Media/Marketing/Advertising

A newcomer to the Richmond advertising scene is making its entrance to the market through a pair of Golden Arches. San Francisco-based H&L Partners has set up shop in Shockoe Bottom after picking up the regional co-op account for McDonald’s. The local office adds to others in St. Louis and Boston, with a fifth office… Read more »

Shockoe Slip became ping pong central last Friday, as a segment of Richmond’s creative industry turned their mutual love of table tennis into a charitable cause. The inaugural Shockoe Showdown Ping Pong Tournament took place over three hours in four different locations in the Slip, culminating with a final round at WorldView Solutions’ new space… Read more »

Nearly two years after losing one of its big sponsors, a Glen Allen concert series has a new, longer moniker thanks to a recently signed naming rights deal. Innsbrook After Hours, which puts on a string of shows each year at its 5-acre facility at 4901 Lake Brook Drive, is now known as the “Bud… Read more »

When Quincy Cherry arrived in Richmond last year, the New York native wasn’t sure if he was done with his 20-year career in advertising and marketing. Burned out on New York, where he led 16 different creative teams in three different cities as senior VP and chief creative officer for Brooklyn-based Uniworld Group, Cherry explored… Read more »

The local chapter of a national design association is hosting a one-day conference aimed at growing creative businesses. AIGA Richmond is putting on Position, a conference this Saturday that will involve networking and presentations by speakers from around the country. The Martin Agency, Adobe, Skillshare and Shuttershock are among the event’s sponsors, and speakers include… Read more »

Keeping step with its neighbor and industry peer, a recent addition to Shockoe Bottom is broadening its marketing focus with a new name and division devoted to small businesses. Red Orange Studio, formerly Red Orange Design, has launched Slice, an internal division aimed at providing packaged design and marketing services for small business clients. The… Read more »

When the staff at ndp found out their agency’s founders had been named Ad Persons of the Year by the Richmond Ad Club, they had life-size cutouts made up of the duo that, for the first time in their 32-year partnership, put Susan Dubuque and Roger Neathawk at the same height. “She’s finally as tall… Read more »

A neighboring studio’s expansion to the Boulevard is freeing up space for a Shockoe Slip ad giant to grow. The Martin Agency is subleasing the entire second floor of the building that houses production studio Park Group at 23 S. 13th St., directly across East Cary Street from Martin’s Shockoe Plaza headquarters. The space will… Read more »

The ties came off and the amps were turned up to 11 at the inaugural Battle of the Corporate Bands on Sunday.

Tonight, two Brandcenter alums will be swimming with the sharks. Van Gould and Chris Sheldon, 2012 graduates of the VCU advertising and branding school, will appear on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” which airs at 9 p.m. The duo will be pitching their product, the “NoPhone,” to the competition show’s panel of successful entrepreneurs. NoPhone is a… Read more »