-My old cohort Doug MacMillan discusses Mark Zuckerberg. link

-W+K London alum Rob Steiner has joined up with CP+B’s U.K. operation as head of production.

-Ah, so this is what happens when producers unite (above). link

-Ben Silverman‘s Electus has launched a new reality show on its “Loud” YouTube channel. link

-Adam Kmiec was promoted to the newly created position of director, digital marketing and social media at Campbell Soup Company.

-Yep, a band picked up a hitchhiking John Waters. link

-So, is Facebook set to price its IPO or what? link

-Apparently, online ad manager ranks as one of top 20 “great jobs” minus a college degree. link

Create a social media strategy and learn from the biggest names in social media in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Jen Brown (TODAY.com), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.

Now that we’ve covered a couple of WPP units in Grey and JWT, let’s move on to another holding company, shall we? In this episode of “Cubes,” we tour the worldwide headquarters of IPG Mediabrands, the media holding company responsible for $34 billion in global revenue from advertising agencies such as Universal McCann. IPG’s work includes the Geico Gecko and Volkswagen’s pint-sized Darth Vader.

The IPG headquarters is home to a cutting-edge media lab full of Minority Report-esque marketing technology, and the office includes a high-tech workspace dubbed “the desk of the future” and a skyway stretching over 32nd Street that was once used by the Gimbels department story, the building’s previous tenant.

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Tipsters have been buzzing over the last few hours that Tribal DDB and Clorox’s relationship has come to an end. Tribal would not comment on the matter, but their relationship spans a few years, with the agency’s San Francisco office handling said client’s brands including Glad and Tilex. One tipster alleges that Tribal SF’s San Fran staff will now be absorbed by the DDB network, but once we find out more, we’ll let you know. We’ve also reached out to Clorox itself, so stay tuned if need be.

And in as the world turns news, a week after we reported that Marty Cooke left the agency now known as RAPP, word come through that husband/wife team Wayne and Kim Pick were named executive creative directors of its New York office.The Picks have transferred from RAPP’s New Zealand branch, which handled accounts such as Adidas, VW, Häagen Dazs, Hewlett-Packard, Olay, McDonald’s and Nike, among others.

 

Oh, let’s bring it, strut, shuffle and all with a new campaign from Saatchi & Saatchi London, which gives us the “James Brown Challenge.” The goal of the agency’s rather formidable effort is to meld filmmaking and music while also celebrating the man that serenaded Apollo Creed in Rocky IV. Damn you, Drago. For those interested, you have four tracks from the godfather of soul to choose from, create a full-length video around it and June 25 to complete it. Saatchi is no stranger to the music mashup game, as we call recall the agency’s efforts to promote Moby last year.

Those rapscallions at Boulder-based TDA are at it again, this time launching a new campaign for Sir Richard’s, the condom brand that kicked off its launch by giving us wild postings in NYC nearly 18 months ago and is now honoring National Women’s Health Week with “Vagina Rules.” To be specific, TDA’s effort calls on the ladies to offer “rules about what they won’t put in their vagina” to raise awareness for the lesser-known chemicals that are often found in condoms and lubricant, including spermicide, parabens, and glycerin. You can check out an image from the campaign below or go to the website for info. San Francisco, Denver and Austin, meanwhile, can expect Sir Richard’s wild postings of their own in the near future. Credits after the jump.

 

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“Circulo Creativo Latino de Estados Unidos” is an organization that seeks to increase and foster interaction between US-based Hispanic creatives. This year, the CCLEU held a competition that asked young creatives to create a PSA of sorts encouraging eligible members to join the organization, with the winning entry earning its creators an all-expenses paid trip to the Cannes Lions Festival.

The winning entry (above) comes from art director Said Fayad and copywriter Marc Duran, two employees at Wing, a WPP-owned subsidiary of Grey that specializes in work that targets a Latino audience. “We’re Better Together” is a phrase contrasted with probably the worse piece of three-word advice any movie character can take, the infamous “let’s split up.” Maybe best made fun of in Joss Whedon‘s recent horror/satire Cabin in the Woods, “let’s split up” never works out for the would-be victims of film.

Sure, one could argue that Fayad’s and Duran’s spot’s effectiveness relies on borrowed interest from the various films and TV shows it features. But, for pop-culture and horror movie buffs (I’m looking at you, Kiran), identifying where each clip originates is what makes “We’re Better Together” so much fun.

You might know Rich Siegel, the former Y&R and Chiat creative director/current scribe behind the “Round Seventeen” blog who we’ve linked to in the past (remember this or this?). Anyhow, the advertising veteran is taking his talents to the pond, as he’s launched a new site announcing his efforts to swim across the English Channel to help out the “Wounded Warriors” project, in turn helping out troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. As the copy states, Siegel will take to water during Memorial Day weekend. Best of luck, sir.

 

 

Sources familiar with the matter confirm that Ashley Swartz is no longer with Digitas, which appointed her nearly two-and-a-half years ago as SVP of its New York office and tasked her with leading initiatives on the Samsung business. Most recently, Swartz took the lead on the Publicis Groupe agency’s iTV practice. Prior to Digitas, Swartz spent time as an MD at PHD and worked at the likes of Double Fusion and Sony Ericsson.

 

-Massachusetts agency Allen & Gerritsen has welcomed Arnold/Hill Holliday alum Megan O’Connell as senior art director as well as Liz Paquette as marketing manager.

-Speaking of senior ADs, Vladimir Jones welcomed a new one. link

-The Spikes Asia 2012 fest is now open for entries. link

-Former R/GA San Francisco ACD Yasmin Nestlen joined SapientNitro as associate director, experience design.

-A Russian mag decides to out “Parking Douches” (above). link

-The IAB published something called the “Mobile Phone Shopping Diaries.” link