Super Bowl tickets

Imagine, your brand spread across …. excuse me… I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

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RSCG signs $150 mil. contract with Circuit City

January 26th, 2007

Euro RSCG/Chicago signed a contract to become the new agency of record for the $150-million Circuit City advertising account. The win is by far the largest since the agency (according to Lewis Lazare) “began the torturous and tortuous effort a couple of years ago to turn around a shop that was all but given up for a goner.”

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