Idaho Ad Agencies

Goodby Tops Publicis For HP Global Assignment

I know, you’re wondering what this has to do with agencies in Idaho.

Well, Goodby Silverstein & Partners will be taking work away from Publicis in Seattle. The Publicis Boise office is, for all intents and purposes, an extension of the Seattle office. Therefore, Goodby Silverstein & Partners (in theory) has just taken away a chunk of work from Publicis Boise.

Once again, this business, even at the local level, does not operate in a vacuum.

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As an employee, do you think it is easier to go from working on the client-side to the agency-side, or vice-versa?

A couple of notable examples on the client-to-agency side:

• Jamie Cooper – moved from ProClarity, where he was the Vice President of Corporate Marketing, to es/drake, where he is now the Chief Operating Officer.
• Traci O’Donnell – moved from the J.R. Simplot Company, where she was a Marketing Manager, to Stoltz Marketing Group, where she is not the Director of Business Development.

Moves from the agency-to-client side tend to be a little less obvious, for a couple of reasons:

• Agencies don’t want to admit that they’ve lost talent, which could mean a loss of future business.
• Hiring someone away from an agency just doesn’t seem to have the same newsworthiness as an agency hiring someone away from the client side.

What do you think? And what about agency-to-agency? Is that its own ballgame?

Feel free to leave a comment here, or send an email here.

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No, its not the title to a scene out of some bizarre sci-fi comic — er, graphic novel as they’re apparently called today.

Blueline Grassroots Marketing of Nampa recently acquired the web development company Flat Planet, also of Nampa. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe they are both located out near the Idaho Center, in the TECenter on the BSU West campus.

The two companies have worked together in the past, so this shouldn’t come as a big surprise to anyone. After all, it was just this spring that es/drake purchased AB Positive and merged it into their agency. Since they are two small companies, hopefully the Blueline / Flat Planet integration doesn’t come with the same headaches that seem to come with the territory.

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John Liebenthal has returned to Oliver Russell & Associates as a Senior Copywriter. This is John’s second stint with the agency — he was with the agency for a couple of years during the heady dot com days, before moving over to Publicis in Boise, and most recently The Kern Organization in Los Angeles.

Welcome back John.

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Okay, okay, so I know I’m a few days late in posting this.

The Boise Craigslist website has an anonymous job listing for a Graphic Designer. From reading the listing, I gather that they’re looking for a jack-of-all-trades sort of designer, who can do a little bit of everything.

Once again, this is an anonymous listing via craigslist, but from there are certain lines within it that lead me to think that the hiring agency is…….any guesses? I’ve got mine.

Oh yeah, and before I forget — thanks once again to Danny G over at AdPulp for the mention recently. I appreciate the kind words.

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