SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The owner of a Springfield advertising agency is accused of stealing $500,000 in federal funds that was to pay for anti-drunken-driving billboards.
Robert Sullinger is the owner of Great Plains Group LLC of Springfield. The 59-year-old Sullinger was paid more than $1.5 million in federal grant funds to produce and post billboards […]
Shady Industry : Ad Agency Owner Accused of Fraud
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Advertising agency Barkley has bought Web design firm Ripple Effects Interactive Inc. for an undisclosed amount.
Digg : We are not being bought my Microsoft or Google
TechCrunch pushed out an article stating that Digg is for sale and the next thing you know, within hours Digg responds with we are not for sale
Hey all,
Normally our policy is to not comment about things like this, but this morning’s rumors about a bidding war involving Google and Microsoft have created such a stir […]
Advertising Agencies ‘the reason’ for slow HD adoption
It appears that HD broadcasts are being slowed not by the number of HD flat panels and hardware on the consumer side, but rather from the slow rate of adoption by advertising agencies in creating HD quality ads.
The criticisms incidentally started showing up on the popular sqlspace.com forum (coincidently the same forum that Microsoft ordered […]
Publicis threatened to be outed
Roll on the floor… This is why we love Agency Spy
Here is the skinny from Agency spy:
Ad data processor Donovan Data Systems and Publicis’ Starcom Mediavest are going to war. CEO Michael Donovan (pictured below) runs one of Madison Avenue’s biggest operating system for media buys. Publicis Groupe Media was a big client of […]
Steve Eisner declares bankruptcy after Advertising Agency Eisner Communications Inc crashes
Steve Eisner, once a fixture of Baltimore social circles and its business community, has filed for personal bankruptcy.
The former chairman of Eisner Communications Inc. and wife Sara Eisner jointly filed Chapter 7 on Feb. 21, almost a year and a half after his advertising agency collapsed.
The pair listed $4 million in liabilities and $50,000 […]
