Both times the bar beat the agency back.
"Private equity will beat out ad agencies if the agencies don't do it," insists Andrew Berlin, who runs a collection of small ad shops owned by the WPP Group.
Moreover, as the recent fencing between Mr. Pitt and Mr. Spitzer has shown, hesitancy on the part of the S.E.C. could actually yield tougher rules for Wall Street and corporate America, if other regulators or Congress steal a beat on the agency.
None of the online agencies beat the price I came up with, $3,070, for a week at The Boulders, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, the week leading up to Easter.
Podesta said Republicans' "brow-beating" of the agency in that time should have made it clear to him that they would use his letter to hurt her candidacy with just 10 days to the election.
The image was devised by the Refinery, a Burbank ad agency that beat out three other firms.
But when it came to putting an iPhone into space, the Geissbühlers of Brooklyn beat the mighty space agency to it.
Supporters say it is an auspicious time to have two cops on the financial beat — after all, the agency, which subsumed the existing Banking and Insurance Departments, came into being as the Occupy Wall Street movement was finding its footing and focusing its critique on those very industries.
Spike DDB beat out five other agencies because of the focus on children's candor.
And Artustry "just beat out" two large agencies for "a major assignment," Mr. Sklaver said, to help create an identity and image for a new company being formed from PricewaterhouseCoopers to be named Unifi Network.
Mark Wright, 25, became the latest winner of The Apprentice on Sunday night, landing a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar in his digital marketing agency after beating 19 other would-be entrepreneurs in the BBC1 competition.
