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In Chicago, San Francisco and New York, advertising's pioneering women strolled into Adweek's photo shoot in a celebratory mood. After all, many of them knew each other back in the [...]

1 October 1987 was the pivotal day in my advertising career and one of the most important in my life. I had got married a month earlier to Claire (we're [...]

Best campaign Nike 'Play' Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, Ore. Eschewing the use of superstar athletes and the attitude/arrogance that goes hand-in-hand, Nike's 'Play' campaign taps into themes that harken to [...]

Byline: Lance Traweek, Managing Editor A New York advertising agency will relocate this summer to New Orleans. PURE's client list includes DuPont, Georgia Pacific, recruiting and staffing service firm AeroTek [...]

'Our job is to resist the usual,' Ray Rubicam once said. And there was much that was unusual about the way he went about his work in advertising. He was [...]

George Gallup's name is so firmly linked with the poll that bears his name that it's easy to forget how many of his pioneering research methods - still used by [...]

Byline: ANN-CHRISTINE DIAZ AND SHAREEN PATHAK Perhaps the most famous agency-client relationship of the "Mad Men" era was that of DDB and Volkswagen, which yielded iconic print ads like "Lemon" [...]

Few high-rolling admen were eager to practice what Bill Bernbach preached when he challenged consumers' acquisitive tendencies in his iconic 1959 ad for Volkswagen that urged them to 'think small'. [...]

5. Gibbs SR: first UK TV commercial British advertising changed for all time at 8.12pm on 22 September 1955 Not many people were able to share the moment. Only those [...]

Accenture, the global consultancy business, has called a review of its dollars 40 million US advertising account. The pitch for the business, which is currently handled by Young & Rubicam, [...]

Telefonica has appointed Mother as the global ad agency for its Movistar brand after a pitch against McCann Erickson and Publicis. The appointment ends a five-month pitch process that also [...]

Agency: Young and Rubicam Name of campaign: 'Economic Adversity Launch date: November 2008 Creative credits: Creative director: Dick Sinreich; copywriter: Dick Sinreich; art director: Michael Brennecke; account managing director: Britta [...]

It's been a long trip out to Atlanta this week for the equally long list of agencies lining up for the global UPS pitch. Teams from Arnold, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, [...]

WPP and Omnicom to partner media and ad agencies for pounds 60m global review. Allianz, one of the largest general insurers in the world, has called a review of the [...]

Harvey Goldsmith, one of music's top impresarios, and Roger Daltrey, the lead singer of The Who, are to speak at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. As guests of Young [...]

Christophe Gilbert collaborated with Young & Rubicam on a six-ad campaign launching a line of televisions for LG. The ads were shot in Europe and Asia. The art director was [...]

Redundancies at middle management level are on the increase, but US agencies are hiring in other areas. It's at least 6,827 and counting. That's the number of US ad agency [...]

Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals has been forced to pull an ad for its birth control pill Yaz. Concerns were expressed by the US Food and Drug Administration that the 60-second ad [...]

Pizza Hut has shortlisted four agencies to pitch for its advertising account. JWT, Young & Rubicam, Bates and Grey have been invited to pitch, with the winning agency expected to [...]

JUNE 7, 1958: Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 1957 invested a record-breaking $46,472,000 in newspaper advertising space, spread among 993 dailies and weeklies in all 50 states. That represented 78.1% [...]

by C.C. Sullivan Creativity and economy collide at Team Detroit, the Gensler-designed home for six merged ad and marketing agencies Like stars crashing on a cosmic scale, mergers of formerly [...]

The campaign is pretty brilliant, showing a close-up image of the spot covered up by the ad. Leica enlisted photographer Christian Bobst to shoot the ads, which were handled by [...]

SingTel, one of Asia's leading telecoms groups, is reviewing the creative assignment on its dollars 20 million account currently held by Young & Rubicam. The agency has been invited to [...]

Toshiba is set to appoint Grey to its pounds 25 million pan-European advertising account after a final pitch against Lowe, Saatchi & Saatchi and Young & Rubicam. Grey, which is [...]

Glue London has been appointed to the global digital advertising account for Bacardi Rum without a pitch, as the drinks giant is looking to increase its focus on online marketing. [...]

ABN Amro is reviewing its creative advertising arrangements in South-East Asia. The investment bank is expected to kick off conversations with agencies this week. Likely candidates for the account include [...]

Alfa Romeo has ended months of speculation by appointing the Young & Rubicam (Y&R) network to handle its #50m pan-European advertising account. The move finally ends the Italian car marque's […]

Tiger Beer is reviewing its UK media business, following last month's appointment of Young & Rubicam to handle its advertising. The media account is currently handled by Walker Media; Tiger [...]

Unless the industry learns to stand up for what it knows is right, its fears about the future will be realised, Massimo Costa says. This is a backbone. 'You can't [...]

NEW YORK -- Paris, New York, London, Madrid and Moscow were selected as finalists by the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday to host the 2012 Olympics. Promoting the Paris bid [...]

NEW YORK -- Taking a cue from the storied Coney Island location of the New York Aquarium, an outdoor campaign by Young & Rubicam, which broke on Monday, touts the [...]

No, she's not trying to elbow Barbie off the toy-store shelf. But a new doll from Mattel can certainly develop an attitude. She's called What's Her Face, and true to [...]

CHICAGO--Sears, Roebuck and Co. selected a strategy from Young & Rubicam for a major rebranding campaign after a creative shootout between Y&R and the retailer's other roster agency, Ogilvy & [...]

In a departure from their usual roles as fierce competitors, three agencies have teamed up for an integrated campaign. TBWA/Chiat/Day, Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam created a short [...]

Aardman has a new 3D ad out in the US this month for Young & Rubicam client, Dr Pepper. I wish I had lips was developed by cartoonist/illustrator Gary Boiler; [...]