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Cliff Freeman Loses Bonefish Grill – Quiznos also shaky. Shop appears to be in freefall. (Cliff Freefall?) BNET noted turmoil at the agency on Nov. 19, 2008. [Source: Ad Age]

Ogilvy CEO Miles Young gives Q&A — Wants five year plan, has a strain of “Marxism” in him. [Source: Economic Times]

T-Mobile pulls TV spots starring Charles Barkley — Basketball great was arrested for drunken-driving on New Year’s Eve. [Source: Ad Age]

Decline of Western Civilization — School, facing budget crunch, allows advertising on its property. [Source: The Day]

Zenith Media wins Jenny Craig — Publicis Groupe’s Zenith Media has been awarded planning and buying chores for Jenny Craig, the Nestle unit that offers weight management foods and services, after a review, the client has confirmed. Zenith has handled many of Nestle’s other media chores for several years. Jenny Craig spent $70 million in measured media from January-October 2008. [Source: Adweek]

Porter Novelli names Anthony Viceroy president of global operations and CFO — He joins from Omnicom’s Diversified Agency Services group, where he had been svp, financial management and client partnership. [Source: Adweek]

WPP’s Kinetic Mobile unit now “Joule” — A dedicated mobile agency. Joule will be integrated across all of WPP’s Group M agencies, which include Mindshare, Mediaedge and Mediacom, as well as execute mobile campaigns for non-WPP clients. [Source: Ad Age]

Intel shifts account to Venables Bell — Intel is shifting an important advertising assignment — to create brand and corporate image campaigns — to a smaller, independent agency from a Madison Avenue giant.
Intel is hiring Venables Bell & Partners in San Francisco, which works for advertisers like Audi of America and Barclays, as its lead global creative agency, replacing McCann Erickson Worldwide. [Source: NYT]

Enfatico fails to pay its freelance employees — Blogger George Parker, notorious rumor-monger, heard that Enfatico is falling behind on payments to freelancers. He turned out to be right. [Source: AgencySpy]

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Cliff Freeman Loses Bonefish Grill

Ad Age - 313 days 7 hours 21 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Embattled New York shop Cliff Freeman & Partners has lost its Bonefish Grill account to Y&R, Chicago, executives familiar with the matter said. The move comes after the restaurant chain, owned by OSI Partners, handed its creative account to Cliff Freeman a little over a year ago. Representatives for the agencies or...
End of era as Cliff Freeman closes shop

Campaign Brief - 21 days 5 hours 51 minutes ago

AdAge reports that after 22 years, Cliff Freeman (left) the agency chief behind the landmark Little Caesars' "Pizza Pizza" and Outpost.com campaigns - amongst many others - is shutting down his legendary New York agency, Cliff Freeman & Partners. 2009 wasn't too kind to CF&P, which reacquired MDC's 20% stake earlier this year but lost...
10% Staff Cut at Ogilvy Group, per Sources

Adweek - 321 days 9 hours 55 minutes ago

Ogilvy's Miles YoungNEW YORK The Ogilvy Group today cut about 10 percent of its staff across multiple units in response to client spending reductions that exceed the WPP Group shop's new business growth, sources said.The cut affected the North American offices of units such as Ogilvy & Mather, OgilvyOne, Ogilvy Interactive and OgilvyAction,...
10% Staff Cut at Ogilvy Group

Adweek - 321 days 9 hours 55 minutes ago

Ogilvy's Miles YoungNEW YORK The Ogilvy Group today cut about 10 percent of its staff across multiple units in response to client spending reductions that exceed the WPP Group shop's new business growth, sources said.The cut affected the North American offices of units such as Ogilvy & Mather, OgilvyOne, Ogilvy Interactive and OgilvyAction,...
Thanks for the laughs, Cliff Freeman & Partners R.I.P.

Ad Land - 23 days 13 hours 52 minutes ago

Looks like the rumors are true, Cliff Freeman and partners is no more. Adweek reports The mystery surrounding the ongoing status of Cliff Freeman and Partners deepened as sources said CFP staffers in New York have been packing up boxes and selling equipment and chief financial officer Gail Hoffman Frusciante is leaving the shop today. She...