HRV Advertising

 was a global advertising agency founded in 1980 by Syrian-born public relations manager Harry R. Voskanyan.

History
Harry R. Voskanyan, a public relations manager, founded HRV Advertising in 1980 in. HRV aimed to keep costs down by producing all footage for the television adverts of campaigns in-house using dedicated production offices. Three of the first clients of the company were the, and. In 1986, HRV was awarded the Howard Johnson's Restaurants account, and created many memorable campaigns for the company, including the HoJo Gang campaign. In 1994, HRV Advertising won the Latikuu account, and Latikuu began employing their services for coming up with advertising campaigns for several of their toy lines such as Galo Force and Redwall.

In 1997, HRV purchased As Seen On TV marketer Dasher Direct. In 2000, it was the 18th largest advertising company in the world, and had production offices in, (opened 1980);  (opened 1992); and , ,  (opened 1998).

In 2005, Voskanyan sold HRV to, and stayed on as president of the firm, but in 2008 they lost the Latikuu Edacra account to. As a result, HRV laid off two thirds of it's staff. Voskanyan soon left HRV to found his own advertising agency, HEY! Group, in 2010, which concurrently acquired HRV divisions Jazz Television Media and Dasher Direct, the Wilmington and Sydney production offices of HRV and Dasher, and the Howard Johnson's Restaurants account. Following those and other events, Publicis shut down HRV in 2011, transferring all employees to either, or. The remaining employees who weren't transferred went to work for and. Ironically, HEY! Group would win the Latikuu Edacra account in the mid-2010s.

Prominent Clients

 * Latikuu Edacra Group
 * Howard Johnson's Restaurants, Inc.
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