Brian Platt has joined Solve as Group Creative Director. Platt will help lead the agency’s growing creative department and personally manage a number of clients.
Platt brings a wealth of experience from stints at some of the industry’s most decorated agencies, including StrawberryFrog, Grey and Euro RSCG in New York. He’s created powerful integrated campaigns for brands including Walmart, Microsoft, Dos Equis, Mo[Read More]
FLM Harvest is using two turntables and a bunch of mushrooms to encourage home cooks to make their burgers a bit healthier and a lot more delicious.
The Minneapolis agency recently launched the "Remix Your Recipe" digital campaign for client The Mushroom Council, encouraging consumers to rethink traditional burger recipes by blending meat with chopped fresh mushrooms.
The campaign features YouTube pre-roll ads featuring animated DJ turntables spinning burgers on the platters. [Read More]
Truvia Names Public Works Creative Agency of Record
Things keep getting sweeter for Public Works. In May of 2019, Truvia selected the Minneapolis-based agency as its new digital partner. Eight months later, Public Works was awarded an expanded role by being named Creative Agency of Record (AOR) for the natural, zero-calorie sweetener brand owned by Cargill.
The independent agency will take over as the lead strategic, creative and social agency while continuing its dig[Read More]
Object, a Minneapolis design studio, recently partnered with tech.mn to rebrand their visual identity system. tech.mn serves Minnesota's technology industry with resources, news, podcasts and events.
Object's strategy was to look at technology as a result of human ingenuity and highlight the originality & creativity within the tech community. The focus is on people not just the machines, devices and data associated with it. We visually expre[Read More]
Working from home is harder than it seems. Can we get an amen? Between pacing the hallway between the living room and the kitchen, we haven’t spent this long away from people and it’s starting to show. Have you seen the threads of awkward Zoom calls?
That said, many thanks to all y'all for staying home to slow the spread of COVID-19. Our good friends at Halftone have put together WFH Survival Kit to reward all of us for doing our part—and hopefully keep you entertained a bit lon[Read More]
By Tracy Call, CEO/founder, Media Bridge Advertising
If it feels like COVID-19 has changed everything in an instant, it has. We weren’t a work-from-home country two weeks ago. Now we are. In the advertising and media worlds, consumer habits have changed for months or years to come. Some businesses are fighting for survival. Others are taking advantage of new opportunities, especially in e-commerce. Unfortunately, the one uni[Read More]
Alex Frecon, winner of this year's Best of Show at AdFed's The Show, is sharing with us his latest project. Alex is big into hockey. So he took a trip to Kenya to play hockey with the Kenyan National hockey team—the Ice Lions.
You read right. There's hockey in Kenya. And, yeah, there's a hockey rink in Kenya. To be exact, it's in Nairobi. In the basement of the Panari hotel.
Annon / Ad Agencies Must Help Their Clients NOW by Taking the COVID Pledge
You make your money from the media buy. Hopefully you will get down off you pedestal. This is a lame attempt to be opportunistic without changin...[Read More]
Bender69 / Hockey in Kenya?
Did the white dude in the image break his ankle? Looks like he's about to....[Read More]
Wake me when Nicholson is gone / Periscope and Hefty Launch New Campaign Featuring the World’s Strongest Man
Q: Didn’t someone do a similar idea years ago with strongmen?
A: Yes, this idea comes around every few years. The execution is typically be...[Read More]
