May 19

AMV BBDO Co-Founder David Abbott Dies at 75

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AMV BBDO mourns the passing of David Abbott, our co-founder and friend. May he rest in peace. #DavidAbbott pic.twitter.com/voetwEI18o

— Abbott Mead Vickers (@AMV_BBDO) May 18, 2014
Ad legend and AMV BBDO co-founder David Abbott passed away this weekend at the age of 75. He launched the agency in 1977 after years of copywriting success and

Fellow founder Peter Mead paid tribute in a statement released to The Drum blog, writing:
“He meant more to me than I can possibly express in words…His talent catapulted AMV into the advertising stratosphere.”
Current BBDO Worldwide CEO Andrew Robertson had some words of his own–and this morning, Campaign Live shared some of Abbot’s most memorable creative work (pics after the jump)…

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Apr 28

BBDO NY Brings Together 3 Clients for Autism Awareness Month

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BBDO New York collaborated with clients Johnson & Johnson, Campbell Soup Company and AT&T Wireless to create a commercial message designed to raise autism awareness and educate viewers of the importance of early detection, timed to coincide with the end of Autism Awareness Month.

Four 15 second spots that air sequentially combine to form a story arc of a child growing up with autism. Three of those spots also acts as ads for Band-Aid, Campbell’s Soup, and AT&T. Following the last spot, which features a recent graduate and his proud parents, played by a real autism sufferer and his parents (who appear in the other ads as well), the sequence concludes with the message, “You just saw how early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference.  Watch again or learn the signs at www.autismspeaks.org/signs.” This sequence is scheduled to air one time today on the CNN program New Day, and will then live online at YouTube and the Autism Speaks website, with a digital extension expected to run courtesy of Undertone. continued…

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