Ad Council
The Ad Council has elected 27 new members to its board of directors during its spring meeting held virtually last Thursday (4/22). The organization’s board is chaired by Linda Yaccarino, chairman, global advertising and partnerships, NBCUniversal. Vice chairs include Jacki Kelley, CEO, Dentsu...
Linda Yaccarino, chairman, Global Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal, has been named chair of the Ad Council’s Board of Directors. She succeeds David Fischer, chief revenue officer of Facebook, and will serve in the role until June 30, 2022.
Since the organization’s founding, the...
The Ad Council, the venerable non-profit organization dedicated to driving social change, unveiled its most significant rebrand in its 75-year history. This includes an evolution in how it works with corporate brands to address the country’s most pressing social issues, an expansion of its...
Ad Council’s “Love Has No Labels”--from agency R/GA and directed by Danielle Levitt of Persuade and Influence which produced the job along with Mindride--won the primetime commercial Emmy Award during the first leg of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony on Saturday (9/10) at LA Live’s...
The best of SHOOT's "The Best Work You May Never See" gallery in 2014 has a decidedly public service bent. Four of the top five picks are of a PSA variety, the lone exception being a tongue-in-cheek ad agency self -promotional video.
Our quarterly VFX/Animation Top Ten Track contains a body of work that includes a sobering perspective on heart disease in women, a heartfelt Xmas message of peace dating back to World War I history, a comical pursuit of TV viewing at a snail's pace, a holiday stop-motion animation message from...
Director Christian Bevilacqua of Anonymous Content teamed with visual effects house MPC New York on this Ad Council/American Heart Association PSA which shows how women have progressed over the years, breaking through one figurative glass ceiling after another--...
Laura Desmond, global CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group, has been named chair of the board of directors of the Advertising Council. She succeeds Debra L. Lee, chairman and CEO of BET Networks. David Kenny, CEO of The Weather Company, has been announced as vice chair of media, joining vice chair of...