Here's something to do with that crappy ad trophy

From what I can tell, most of my fellow ad bloggers have missed the "hot" story of youarefallon.com. The copy about this site that was emailed to me reads as follows: "In celebration of all those who put 'The work, above all' in the last 26 years, Fallon is asking you to donate an award that you won during your time at Fallon. In a symbolic ceremony, the awards collected will be melted to create the WE ARE FALLON copperplate, which will be mounted at the entrance of our new building. To learn more, go to YouAreFallon.com." According to the "Who Has Donated?" link on the site, people are really contributing stuff: 73 awards have been contributed so far including seven Cannes Lions (two Grand Prix!), and, from David Lubars, the 2001 O'Toole Award for Best Agency. I was thinking this was a hoax, but maybe not.

Is your agency on Wikipedia? BBDO is.

Thought it might be interesting to see which agencies rate an entry on Wikipedia, and if your agency doesn't have one, better get cracking. I'm not saying that Wikipedia entries are the be-all- and-end-all, but since agencies tend to be fairly miserable at self-promotion, particularly in the digital realm, might be something you'd at least want to check in on in case a new business prospect gets misled by all of the shite printed out there about agencies. So here's the first in an ongoing series of what Wikipedia is saying about you. First up in alphabetical order—BBDO, because Arnold didn't seem to have one. Someone (or someones?) has been spending a lot of time on the shop's entry, which befits an agency that goes back to the 1920s (or 1891, depending on how you count it). There are even bios of the agency's founders. However, there is a 13-year gap in the last two entries about the agency's history. It only mentions 1994, when the shop was named Agency of the Year by Adweek and Ad Age, and then skips to 2007, when, gee whiz, the agency won another bunch of awards. No mentions in the intervening years of Cindy Crawford, David Lubars, or Andrew Robertson. Not a bad page, but it needs some work.