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I accompanied PHD Detroit's Fred Sattler (the most creative media mind in America, and I said it so you know it's true), PHD Detroit's Lori Collins and Dodge client Mark Spencer and friends to Nobu in the Hard Rock, and we all ate slimy, shiny, shimm...

Talking teenagers and the alien worlds they live in outside the main room at the Venetian Friday ayem with King World's Michael Auerbach, who called himself a "trailing spouse" at the Confo (he came with his wife, TvB's Abby Auerbach). On plane from ...

TV cable and broadcast networks haven’t seen any appreciable CPM price hikes in many months - or even years -- now that TV advertisers sense they can hold back money in the upfronts, and still get their price later in the year. “There is no pe...

Normally, keynoters addressing industry conferences just tell people how to do a better job – or how to do a better job of buying their products or services. This morning, AOL Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis went one better, telling attendees at the AAAA...

On the final morning of his last AAAAs media conference, Burtch Drake dined alone. The AAAAs chief executive -- who's spent years glad-handing agency execs and clients (he once was European area director for Life Savers, based in London) -- took a pa...

Omnicom insiders are denying the rumor circling around the AAAA media conference here that Carat chief David Verklin may be stepping in to fill the shoes of departing OMD chief Joe Uva. “People think it’s an interesting rumor, but they were almos...

Got to give credit to out-of-home pundit Andrea MacDonald for perhaps the line of the conference. During an otherwise dry-ish panel discussion Thursday, she recounted a campaign on the New York Subway for the Bronx Zoo, where creative consisted entir...

Hall watching, I made contact with an old warrior, and it was good. Jerry Gibbons, for 13 years the head of the 4A's in the West, plus three decades of experience running his own shops in San Francisco (one of which he sold to NW Ayer) and working in...

Las Vegas -- IAG Research got a nice big endorsement early at the 4A's media conference -- actually before the convention -- when Alan Wurtzel, the president of research and media development of NBC, said the network would be open to guaranteeing not...