The Los Angeles Times won five Pulitzer Prizes yesterday, dominating this year's competition with writing that included editorials, automobile reviews and breaking news coverage of the wildfires that devastated Southern California last fall.
In Ohio and 16 other states viewed as key in the presidential race, spots are airing at an unheard of rate for this stage of the campaign.
The remaking of the advertising industry continues with a spate of acquisitions, spinoffs, reorganizations, start-ups and buyouts involving several agencies. The Cleveland office of the Wolf Group - the last one remaining after the abrupt closing of its parent, Wolf Group Integrated Communications in Toronto - has completed a management buyout, becoming an independent shop.
Variety is reporting that online DVD rental upstart Netflix will be visiting our email boxes next year. With video on demand (VOD) posing a grave and gathering danger to his company, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is going on the offensive.
The chairman of Walt Disney Co.'s struggling ABC network has begun negotiations to leave his post amid a broader restructuring, Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety reported on Tuesday.
Researchers have found that every hour preschoolers watch television each day boosts their chances - by about 10 percent - of developing attention deficit problems later in life.
For handheld video game makers like Nintendo, a popular TV character like SpongeBob SquarePants may be cute, but he's no moneymaking match for video game heavyweights such as Super Mario or Donkey Kong.
The seniors' group is using its magazine to assure us getting older is, uh, sexy and, oh yeah, fun. The seniors group's magazine is trying to appeal to varying generations of (ssshhh) older people.
On Madison Avenue these days, breaking up is easy to do. Two big advertisers, Subway Restaurants and Yahoo, are introducing commercials that tell stories by splitting the television screen in half vertically. The split-screen spots for Subway, by Fallon Worldwide in Minneapolis, began Saturday and their counterparts for Yahoo, by Soho Square in New York, part of the WPP Group, are to start appearing today.
Negotiations start today, with key issues being healthcare and pay. So far, the bitter relations of 2001 are a no-show.