In The Spotlight

Here’s new work for Volkswagen from Deutsch

The spot, for the Passat, “Lucky Man,” shows how fragile life can be, and how important it is to protect what matters to you. It begins with the idyllic life of a man and his family. He kisses his wife ...

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HEADLINES

Moroch Enlists Brad McCormick as Chief Digital Officer
Moroch Enlists Brad McCormick as Chief Digital Officer

Moroch Partners, a leading full-service, independent marketing and communications agency, has hired digital leader Brad B. McCormick as its Chief Digital Officer, a new position ...

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Record FIVE Series Headed to Chicago
Record FIVE Series Headed to Chicago

Fresh off a record 2012 year for the Illinois film industry (more), another record has been broken. A total of five TV series slated for ...

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Moisture Vaporators
Moisture Vaporators

Here’s an interesting read from the folks at Mayo Draftfcb in Peru – a little off our standard beat, but apparently they’ve taken a page ...

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Filmmaker Focus
SEA WOLF singer/songwriter Alex Brown Church
SEA WOLF singer/songwriter Alex Brown Church

Full disclosure: Mac is a huge fan of SEA WOLF. He ran into them at a show and was scrambling for an excuse to interview ...

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Call Sheet
Green Light for 2 More TV Shows
Green Light for 2 More TV Shows

ABC JOINS THE PARTY: Apparently ABC didn’t want NBC to have ALL the fun shooting their TV shows in Chicago, as they have picked up ...

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Revolving Door
HUGO-GO
HUGO-GO

Broadcast veterans, notable filmmakers and entertainment afficianados gathered to celebrate the Hugo Awards in River East’s internationally acclaimed Radisson Blu Hotel on Tuesday night. “Recognizing ...

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Adventures in Advertising
Oprah!
Oprah!

When Oprah bought the Fred Niles studios and transformed them into Harpo Studios, it created a lot of employment for Chicago. The first time I ...

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