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Our work for Dean College won 3 awards in 24th Annual Admission Marketing Report Advertising Awards! All our awards were won in the category of colleges with less than 2000 students:
–Wardrobe/Sweatshirt print ad won a Gold/1st prize in the print ad category
–The TV spot won a Bronze/3rd prize in the television category
–We’re Not Harvard [...]

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Jimmy John’s delivers! Fast! The culture at Jimmy John’s is fun and irreverent, but you always know they’re going to get the job done.  Which is exactly where the concepts for these four new spots came from.  They’re a fresh take on how Jimmy John’s get their fresh sandwiches wherever they’re needed. If they can [...]

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JUNE 25 – JJ Shoot – Day 2
Early start to the day. Need to be in Griffith Park to shoot a spot featuring a guy who’s trapped in a car after coming off a road. The section of road we’re using is high in the hills above LA. It’s tinderbox dry, and there’s a real [...]

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JUNE 24 – JJ Shoot – Day 1.
After weeks of preparation the time finally had arrived to shoot the first of our Jimmy Johns TV commercials. It’s going to be a crazy couple of days – 4 spots in 2 days.
The first location is situated in a parking garage in Downtown Los Angeles.  We have [...]

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JUNE 22 Flight back out to LA.
One of the tougher parts of working away from home is that you still have to contend with matters that occur at home, whether it’s work, family, or transvestite prostitutes setting fire to your scooter at 5am in the morning. It’s tough to leave home knowing that someone needs [...]

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JUNE 16
Today is callbacks to review the actors for our Jimmy John’s commercials. Plus we get to meet our selected Director Greg Popp in person. We’ve  been talking to Greg for a couple of weeks so it’s always interesting to meet and put a face to the name. Greg’s an ex-agency guy, so he gets [...]

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