Florence Buchanan and Karen McIntyre, both formerly of Deutsch, New York, have come aboard BBDO New York as creative directors.
“Florence and Karen bring a great blend of expertise across a broad range of categories from beauty to travel and entertainment,” said Bill Bruce, chief creative officer, BBDO New York. “We’re excited to offer their progressive style, forward-thinking and independent spirit to our clients.”
Buchanan and McIntyre first joined forces at Deutsch while working on accounts such as Almay, US Weekly as well as Westin and Sheraton hotels. While at Deutsch they helped make Almay’s “Intense i-color” one of the most successful color cosmetic launches of 2005 and created the first TV campaign for US Weekly, to increase readership among younger women. In addition, Buchanan helped devise the sensual, black-and-white “Modern Luxury” campaign that relaunched the Westin brand. Prior to Deutsch, Buchanan was a partner and creative director at JWT New York and McIntyre was a senior partner, associate creative director at Ogilvy & Mather, New York.
Most recently, the duo completed its first independent short film, Shepherds, that is currently making the rounds at film festivals both nationally and internationally.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
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