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Billboard's Power Players series highlights the achievements of individuals who drive the fields of music and entertainment forward with their artistic and business vision. As our writers and editors surveyed [...]

A funny thing about tomorrow: it never looks so hot when it finally gets here. Just a year ago, it seemed like consumer-generated content was the future come among us. [...]

Although last year's Super Bowl seemed to herald a new level of consumer involvement--notably, user-gen ads from Chevrolet, Doritos and the NFL--this year's broadcast on Fox is looking a bit [...]

As an eighth grader in New Jersey, Marc Ecko would airbrush graffiti-style bubble letters onto his classmates jean jackets at their request. By the time he got to high school [...]

As an eighth grader in New Jersey, Marc Ecko would airbrush graffiti-style bubble letters onto his classmates jean jackets at their request. By the time he got to high school [...]

NEW YORK -- Starz, the pay cable network, this week launched a multimedia campaign from MDC's Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners.The $25 million yearlong push consists of TV spots, banner ads, [...]

NEW YORK -- Dairy Queen, the ice cream and fast-food restaurant chain, this week launched a campaign from Grey, New York, that differs markedly in tone from the shop's previous [...]

NEW YORK -- Marc Ecko Enterprises, a client known for its viral videos that blur the line between fiction and reality, today launches a TV and Internet campaign from independent [...]

In 1988, one of the more unusual things a visitor to dirty, dangerous Manhattan would have seen was a trio of blue-painted, black-clad bald men parading around the East Village, [...]

NEW YORK -- Peter McGuinness has been named chairman and CEO of Interpublic Group's Gotham. He succeeds Gunnar Wilmot, who becomes svp, market development for IPG's McCann Worldgroup operations.For the [...]

NEW YORK -- The Alliance for Climate Protection and Current TV are taking their environmental message to the nation's movie houses via Screenvision.The advertising network for theater screens is joining [...]

NEW YORK -- Land Rover in mid-April will launch an integrated campaign from Young & Rubicam Brands, tied to the all-terrain vehicle's 60th anniversary. On Wednesday, Ford announced that it [...]

As a kid growing up during the early '60s in Roxborough, a blue-collar neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Alan Cohen would write away to the big three networks for copies of [...]

NEW YORK -- Scion is getting into the crest business. As part of a campaign by independent StrawberryFrog, New York, the carmaker last week launched an online effort centered on [...]

As a kid growing up during the early '60s in Roxborough, a blue-collar neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Alan Cohen would write away to the big three networks for copies of [...]

NEW YORK -- What are the odds? Both Las Vegas and Vegas.com launched new campaigns this week. Las Vegas, in the form of the Las Vegas Conventions and Visitors Authority, [...]

NEW YORK -- The Brooklyn Brothers, an ad agency that is neither based in Brooklyn nor run by brothers, is getting into the chocolate business. The New York-based independent is [...]

NEW YORK -- Omnicom Group's DDB has named Amy Eagle, director of client services at Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners, to steer its global Unilever ice cream account.Eagle, who assumes the [...]

NEW YORK -- The Cannes Film jury this year will consider spots made for screens other than TV and cinema, such as the Internet, mobile and branded content, the organization [...]

NEW YORK -- Rhapsody wants you to play anywhere.The Seattle-based music subscription site, a joint venture of Real Network and MTV Networks, today launched a new campaign from Publicis-backed Droga5.In [...]

Isidoro DeBellis' award-winning career started on a less than encouraging note. After graduating from the University of Windsor, Toronto, in 1985, where he majored in film and TV, the aspiring [...]

NEW YORK -- Takashi Murakami is a Japanese artist, designer and mentor who is best known for coining the style 'Superflat' -- an intermingling of traditional Japanese painting with contemporary [...]

NEW YORK -- As the National Hockey League gears up for its second season, cable network Versus is looking to reach fans as their teams make it to the playoffs [...]

NEW YORK -- Fliers of Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air may find themselves wondering on Wednesday why there is a large portrait of a man's face painted blue on the side [...]

Kurt Andersen is known for many things. Co-founder of the seminal snarky magazine, Spy, author of Turn of the Century and Heyday, and host of the arts and culture show [...]

NEW YORK -- Here comes the U.S. Coast Guard. One of the five branches of the U.S. military with responsibility for coastal security, among other things, the Coast Guard this [...]

NEW YORK -- What would it take to get you to change your hair color? Procter & Gamble's Perfect 10 by Clairol's Nice & Easy, which arrived on store shelves [...]

NEW YORK -- If the world as we know it comes to an end, pests like cockroaches are expected to survive.Not if Terminix has anything to say about it.Publicis Mid-America's [...]

NEW YORK -- This year's Super Bowl viewers saw a group of lizards dancing with supermodel (and cell phone enthusiast) Naomi Campbell to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' in a spot for [...]

When Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen took the stage two weeks ago to accept Saatchi & Saatchi's Award for World Changing Ideas for his company's product, LifeStraw -- a purification tube that [...]

NEW YORK -- Mohegan Sun is taking its latest cue from musical theater. But instead of Broadway actors singing show tunes, they're singing remakes of popular songs in their own [...]

GameStop, the world's largest gaming retailer, has more than 4,000 stores in the U.S. Inside the vast majority of those stores sits a large-screen television that only plays GameStop TV, [...]

NEW YORK -- What do Hunter S. Thompson, Sid Vicious and James Dean all have in common? Besides being dead, they're all front and center in a new print campaign [...]

NEW YORK --MDC Partners' Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Miami has landed a new global creative assignment from Microsoft following a review, the client confirmed today. Fallon in Minneapolis, a [...]

NEW YORK --Some things never change in the baseball world. Pitchers and catchers report to spring training earlier than their teammates. The Yankees' payroll, already astronomical, continues to rise. And [...]

NEW YORK --Derek Handley is such an avid poker player that in addition to playing in three World Poker Tour events over the years, where he usually finishes in the [...]

NEW YORK --Johnson & Johnson's BabyCenter.com is taking the lessons it learned from its five-month-old Spanish language mobile site and applying them to an English-language mobile site set to launch [...]

NEW YORK --Marcello Serpa, partner and general creative director of AlmapBBDO, Sao Paulo, Brazil, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 49th annual Clio Awards Festival, the organization said. [...]

NEW YORK -- Edible Arrangements on Sunday will launch its first national TV campaign. Created by Hot Dish, Minneapolis, Edible's agency for the past five years, one of the two [...]

NEW YORK -- MDC's Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners has been awarded creative and media planning duties on Mega Brands, maker of Mega Bloks and Rose Art, following a review, per [...]

NEW YORK -- The 11-person creative group, which turns 10 this year, got its start when founders Gary Freedman and Jonathan Kneebone, Brits working at Young & Rubicam in Sydney, [...]

NEW YORK -- We're on the brink of a global financial crisis partly as a result of consumer denial about bad spending habits.That's the premise of an integrated campaign for [...]

NEW YORK -- MDC's Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners has been awarded Avon's global fragrances account following a review, the client confirmed.Account billings exceed $60 million, per sources. Kirshenbaum will be [...]

NEW YORK --Procter & Gamble will be named Advertiser of the Year at the 55th Cannes Lions Festival in June. The award is given to advertisers whose marketing is inspiring [...]

NEW YORK -- Garanimals, the beloved children's clothing line, is attempting to re-enter the public's consciousness with a campaign from Gardner Nelson + Partners.Advertising, Adweek http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1227613352http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1126101268var config = new Array();config['videoId'] [...]

Milos Forman is a storyteller. The 75-year-old director decided to become one while listening to tales being told by his elders while growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. 'I [...]

NEW YORK -- Video greeting cards? Vidigreet wants to make them as ubiquitous as static electronic cards that play tunes when opened. The Hollywood, Calif.-based company is offering subscriptions to [...]

NEW YORK -- Although last year's Super Bowl seemed to herald a new level of consumer involvement--notably, user-gen ads from Chevrolet, Doritos and the NFL--this year's broadcast on Fox is [...]

NEW YORK -- This year will be Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire's first time advertising during the Super Bowl. Why now? According to Glenn Dady, brand cd at The Richards [...]

NEW YORK -- Miller Brewing has turned to a pair of roster shops for creative duties on Miller Lite Brewers Collection, a trio of low-calorie, craft-style beers, the company said. [...]