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Who will the next Lottery winner be?

Back in March, the Idaho Lottery issued a Creative Services Request for Proposal. Not unusual, given that it’s a state agency, and the RFP calendar and process is pretty cyclical.

The question of who will be selected to provide creatives services for the Lottery is still to be determined. But we know one agency it won’t be.

Yesterday, incumbent shop Mitchell Palmer shared a post and video on their LinkedIn page wishing their friends at the Idaho Lottery success in finding their next creative partner.

For background and context, Mitchell + Palmer was awarded the creative portion of the Lottery’s work in 2015, following a similar RFP process.

The new creative services contract is scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2021, according to the proposed timeline in the Idaho Lottery’s RFP. In 2012, the Lottery first issued separate contracts for creative and media. CLM has held the media portion of the contract since then, and added strategy in more recent years.

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Publicis Boise is part of a new Team

Publicis recently announced that the Boise office is now a part of Team One, Publicis Groupe’s “fully integrated media, digital and communications agency for premium brands.”

The transition is the latest organizational shift resulting from Publicis Groupe’s realignment of resources, and will now more deeply connect Team One’s media, technology and strategy offerings with the Boise team’s daily operations, according to a spokesman.

The Boise office opened its doors over 30 years ago as Floathe Johnson, which was then acquired by EvansGroup, and later became a part of Publicis. The office will still be led by Managing Director Christal Gammill, who first joined Evans Group in 1997, and has overseen options since 2013.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Team One also has offices in Dallas, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and now Boise.

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Northwest Media is in new hands

Lewiston’s Northwest Media has been acquired by Inland Cellular.

As reported by the Lewiston Tribune, “Inland Cellular acquired Northwest Media in Lewiston from Thomas, Dean & Hoskins Inc., which is based in Great Falls, Mont.”

Also from the Tribune, “Two Northwest Media employees who did graphic design and created and maintained websites for businesses and institutions are transferring to a department at Inland Cellular that does similar work.”

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The call came from inside

Several months ago we shared that Drake Cooper was looking for a Creative Director.

It appears they found the right candidate inside their own four walls, so to speak.

Continue reading “The call came from inside”
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Moving on

People in the agency business come and go on a regular basis. For any number of reasons. While the trends may not be as pronounced locally as they are at a national level, it certainly happens.

But every once in a while there’s a departure that makes us stand up and take notice. In recent months, there have been two.

In late November, Marc Cowlin exited his role as VP of Content and Digital Marketing at Duft Watterson, and in doing so effectively shuttered the shop’s San Francisco presence. A little digging around LinkedIn in the weeks that followed revealed that he is now with BlueOwl, a San Francisco-based technology company.

Separately, in late December Jeremy Chase left Drake Cooper (again), this time to take on the role of VP of Business Development at Salt Lake City-based Love Communications. The update came a couple weeks after Drake Cooper’s announcement that agency ownership had been converted to an ESOP structure.

I do not presume to know the reasons behind either of these departures, as there’s always more to the story than what may be shared publicly.

I’ve known both Jeremy and Marc for many years, and wish them nothing but the best in their respective new roles.