"GM also recently opened up Cadillac for review. Boston-based Modernista has had the account since it was stripped from the Troy office of Leo Burnett in 2006. Leo Burnett won't say if it will bid on its old account, estimated to be worth about $225 million.

The GM/C-E news comes on the heels of Chrysler and Omnicom Group’s BBDO potentially parting ways in 2010, possibly ending a relationship that began in the 1950s. BBDO has about 450 staffers in a Troy office, all working on Chrysler. Less than a decade ago, it was about 1,200 people locally. Some of the work is also done from BBDO’s New York City office.

Some of the Chrysler account work [[total measured media was $1 billion-ish last year) has already been pieced off — San Francisco-based Publicis & Hal Riney, Dallas-based Richards Group and [[fortunately for the Detroit ad world) Southfield-based GlobalHue."
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I've noticed that much of the advertising work that's been moved from Detroit ad agencies has moved to agencies that are located in cities [[not suburbs like the Detroit agencies). Is there a connection between being located in an urban location and creativity, particularly as it applies to ad agencies? Do you think that creative types are stifled by being out in the suburbs or are they more productive in urban centers? Is there any connection in particular between auto industry work moving away from suburban agencies towards urban ones [[seemingly) or is this just a random occurrence as it relates to Detroit? Are ad agencies in other major cities [[Chicago, NY, Boston, SF, etc.) located in the suburbs or is this a Detroit phenomenon? Finally, is there any chance that any of the Detroit agencies will relocate to downtown Detroit?