CP+B Partners with 2K for NBA 2K Franchise

CP+BCP+B announced today that has partnered with 2K to launch the next edition of their long-running  basketball simulation video game franchise, NBA 2K. Santa Monica-based CP+B LA won creative duties following a competitive pitch process and will roll out an integrated marketing campaign starting in September for the next iteration of the franchise, NBA 2K15. The campaign will include TV, digital, social media and more.

NBA 2K continues to break new ground in interactive entertainment and culture, and has even bigger plans for the future,” said Mason Reed, EVP/Managing Director, CP+B LA. “We couldn’t be more excited to help them along the journey.”

You may recall that the account previously belonged to Zambezi, which ran this “Michael Jordan Uncensored” series last year.

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CP+B Appoints New MDs in Boulder, Miami

cpbwhalen1It’s been a busy day it seems at camp Crispin as the MDC-owned agency has promoted two of its veteran staffers to role of managing director in separate offices. In Boulder, 10-year vet Danielle Whalen, who most recently served as EVP/group account director on  Applebee’s and Fruit of the Loom, has assumed the MD role. Whalen originally joined CP+B in 1999 as an account manager supervisor, but left two years later and then rejoined the agency in ’04 to help lead the Burger King business. During that heyday, the agency produced such efforts as, yes, Subservient Chicken and subsequently award-winning campaigns like Whopper Freakout. In addition to BK, Whalen has also worked on Old Navy.

Joining Whalen in MD status is Carter Nance, a fellow EVP/group account director who’s been with CP+B since 1999 who currently oversees Domino’s and VitaminWater and will now take on the new role in the Miami office.

We’ve been told these are new positions and as a result of the move, CP+B fills out its MD posts in Boulder, Miami and L.A., the last of which has been assumed by Mason Reed since spring 2012. With the goal being to move to “a more decentralized structure,”  CP+B president Steve Erich says, “Danielle, Carter and Mason are three amazingly strong account leaders who all started in the Miami office over ten years ago, fully embody the beliefs of CP+B and understand the power of great creative product. They will work with their individual offices, as well as the collective agency, to drive our client businesses and the performance of CP+B.”

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