News

-So, who’s really going to watch the Grammys this Sunday? link

-Jeff Scruton, who not so long ago parted ways with MJZ after 17 years, has joined up with Motion Theory (now known as Mth) as president/EP.

-Do you want to get a Red Bull athlete’s autograph (to be honest, we haven’t heard of a lot of them)? Well, look no further. link

-LinkedIn has mobile ad plans in its sights this year. link

 

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-Jeff Goodby Sends Us a Note Regarding Staff Cuts

-The Most ‘Controversial’ Spot This Year Was for Yogurt

-CP+B, Coke Zero Lobby to Make Day After Super Bowl a National Holiday

-Presenting Matthew Broderick’s Day Off

-University of Phoenix Ready to Review

-Won’t You Be W+K’s Valentine?

-Op-Ed: CES is a Waste of Time for Agencies

-Absolut partnered with Gorillaz c0-founder Jamie Hewlett to create “Absolut London” (above). link

-The Telluride Tourism Board locked Denver-based Cultivator Advertising & Design on a three-year AOR deal.

-An NFL fantasy football ad based on texting scored big during and after the Super Bowl. link

-According to research, the iPad retains value longer than Kindle. link

-W+K alum Matt Follows joined Clemenger BBDO Sydney as a creative director. link

-GSD&M offers us a SXSW survival guide. Could be useful, attendees. link

-Perfect Fools and Hasan & Partners offer us “Kauko,” which is purported to be the world’s first internet-controlled cafe (above). link

-For those not feeling Valentine’s Day (and we’re sure there’s more than a few), here’s a site for you. link

- New York/San Francisco-based prodco Bodega signed director and one-time JWT and DDB creative Dave Merhar for commercial representation.

-Zeno Group helped Seattle’s Best Coffee launch a “yearlong marketing program” that includes a Facebook app. link

-Smith Brothers Agency welcomed former Draftfcb management supervisor Courtney Mortimer as account director in its San Francisco office.

-Ernst & Young launched a global media review. link

-Did you take part in today’s Apple protest? link

-Domino’s has launched a digital/direct review in the U.K. link

-In today’s odd couple pairing, Slash and Betty White team up to promote a new “LAIR” exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo as part of a campaign from Allen & Gerritsen (above).

-The Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation picked local shop LevLane as its strategic marketing and communications firm.

-Publicis Groupe says the GM media account accounted for only 0.5 percent of its business. link

-Look for a complete Arby’s relaunch, ads, logo, menu and all, in Q3. link

-Apple will announce the iPad 3 in March. link

-PMH and fellow Minneapolis-based operation Pixel Farm collaborate on a new campaign for Mattel’s Barbie (above). link

-GigaOM and paidContent have now joined forces. link

-Anomaly is opening up shop in Toronto. link

-Have you seen Google’s Chrome for Android beta clip yet? link

-Susan Credle, Pete Favat and Andrew Keller are among the familiar names in the 2012 AICP Show Curatorial Committee. link

-Carter Murray is taking over for Tom Sebok as Y&R New York CEO. As part of Y&R global CEO David Sable‘s restructuring of the Big Apple branch, BrandBuzz will also be merged back into Y&R NY and Wunderman Seattle’s Sean Howard will be moving to the NY office to serve as GM.

-Publicis & Hal Riney and Mullen are the final two combatants for the U.S. Cellular biz. link

-Lee Clow and other L.A. agency folks share the spotlight in a pub called Our South Bay. link

-McDonald’s shamrock shake is going national. link

-Viacom and Amazon are close to forming an alliance against Netflix, too. link

-Bell Canada is giving five cents towards mental illness every time this tweet is RT’d. link

-BBH New York is helping BBC viewers “Touch the Stars” in a new campaign promoting the network’s iPlayer iPad app (above). link

-Massachusetts-based firm Rice McVaney Communications opened up an office in Redmond, WA and hired Goodby alum Nick Gesualdi to run it.

-PepsiCo’s digital/social media director Bonin Bough is leaving for a gig at Kraft. link

-Pinterest is blowing up according to comScore. link

 

-Sonic and Mario get the royal treatment in a new campaign from Duncan/Channon (above). link

-So how does Lewys Carlini, GM of North Platte, Nebraska station KNOP, really feel about the Will Ferrell Super Bowl ad? link

-Director Robin Fryday joined bi-coastal prodco Nonfiction Unlimited for spots and client-sponsored documentary project representation.

-This is how the gang at RP&, which was behind the Acura/Seinfeld Super Bowl spot of course, celebrated its success. link

-Poor Patriots receiver Wes Welker gets mocked with a ton of Butterfingers as part of a marketing stunt. link

-Yahoo is experiencing a major shift in its boardroom. link

-Happy 200th birthday, Charles Dickens. link

-Have you downloaded the free, “We Are Music” iPhone app from the Grammys? link

-Presenting yet another episode of when ad agency self-promotion goes wrong. link

-Politico discusses the W+K/Chrysler/Clint spot. link

-Are small advertisers benefiting at all from Yelp? link

-Facebook’s IPO might create a sizable tax bill for Mark Zuckerberg. link

-AOL is looking for an agency that can help it reconnect with customers. link

-The Clint Eastwood/Chrysler Super Bowl spot was actually filmed in New Orleans and L.A. link

-Sofia Coppola directs a new spot for H&M, which features a familiar tune from Bryan Ferry.

-Vice launched its Noisey music channel on YouTube. link

-A Taiwanese spot imagines Steve Jobs as an Android lover in heaven (above). link

-In case you missed it, Doritos won the BrandBowl 2012. link

-Last night’s big game set records for Tweets per second as it ended. link

-Speaking of Twitter, could it go public in two years? link

-Facebook will start rolling out mobile ads by March. link

-Verizon and Redbox have joined forces to take on Netflix. link

-Initiative alum Jennifer Lyons was appointed as senior partner/digital planning director for MEC’s digital offerings on the Campbell’s account.

-GM marketing chief Joel Ewanick let people ask him anything this morning on Jalopnik. link