Advertising: FleishmanHillard Rebrands Itself, With a 21st Century Focus

FleishmanHillard, founded in 1946, is expanding to offer services like advertising and social media marketing in addition to public relations.

    

Media Decoder: The Economist Looks to Colleges for New Readers

The new campaign is primarily digitally based and builds on the fact that many new readers first learn about the magazine from a professor or parent.

    

Advertising: Trying to Burnish Its Image, Johnson & Johnson Turns to Emotions

Johnson & Johnson’s new campaign, called For All You Love, aims at reviving its tarnished brand.

    

Advertising: Green Works Aims to Get Out of the Niche

A marketing overhaul for the environmentally friendly housecleaning product leads to lower prices and a new promotion strategy.

    

Campaign Spotlight: There’s No Place Like a New Home, Ads Assert

A new campaign sponsored by a group of home builders touts the myriad benefits to consumers of making their next “new home” one that is completely new.

    

Webdenda: Webdenda

American Association of Advertising Agencies, New York, is joining with units of the McCann Worldgroup to sponsor a contest that will seek ideas to help market the ad industry to a broader audience.

Advertising: Social Marketing Drives a New York Renaissance

Marketers are being drawn to digital realms like social media, in which agencies in New York — home to Silicon Alley as well as Madison Avenue — are increasingly proficient.

Ghost Beach Band Debates Piracy on Times Square Billboard

The Brooklyn band Ghost Beach addresses the debate over music piracy in a big way: on an LED billboard above the American Eagle Outfitters store in Times Square.

Advertising: Gillette Promotes a New Shaver Using QR Codes

Gillette is promoting a new shaving tool for a man’s beard, chest and back by having women express their varying opinions about how much hair a man should have.

Advertising: Lowe’s Campaign Keeps Eye on the Weather

The big retailer’s new ads for the spring, a critical shopping season for home improvement stores, try to capitalize on the rising housing market.

Advertising: Degree Deodorant Introduces Unisex Ad Campaign

Eight years after dividing into Degree Men and Degree Women, the Degree brand of deodorant is advertising its products under one creative umbrella.

Advertising: In San Francisco, a Thriving Advertising Agency Start-Up Scene

The San Francisco ad market is being influenced by the entrepreneurial spirit of nearby Silicon Valley, with agency employees going into business for themselves.

Webdenda: Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising Industry

Kim Corrigan joined the New York office of Rosetta, part of the Publicis Groupe, in a new post, partner in the health care vertical.

News From the Advertising Industry

Account assignments, executive appointments and miscellaneous news from advertising agencies.