Doner Media

WHAT: Doner employees got into the Halloween spirit with their annual pumpkin carving contest. With the most creative minds in advertising accepting the challenge, Doner employees quickly carved, poked, painted and sculpted their designs within the one-hour time limit.  Seventeen teams designed pumpkins that range from Octomom in labor; to a glowing Coleman campfire made out of pumpkins; and the famous scene from The Shining. The contest is currently on display, and online employee voting began noon on Wednesday. The winners will be announced at our Trick ‘O Treat event at 4 p.m. on Thursday.

WHERE: Doner Advertising, 25900 Northwestern Highway, Southfield MI.

WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 28 – Thursday, Oct. 29: Pumpkins will be on display.
Thursday, Oct. 29 at 4 p.m.: Trick O’Treat event with Doner employee children and announcement of pumpkin carving contest winners.

DONER? YES, DONER WINS MIXX AWARD

(Southfield, Mich.) – Doner was awarded a bronze MIXX Award for its Coleman Lantern and Creepy Campfire Tales iPhone applications for The Coleman Company’s “Original Social Networking Site” campaign. Doner received the honor in the mobile platforms category at the MIXX Awards Gala on Sept. 22 in New York City during Advertising Week. The agency’s “33 Keys” alternate reality game for Mazda was a finalist in the social marketing category. (more…)

Doner today announced a strategic partnership with Eyeblaster for its digital campaign management in a bid to more effectively harness the micro-targeting potential of digital media for its clients. The move coincides with the launch of MediaMind, the first agency-based solution built from the ground up. Eyeblaster will unveil MediaMind on Sept. 21 at OMMA Global in New York. (more…)

Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) has selected Doner as its creative promotion agency. The announcement follows a competitive review among the country’s top-tier agencies. (more…)

We have some great news about our creative group.

We are proud to announce that Brian Born and Chuck Meehan have joined us as creative directors for our Newport Beach office. Brian and Chuck bring diverse creative experience and a trophy case of award hardware to the agency. In joining us, they reunite as partners. They’ll help expand the Newport Beach office as an autonomous, creative outpost and help build the agency’s West Coast presence and clientele.

Also, Doner veteran Sheldon Cohn has moved into a new position, as executive vice president-director of content innovation. This new role expands our relationships with content producers to identify and create opportunistic content for the agency’s client brands. Kurt Kulas will succeed Sheldon as director of integrated production from senior vice president-integrated production.

These changes round out our creative leadership that Rob has attracted from all over in a little more than a year to overhaul our creative ranks and better serve up integrated and digital content.

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