
Crispin (also formerly known as Crispin Porter + Bogusky), a member of publicly traded
MDC Partners, is an American advertising agency that employed around 150 people. It was founded in 1965 by Sam Crispin. Crispin then became partners with
Chuck Porter and
Alex Bogusky.
The agency was founded in
Miami, FL where it had its headquarters until the relocation to
Boulder, CO and subsequently
Denver
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in 2021. Additional offices are in
Coconut Grove, Florida;
Los Angeles, California
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;
London, England
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;
São Paulo, Brazil
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;
Gothenburg
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;
Stockholm, Sweden
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;
Copenhagen, Denmark;
Hong Kong, China; and
Beijing, China
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.
CP+B Europe opened its doors in June, 2009 after acquiring Swedish agency Daddy, based in
Gothenburg, Sweden. Mark Simmons was Managing Director of its Los Angeles office from 2002 to 2004. In July, 2010, CP+B Canada opened after acquiring the Toronto-based agency Zig.
CP+B experienced rapid growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s, achieving notoriety on the strength of work for
Burger King
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,
BMW MINI, and anti-smoking campaign
TheTruth.com.
Sally Hogshead worked for the company at this time, and opened Crispin Porter + Bogusky's
Venice, California
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Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, whe ...
office.
The agency’s current client list includes
Domino's Pizza
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,
Infiniti
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,
American Airlines
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,
PayPal
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,
Hotels.com,
Hulu
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,
Goose Island Brewery, and
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese.
They are known for using
viral marketing
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techniques, including the Burger King
Subservient Chicken and Whopper Sacrifice campaigns. In September 2008, the agency created a television spot for Microsoft featuring
Jerry Seinfeld
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and
Bill Gates
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that received negative media attention. The '
I'm a PC
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' campaign that followed fought back against
Apple's Mac vs. PC campaign and contributed to Windows 7 becoming the fastest selling version of Windows to date.
In March 2010, Andrew Keller, Rob Reilly and Jeff Benjamin were promoted to chief creative officers. , CP+B’s leadership includes: Chuck Porter, chairman; Lori Senecal, Co-Global CEO; Erik Sollenberg, Co-Global CEO; Linus Karlsson, Global Chief Creative Officer; Danielle Aldrich, President of CP+B West, which includes Boulder and LA; Ralph Watson, chief creative officer in Boulder; and Kevin Jones, chief creative officer in Los Angeles.
CP+B has been named "Agency of the Year" 13 times in the trade press. On December 15, 2008, CP+B was named
Creativity's agency of the year. They were also named
Adweek's 2008 U.S. Agency of the year.
In December 2009, CP+B was named ''
Advertising Age
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'' Agency of the Decade and ''Boards'' magazine's Agency of the Year.
In 2010, CP+B was named Interactive Agency of the year at the
Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
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, the third time the agency has won the award since 2005.
References
External links
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