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NEW YORK—Karen Kourtessis and David Cornman have joined Crew Cuts, New York, as partners/editors. The pair comes over from Post Factory, New York, where they served in the same capacities.

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LOS ANGELES—While the Summer Olympics proved a resounding success for NBC in terms of viewers and commercial-generated revenue, one advertiser didn't fare so well in light of a controversy over...

NEW YORK—New York-based Charlex has named Adam Isidore VP/executive producer. Isidore replaces former Charlex executive producer Amy Kindred, who departed the company this past spring and recently...

In the charming :60 "Picture" for the Volkswagen Touareg, out of Arnold Worldwide, Boston, director Malcolm Venville of bicoastal Anonymous Content introduces us to a couple as they meander up a...

New Faces

Mike Fetrow is joining Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis, as executive creative director. Additionally, copywriter Dave Keepper has been upped to group creative...

A Band Apart, Los Angeles, has signed Chicago-based independent reps Donna Daguanno and Mary Ida Bonadio for Midwest sales….Highway 61, New York, has gained representation via Rachel Finn and Mary...

Samantha Downes has come aboard Dallas-based Frames as its executive producer. She had been with Easy Way Editorial, Dallas, for the past nine years as its exec producer. Downes with work with...

You would think that a TV commercial for cell phone ring tones would show what a ring tone sounded like, and that a cell phone would be a necessary prop. Well, not necessarily, says Ari Merkin,...

TiVo surprised Wall Street after the closing bell on Aug. 26 by reporting a fiscal second-quarter loss that was significantly less than analysts had predicted, and saying the company ended the...

Greatguns: USA, Santa Monica, has signed directors Frank W. Ockenfels 3 and Lisbon Okafor for exclusive commercial representation. Okafor comes over from recently shuttered Coppos Films, while...