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Distressed Polaroid to Distressed Havas

AdWeek: $50 Mil. Polaroid Taps Havas Shops Distressed ad agency holding company Havas won the even-more-distressed "$50 million" account of Polaroid. The camera maker came out of bankruptcy a little more than a year ago and proved t  [...]

Marketers: Ads, Agencies Decline in Importance

NYT: Survey on Client - Agency Relations A closely-watched annual agency-client survey - to be released later today - will show a continuing downward spiral of faith in advertising and ad agencies. Many of the measures of client-agency faith, goodwill and trust are at near-record lows. Most survey participants cited the economy as the primary factor for the low marks. In an industry full of optimistic sales people, onl  [...]

Veritas to MediaCom

Ad Age: MEDIACOM WINS VERITAS $15 MILLION ACCOUNT Veritas Software awarded its approximately $15 million media buying account to Grey's MediaCom. About 20 firms competed for the business, including Universal McCann and Carat. The incumbent was the San Francisco office of Hill, Holliday, Conners, Cosmopulos. The creative portion of the account was previously awarded to San Francisco's Godfrey Q.   [...]

Greyhound to Slingshot

Slingshot adds $2MM in billingsGreyhound Bus Lines chose Dallas-based full service agency Slingshot LLC for its $2 million online advertising account. Eight other agencies competed for the business.   [...]

Director of Biggest Public Online Budget to Step Down

AdWeek: ONDCP Ad Director to Step Down Kinda makes youwant to light upThe director of the largest public interest online advertising budget, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Alan Levitt, will step down. The snake-  [...]

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Travelocity Narrows Agency Search

AdWeek: $30 Mil. Travelocity Books Visits From 15 selected agencies, Travelocity narrowed its $30 million, online-heavy account to four, possibly five contenders. One agency remains unnamed, but the others are Arnold's New York office, Martin/Williams Minneapolis, BBDO in New York and DDB Dallas and Chicago.   [...]

Dell and United to OMD Digital

MediaPost: Dell and United Airlines OMD Digital, the Chicago-based online agency, took both the Dell Computer and United Airlines online buying assignments.   [...]

Hotwire to McCann/SF

MediaPost: Universal McCann SF Wins Hotwire.com Account HotWire, the online discount travel site, awarded its advertising account to Universal McCann San Francisco.   [...]

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Leap Wireless to Butler Shine

AdWeek (via Yahoo): Butler, Shine's Value Focus Helps Shop Land Leap Unit Butler Shine took the Leap wireless account, the teen-focused subsidiary of Cricket Communications. The company, now in bankruptcy, was the last of three recent bankrupt companies conducting online marketing to run new agency searches. Hopefully, the Butler people asked for  [...]

ATT Wireless Account to Digitas

AdWeek: Digitas Lands AT&T Wireless' Digital Duties The other shoe dropped on the AT&T Wireless business, with Digitas taking the online component of the account away from Avenue A. The traditional media portion of the $120 million account has a  [...]