pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/zunephone.jpg” width=”340″ height=”500″ /Advertising firm McCann Erickson has won a lucrative advertising contract with Microsoft, beating out CrispiBLAH BLAH BLAH the point is, peoplemdash;emZune advertising people/emmdash;are now talking emon record/em about Microsoft’s “Pink” project, and gearing up to promote it./p pFrom a href=”http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/account-activity/e3i38d17fe532245c82a9c7afcaf4ad0e57″Adweek/a:br / blockquoteThe Office shift follows a pitch for a new Microsoft mobile offering won by McCann’s T.A.G. unit, said sources. JWT, McCann and fellow roster shop Crispin, Porter + Bogusky competed for that assignment, for which the client used the code-name Pink./p/blockquote pIt’s a nice confirmation of previous rumors that Microsoft was a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5212222/microsofts-prepping-advertising-for-zune+on+phone-software”shopping the project around/a, and that’s about the end of the new information. But a quick trip to the McCann T.A.G. a href=”http://www.tagsf.com/”site/a reveals a portfolio that contains three videos for the Zune, including two ads and a trade reel. Zune? Pink? a href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/zune-phone”Zunephone/a! Pinkphone! a href=”http://gizmodo.com/246377/pink-zune-confirmed-for-may-release”Pink Zune/a! Pink a class=”autolink” title=”Click here […]

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