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-Draftfcb Chicago Makes Some Cuts

-JWT Appoints Co-CCOs in NY

-Sad: Publicis NY Producer Passes Away

-The Pitch Recap: The Ad Store and Kovel/Fuller Fight for Frangelico

-Mullen Opening West Coast Talent Hub

-Without Further Ado, Here’s PepsiMax’s ‘Uncle Drew’

-Muse Uses AMC’s ‘The Pitch’ to Pitch Racial Diversity to Ad Industry

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-Well, we knew this was coming in regards to Dish’s Auto Hop. link

-In across the pond news, Leo Burnett snagged the 5o-million pound Co-op business from TBWA Manchester. link

-Facebook premium ads are now self-service, thank you. link

-Goodby celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge (one example above).

-So, this is how you live in AOL’s office for a long while and no one notices. link

 

 

-So, who’s the most paid ad exec? link

-Production company Caviar added director Alex Stapleton to its roster.

-How’s about a nice long rant about advertising and religion? link

-Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant moves from Sprint to Champs–well, at least for now– in a new sport for the latter brand.

-Do you want see a CLIO opening montage? Well, do you? link

-Anomaly developed and launched the new website for Renaissance Hotels. link

-Apparently, Google kills 250K search links a week. Wait, can we Google these stats?  link

-Here are your 2012 Bees Awards winners. link

-DDB and Tribal DDB Amsterdam have teamed up for another campaign for airline KLM dubbed “Be My Guest.” link

-Fast-food companies are “eating up” social currency. Hooray for wordplay. link

-Samsung is getting plenty of love this week, this time from BETC London, which has launched a new effort promoting its Smart TV brand (above).

-Entertainment executive Alex Lang has joined Hollywood-based Play Creative TV as EP/creative director.

-Insurance company Zurich launched a global ad review. link

-HP is making some massive cuts, but its stock price has jumped. link

-Omnicom acquired London shop Adam & Eve, which will now be re-branded as Adam & Eve/DDB. link

-Former Leo Burnett/Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland creative director James Wilkinson has assumed the same title at SapientNitro’s Toronto office.

-Speaking of SapientNitro, the network’s Sydney office is taking action against bullying with “Earphone Bully” (headphones needed, obviously). link

-Who needs life to flash before your eyes when you have AlmapBBDO’s one-minute montage for Getty Images (above)?

-Well, we guess this was kismet in the social media realm. link

-Internet security brand Kapersky Labs tapped McCann London to lead digital campaigns and branding strategy.

-Director and Emmy Award-winner (for Game of Thrones title sequence) Rob Feng has joined Beverly Hills/London-based prodco Paydirt for commercial representation in the US, UK and Japan.

-Definition 6 has released its own Timeline Movie Maker for Facebook Pages. link

-Pennsylvania-based shop Neiman redesigned the site for gas station chain, Sunoco. link

-Microsoft Advertising and WPP’s 24/7 Media have partnered up. link

-Meanwhile, Digitas France and Hansel’s fave brand of water Evian have launched a new web platform called “Evian the source.” link

-A rebound for Facebook stock, you say? link

-The Communications Workers of America are not happy with T-Mobile’s plan to ship jobs overseas and here’s one of the ways they’re reacting (above). link

-We’ve heard of digital ninjas before, and now there’s a design one in Richmond, VA as local shop BCF hired Lauren Erickson as said title.

 

-Dentsu America alum Jack Bamberger was appointed as president, digital of MEC North America.

-Our pal and SheSays platform proprietor Ale Lariu is hosting her first New York-based SCAMP conference and is promoting it through Pinterest (above). link

-Grey NY’s “Best Man” spot for E*Trade won the audience over in the CBS primetime special, Clash of the Commercials: USA vs The World. link

-Google has sealed the deal on its $13 billion Motorola Mobility buy. link

-Saatchi & Saatchi worldwide digital CD Tom Eslinger is moving from London to New York and adding director of integrated production responsibilities to his workload. link

-DUMBO design agency HUSH signed Erik Yang full-time to its roster. link

-If you have a few minutes, check out the Roman Polanski-directed short for Prada, which debuted at Cannes and  stars a rather familiar pair of actors (above). link

-WPP unit Xaxis, which is housed under the GroupM umbrella, opened up a Toronto office, which will be led by managing director Rodney Perry.

-VivaKi’s R&D unit, Nerve Center, has has collaborated with BlueKai to develop a new data platform called Audience Insights. link

-So, who made the cut in BrandZ’s annual list of top 100 most valuable global brands? link

-Agencies folks weigh in on Facebook post-IPO. link

-Speaking of the social network, Unilever is switching focus of marketing strategies for Dove to Facebook. link

-Kraft shareholders will have their say in whether “Mondelez” is too ridiculous of a new name for the food/bev giant. link

-Publicis Dallas and Blacklist director Dvein bring us more scary monsters for Terminix (above). More spots here and here.

-Los Angeles-based prodco LA.B Film & Content signed director Adam Cameron for U.S. commercial representation

Once again, our tipsters were spot on as we’ve received an internal note sent from Mullen chief creative officer Mark Wenneker to staff today regarding rumors about the Boston-based agency opening up shop in San Francisco. Well, as Wenneker says, it’s no longer rumor. We’ve been hearing about the Bay Area expansion since Friday, and from what we know, that instead of just being referred to as an office per se, the Mullen camp is calling it a “talent hub.” The agency is currently finalizing space and recruiting said “talent” for the new SF “hub,” which we’ve been told should hopefully be operational at the beginning of next month. Anyhow, check out Wenneker’s full memo, which should clarify matters, after the jump.

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-Publicis Groupe aligned Saatchi & Saatchi and digital shop Duke in France to create, you guessed it, saatchi&saatchi duke. link

-IPG-owned shop AFG& hired Tom Goodwin to take on the newly created role of director of growth and innovation.

-Digital Pulp redesigned Dartmouth’s website. link

-Let’s wind things down today with a vinyl trick montage from Conscious Minds (above). Shaun and Ed from Shaun of the Dead are no match.

-First Facebook’s out and now the Super Bowl for General Motors. What’s Joel Ewanick up to? link

-Saatchi & Saatchi’s Team One brought over Fabio Simoes Pinto from its LA office to serve as creative director on Lexus, as well as Chiat/Deutsch alum Justin Mitchell as integrated art director on the automaker’s account as well as Heather Parke as senior copywriter for general accounts.

-Organic and Constellation Wines teamed up to encourage young wine enthusiasts to play “social sommelier.” link

-Starz Entertainment hired Erin Dwyer as executive director, digital marketing for originals and Joe Salvati as executive director for brand and digital sites. link

-In case you didn’t know, you can now embed or view Art & Corny in full. link