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]
