Rob Bell

Camille Norman, an experienced media buyer at Little Rock advertising agencies, has joined Eric Rob & Isaac as the marketing firm’s media director. read more >

Arkansas advertising executives generally agree morale issues in their industry are real, and several said their agencies are confronting them. read more >

Advertising man Rob Bell knows what it’s like to be a creative middle-schooler. Growing up in Searcy, he and Isaac Alexander produced their first TV spot as a seventh-grade project. It was a VHS film for a reading class unit on propaganda, and it celebrated their new invention, an inflatable, portable toilet called the Quickie. read more >

CJRW has been roiled by staff defections recently, departures that have left the state’s largest ad agency increasingly dependent on its big clients, the biggest being the Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism worth $8.4 million this year. read more >