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During last week's International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, post execs examined emerging data and digital intermediate (DI) processes, while broadcasters battled over shifting...

For the 10th time in the past 11 months, there's been an upturn in on-location spot shoot days in Los Angeles, as compared to counterpart months from the previous year. August 2004 registered 602...

Last week's installment of this column tackled negative political spots and the black eye they cast on the advertising industry. I hadn't planned a follow-up to that piece, but a recent...

My partner, Joe Barone, calls radio the redheaded stepchild of advertising. Now, I never understood that because there are no redheads on radio, but after 15 years of writing and producing radio...

Venice, Calif.-based creative agency, mOcean has added creative directors Earl Jenshus and Jesùs Rodriguez to the company's design and production teams. Jenshus's career in design and production...

Cody Cluff, former president of the Entertainment Industry Development Corp. (EIDC), which oversees the joint Los Angeles City/County Film Office, was sentenced to three years of probation on...

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Zona Design, New York, created an ID for Divine HD, a service of Rainbow Media Holdings. Divine HD features a mix of movies and programming of interest to gay and...

NEW YORK—German director Matthias Zentner—whose Häagen Dazs campaign for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, made a major splash stateside earlier this year—has signed with New York...

LONDON—Large, the London production house formed last September by the merger of Spectre and Stark Films, both in London, and headed up by award-winning directors Daniel Kleinman and Jeff Stark,...

Bicoastal Chelsea Pictures has signed independent reps Annie Bossingham and Brad Grubaugh of Boss Talent, Venice, Calif., to handle the West Coast….Colleen McHale has joined Zooma Zooma, New York...