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Friday, Dec. 6, 2002
Levi's "Odyssey" Tops Monitor Spot Honors
Although the Association of Imaging Technology and Sound (ITS) met its demise nearly a year-and-a-half ago (SHOOT, 8/24/01, p. 1), the organization's annual competition, the International Monitor Awards, continues. Helping the awards reach their 23rd year was Tracy Murley, former director of...
Friday, Dec. 6, 2002
Asbury Short Film Show Long On Agency Exposure
Some 500 ad agency creatives, producers and members of the general public turned out for the 23rd Asbury Short Film Show, held Nov. 21, at The New School's Tishman Auditorium in Manhattan. Director Bob Giraldi, of bicoastal Giraldi Suarez Productions, hosted the show, which has the running theme, "...
Friday, Dec. 6, 2002
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design and Stock Footage Briefs
SHORT CUTS Guava , New York, provided visual effects supervision and execution for Dunkin' Donuts' latest campaign via Hill, Holliday, Boston. Guava collaborated with tabletop director Irv Blitz of bicoastal HSI Productions to create effects to showcase the chain's products. In "Belt," cinnamon...
Friday, Dec. 6, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: AGENCY OF THE YEAR_ Drink Up
It's clear that Pepsi occupies a special place on BBDO New York's impressive roster of clients—the account has been with the agency since 1960, which is a remarkably long time in the ever-changing world of advertising. For BBDO, the account presents different challenges than it did four decades ago...
Friday, Dec. 6, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: AGENCY OF THE YEAR_ Shipping News
When shipping giant Federal Express opened for business on April 17, 1973, it delivered 186 packages to 25 cities in one day. And while the company did not turn a profit until '75, FedEx promptly started advertising in '74 on a budget of $150,000. Its selling point: a revolutionary new concept in...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
EIDC's Cluff Refuses To Step Down
LOS ANGELES—Cody Cluff, president of the Entertainment Industry Development Corporation (EIDC), has decided to stay on the job, defying the EIDC executive committee, which during a closed-door meeting last Friday (11/22) voted by an 8-2 margin to put him on a paid leave of absence. The EIDC is the...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: POSTPRODUCTION_ Expansion Plans
Many postproduction companies have recently been busy launching and expanding their own visual effects divisions. In May, Nice Shoes, New York, launched Guava, a visual effects firm; a year earlier Nice Shoes started its own broadcast design division, Freestyle Collective. Late last year, editorial...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
For The Record
In "Ad Agency Heads of Prodn Find Forum, Gain Insights" (11/1, p. 1), a comment was incorrectly attributed to Texas East, senior partner/co-director of broadcast production for Ogilvy & Mather, New York, that interactive production had become part of his department at the agency. In fact,...
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
DiBona, Bornstein & Random (DB&R) , Boston, has upped creative director David Random to executive creative director. Also, Rod Smith , formerly a senior VP/creative director at Arnold Worldwide, Boston, has joined DB&R as creative director.
Friday, Nov. 29, 2002
Holding Company Liberty Livewire Renamed Ascent Media Group
Liberty Livewire, the Santa Monica-based international holding company—which provides video and audio postproduction, media management and distribution services to the advertising, feature film and television industries in North America, Europe and Asia—has changed its corporate moniker to Ascent...