November 14, 2005
BMW Ad Contract Goes to GSD&M
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Kudos to GSD&M, local Austin advertising firm that was responsible for the "We're Texas" ad campaign (which you can watch here) which just won BMW's $75 million dollar ad contract for North America.
AAS: GSD&M employees were celebrating Monday night at the company's headquarters on West Sixth Street, with a German band playing in the background while BMW and agency executives made the announcement.
"They don't call Austin the live music capital of the world for nothing, if we can get an oompah band on short notice," said Roy Spence, president and co-founder of GSD&M.
Though I'm not certain if getting an oompah band on any notice is something I'd want to be able to do...heh.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at November 14, 2005 07:36 PM
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I suppose it's about time to fire up those Roy Spence rumors again...
Now seriously were you just trying to get to that one before Baby Snooks had a shot?
Baby Snooks is out having shots. Heh.
See what happens when you don't read all the comments on all the posts? People take pot shots at you.
I thought you took a bowl of pot, not a shot of it.
I do not do drugs. I probably should. But I don't.
BREAKING NEWS: FogartyKlein in Houston just hired more telephone surveyors!
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GSD&M VIOLATES LOCAL RESOLUTION
CodePink Responds: “Don’t Mess with Texas’” KIDS!
GSD&M, Austin’s homegrown, hip ad agency, is in the midst of a 7-year $350,000,000 contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and says it plans to apply for, and expects to receive, another 7 year contract in 2007, despite the peace community’s appeals otherwise. Along with UT, CSC-DynCorp, Raytheon, Halliburton/KBR, Boeing and Humana, GSD&M tops the list of Pentagon contractors in Austin. This contract is in direct violation of not only their mission statement that “… we’re all in this together,” but of the City of Austin’s “City for Peace” Resolution passed in February, 2003. 1
GSD&M has created several rounds of TV ads since 2001 with feel-good images of children growing into a well-heeled soldiers, such as a boy with a paper plane growing up to be a young man remotely controlling USAF predator drones. But we know how the story ends. GSD&M’s “cross into the blue” campaign takes on a whole new meaning now that, to date, 1,942 U.S. soldiers, 198 coalition soldiers and 100,000+ Iraqis have perished in our effort to illegally occupy their land.
Again this helps the american auto industry labor movement how?
All the Halliburton execs will be able to buy new BMW 760 ILs which will put more money, eventually, into laborers' pockets. Don't you know anything about economic theory? Trickle down works! Better at the top than at the bottom, but hey, this is America. Land of capitalists and crooks. And the slightly corrupt.
KT, what does this have to do with anything? just curious.
It's Austin. It's GSD&M (the S is Roy Spence who is really loved by the comment threads to mention as a Gubernatorial candidate). It's former UT people winning on for the city. They made the UT ads. They mentioned Oompah, I'm German.
This is a blog about News, Politica, and Fun.
In the context of this blog? Quite appropriate. :)
Baby Snooks:
"I do not do drugs. I probably should. But I don't. "
"Poppers" count as drugs you moron.
"All the Halliburton execs will be able to buy new BMW 760 ILs which will put more money, eventually, into laborers' pockets. Don't you know anything about economic theory? Trickle down works! Better at the top than at the bottom, but hey, this is America. Land of capitalists and crooks. And the slightly corrupt."
Michael Moore owns Halliburton stock. Does that make him a "crooked capitalist?" Hhhmmmmmmmm?
