After a seven-year run, a local digital marketing firm is joining forces with a younger contemporary.
Glen Allen, Manchester firms to merge
Media/Marketing/Advertising
Will the real Coleman Sweeney please stand up?
An obscenity-titled marketing campaign for a local organ donor advocacy group is turning heads on West Broad Street, and online. But the real Coleman Sweeney isn’t really a bad guy.
Getting the brand back together
A UR and Brandcenter alum with a mind for the music business is starting an agency aimed at helping bands and artists strike a chord with fans.
Sports site breaks off from Chester newspaper
Linked by a love of sports, a business manager, a veteran sportswriter and a social media junkie are calling the plays at a startup news site focused on local high school athletics. RVA GameBreak, launched last fall by Elliott Fausz and Josh Mathews of Chester’s Village News, has brought in Thomas Dozier as a third… Read more »
Studio turns cameras toward Rocketts Landing
A longtime Richmond production studio has set up shop near Rocketts Landing after decades in the Southside. BES Studios has moved into its new space in a building it purchased at 5711 Old Osborne Turnpike, just across city limits in eastern Henrico County. Owner Christi Garrett purchased the 13,600-square-foot building and nearly 8-acre property last… Read more »
Creative Q&A: Don Just
Where other industry observers see Richmond’s ad scene as a hub of creativity, Don Just sees potential yet to be fully realized. The Brandcenter professor and former CEO of The Martin Agency provided a different perspective of Richmond’s creative community when BizSense talked with him last month, just weeks after his induction into the… Read more »
The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 5.31.16
Barber Martin’s new CCO assembles a local team to produce TV spots for a “lucky” client, the Brandcenter celebrates creative problem-solving, and The Martin Agency picks up more national recognition in a busy month for local shops.
Auto-focused ad shop rolls into town
Another national ad agency has set up shop in Richmond, this one with a focus on clients that deal in wheels. Dallas-based Wheeler Advertising opened an office in the Moorefield office park off Midlothian Turnpike last month. The agency signed a two-year lease for a 2,300-square-foot space at 812 Moorefield Park Drive. The office adds… Read more »
Social media for breakfast
A local blogger, adjunct professor and recent president of the Richmond Ad Club is starting her own firm focused on online PR and social media strategy. Christina Dick recently launched TFB Agency, a consulting practice to help clients improve their online presence and reach potential customers through social media, blogs and other techniques. Named for… Read more »
Tattoo campaign tops PR awards; local exec honored
A local agency’s campaign for a Japanese tattoo exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts swept the best-in-show awards at this year’s Virginia Public Relations Awards. Ndp’s campaign last year for the “Japanese Tattoo: Perseverance, Art, and Tradition” exhibit won both the Capital Best in Show and the Commonwealth Best in Show – a… Read more »