Hasta La Creative!

We’ve put in the inquiries with the United States Postal Service on this, but until we receive comment, we’re hearing from sources in the know that some of the agencies pitching for the USPS creative business include WPP siblings JWT and Grey. We’ve been told that both are finalists while other names that have been thrown in the hat include Mullen and Droga5, though the latter two have yet to confirm involvement (Update: We’ve been told by sources that Mullen is NOT in the mix, though the first two we’ve mentioned are).

It’s been six months since the government agency began cutting ties with Campbell-Ewald, which had been working with USPS for 10 years. The Postal Service shifted its media duties, meanwhile, to UM. Sources add that a decision is expected to be made by the USPS in April.

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SSE, the UK’s second-largest energy supplier, is reviewing its advertising and digital accounts. The reviews are being managed separately by AAR.

Ogilvy & Mather UK has appointed Cheryl Giovannoni, the president of the WPP agency’s sister branding consultancy Landor Associates, as its new chief executive, replacing Hugh Baillie.

Novartis, the pharmaceutical giant, has appointed DDB Remedy to handle the international roll-out of a new over-the-counter product.

Leo Burnett London has poached the JWT creative director Hugh Todd.

VCCP has won a three-way competitive pitch for the pan-European advertising account for Courvoisier, the cognac brand owned by the US drinks company Beam.

The epic story of humanity in four parts.

From Adbusters #106: Mental Breakdown of a Nation

When humans figured out how to synthesize fertilizer from fossil fuels, we suddenly gleaned two billion people’s worth of food from the same small piece of land – flouting competition and lack of resources, and spreading across the globe like contagion. We waged war on our microscopic enemies: bacteria, viruses, fungi, and all other microbes. We conjured antibiotics, vaccines, water-treatment plants, and continued to annihilate as much of our biological competition as possible. In short: we were cunning.

Hunger led us to agriculture. Later, lust, pride, beauty, cleanliness, power, order, and control drove us to even greater discoveries: penicillin, ethanol, organ transplants, and silicone breasts. And every new discovery harbored a secret prophecy, a vision of future humanity – sublime and indestructible – promising to extend our life spans, make us invulnerable, make things easier, more comfortable, more convenient, and efficient.

In just these past two hundred years, the number of humans inhabiting the earth went from one to eight billion. We’ve taken over the whole planet, and we just keep growing …

Check out Humanity 1.0: Our Birth & Humanity 2.0: The First Leap … Part 4 coming soon.

(TrendHunter.com) The FreshWall design concept aims to promote a healthy and pleasant indoor environment for its users. In addition to letting one grow fresh herbs and vegetable in their home year-round, this urban…

The deal with ID&T, perhaps the biggest in the market so far, will give SFX a major foothold on the global festival circuit as it tries to build a $1 billion media empire centered on dance.

Computer networks running three major South Korean banks and two of the country’s largest broadcasters were hit Wednesday in attacks that some experts suspected originated in North Korea.