-Detroit-based design firm Skidmore Studio has hired former Y&R Chicago exec Michael Hill as its VP/director of business development.

-Deadspin has an ongoing rundown of the mass layoffs today at ESPN. link

-BBDO Atlanta and Tool teach “babysitting basics” for the American Red Cross (above). link

-Motion design/production studio Royale has appointed a trio of Superfad alums including EP Chris Volckmann, head of digital production Beck Henderer-Peña, and senior art director Loren Judah to head up its new Seattle office.

-The American Advertising Federation has announced its 2013 Advertising Hall of of Achievement inductees including Twitter president/global revenue Adam Bain, Mondelez VP/global media and consumer engagement, B. Bonin Bough and Tara Walpert Levy, managing director/ads marketing for Google/YouTube. link

-Director Albert Kodagolian has joined bi-coastal prodco Interrogate for U.S. representation.

-So, did Dove lie to women in its latest “Real Beauty” campaign? link

-Houston advertising/PR firm Design at Work added two new clients in Portland-based HealthCo Information Systems and Texas-based State Service Company.

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-Suffice it to say that it’s been a busy week for Yahoo as the company follows up its Tumblr acquisition by giving Flickr a makeover. link

-Well well, after months of being “under construction,” Naked has finally launched its new site (promo clip above). link

-It sure didn’t take long after our post for Gene Liebel, founding partner/chief strategy officer at Huge, to divulge what he’s doing next. link

-Here are your 2013 Bees Awards nominees. link

-YouEarnedIt, the employee rewards/engagement platform launched in beta six months ago by WPP Digital agency Rockfish Labs, has appointed former Demand Media execSteve Semelsberger as its new CEO.

-U.K. housing/homelessness charity Shelter has appointed London-based digital shop Chameleon as strategic partner to work across its online giving platforms.

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-Darren Aronofsky, director of films including Black Swan, The Wrestler and Requiem for a Dream of course, has teamed up with Ted Robbins and Sandy Haddad to launch bi-coastal commercial production house, Chromista. link

-The 2013 AICP Week lineup has been announced. link

-GSD&M has promoted several staffers including creative partners Victor Camozzi and Bryan Edwards, who work on Walgreens among other accounts to SVP/group creative directors. In addition, the Austin-based, Omnicom-owned agency has bumped up Nancy Ryan and Carrie Hines to SVP/account directors while elevating Ronnie Steck to VP/account director and Madhavi Reese to VP/strategy director.

-B-Reel created a video for Google Chrome as part of Google’s 2013 I/O conference that helps the Mountain View, CA giant thank developers for their contributions to the internet’s evolution (above).

-Brooklyn-based agency Carrot Creative has launched its new website. You can find out more about the new site from Carrot CPO/co-founder Chris Petescia here.

-Portland, ME-based The VIA Agency has welcomed Richard Fryling as group strategy director for the Sam’s Club account, Deep Focus alum Abha Dhakal as client strategist and Chris Gilbert as a copywriter.

-Filmmaker Greg Kohs joined the roster of Venice, CA prodco Backyard for U.S. commercial representation.

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-Director Dean Freeman has joined the roster of L.A.-based prodco Hello! for his first U.S. commercial representation.

-YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar has been selected as 2013 Cannes Lions Media Person of the Year.

-As you have may have heard, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion and CEO Marissa Mayer is promising “not to screw it up.” link

-Actress Claire Forlani continues to enthrall in the latest Dewar’s spot promoting the Scotch whiskey brand’s Highlander Honey line (above).

-Moxie Pictures has signed award-winning director Kathi Prosser for U.S. representation.

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-Chris Paul Finally Sits Down with Long-Lost Brother, Cliff Paul

-Digitas Makes Some Reductions in NY, Boston

-Yes, BBDO NY is Making Some ‘Significant’ Cuts

-Pierce Parts Ways with KBS+

-McKinney Cuts Staff in NC

-The Porsche Review Might Be Coming Down to the Wire

-Digitas GCD Daggett Moves On

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-Chris Chalk, who most recently worked on Team Land Rover at WPP, has assumed the president/chief strategy officer for Cheil Worldwide Europe.

-CP+B has brought on BBH New York/Singapore alum Andy Grant as an ACD in its L.A. office.

-M&C Saatchi L.A. celebrates the new Australian Outback exhibit at the San Diego Zoo with a new campaign dubbed “Koalafornia” (above, see more here).

-Yahoo’s acquisition wishlist expands, this time with Tumblr. link

-Dunkin’ Donuts hops on the Vine. link

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-We’ve already mentioned the 2013 Grand Clio winners list. In case you didn’t attend last night’s show in NYC (you missed some nice interaction/ball-busting between host Eric Stonestreet and Rob Schwartz by the way), the Clio crew also handed out their first ever “Gravity Award” to Mayo Draftfcb Lima for inventing a billboard that converts condensation into potable water. See case study here.

-Since you rarely, if ever, see a Lucky Charms ad on the telly anymore, Saatchi & Saatchi, Calabash Animation and PatMan Studios are here to create some nostalgia via the viral mashup above.

-McGarryBowen London managing director Ida Rezvani is heading across the pond to assume the same role in said agency’s New York office. link

-Kevin Smith takes a stand against celeb crowdfunding (as do others, as you may have heard). link

-The “world’s first parrot search engine,” you say? link

-No worries, Netflix won’t be selling ads for its streaming site. link

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-This is what happens when Dos Equis hires actor/comedian Michael Ian Black to tweet about their Facebook app (above). See the rest unfold here.

-Holy crap. A 24-year-old Ogilvy China staffer has apparently died from “overwork.” link

-Seattle-based agency DNA has hired Wexley School for Girls alum Roxanne Tolnas as account director and Jenny Lee, formerly of The Hacker Group, as senior art director. link

-Director/VFX artist/animator Drew Lightfoot has joined Toronto-based Untitled Films for Canadian representation. Lightfoot is represented by Passion Pictures here in the States.

-L.A.-based digital agency Sensis has welcomed Polly Beale and Joe Hyde as creative director and director of technology, respectively.

-Campbell Mithun unit Compass Point Media has launched an ad agency trading desk called OdinRTB for retail and CPG clients. link

-Family-owned Massachusetts brand Late July Organic Snacks has tapped Twin Cities agency Haberman to handle its social marketing expansion and new 2013 campaign.

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-A Bullseye View, an online magazine focused on Target, notices the similarities between Brian Sanders‘ poster art for season six of Mad Men and ’60s ads for Dayton’s, which was Target’s predecessor. link

-Ted Booth, principal/managing director at design firm Method, discusses what advertising means in an age where there’s no “traditional” agency. link

-And now, some suggestive wine pairings from Harvest Films for California’s SLO Down Wines (above; see two more spots here and here).

-Salt Lake City digital agency Super Top Secret has added Chris Moore as a partner and has launched its film/TV-focused arm, STS Studios. link

-Global production studio @radical.media has signed Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (which includes Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, John Harvatine IV, and Eric Towner) to its roster. link

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-London/San Francisco-based mobile marketing agency Fetch has appointed Catalyst S+F CEO/managing partner John Durham to its board of directors.

-It took a month to make it official, but, yes, McCann Erickson along with sister IPG agencies GolinHarris and Casanova Pendrill have been selected by the American Frozen Food Institute to develop a national consumer campaign on behalf of the newly-formed Frozen Food Roundtable.

-W+K Portland and Old Spice have reunited with Terry Crews (who just happened to be hanging with Ron Howard in NYC today) to promote the P&G brand’s Shave Gel launch (one spot above, second spot here). In addition, as part of the Shave Gel campaign, Old Spice has gained open access to Getty Images’ library of stock photography to create a 24-hour website generator, which just might be the most interesting component of the whole effort.

-And now, let’s warm the cockles and tell you that the pair of expecting Peregrine Falcons housed on Campbell Ewald’s rooftop have welcomed their first eyasses (baby falcon). Prepare to say “awww” as here’s a minute-long clip of mama’s first feeding to newborn.

-Well, that was fast as it appears JCPenney has already moved on from apologizing after barely two weeks. link; link

-ABC will kick off Nielsen’s first-ever trial in expanding the latter’s Online Campaign Ratings solution to mobile apps.

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Lafferty’s soon-to-be boss, BBH Group CEO Gwyn Jones, says in a statement, “Patrick has a really calm authority and such a rich body of experience. He has seen and done a lot both within and beyond our industry – embracing client side, media ownership and the military. We have great strategic and creative strength in the business, and I think Pat will bring outstanding leadership to that offering. On top of all that – I think he is just a great person.”

As you’d expect, Lafferty, who was, yes, a former platoon leader/company commander in the U.S. Army, will be tasked with running both BBH New York, which of course handles Axe and now Playstation, and L.A., which services clients including Red Bull. During his career, the exec has also worked on the account side at Leo Burnett and as CMO at Travel Channel.

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-Alex Yenni, who most recently served as lead digital planner at SapientNitro on accounts including VitaminWater (on, for example, the #MakeBoringBrilliant campaign), has joined Blast Radius New York as strategy director.

-Spikes Asia 2013, which takes place Sept. 15-17 in Singapore, has announced its jury presidents including Ogilvy worldwide CCO Tham Khai Meng, who will head up Film, Press, Outdoor and Radio. link

-Pasadena, CA-based indie agency Ayzenberg Group, which boasts a client roster ranging from EA to Microsoft to Disney, is opening up shop in London this summer.

-Omnicom-owned Minneapolis agency Martin|Williams is behind the designs for new cans being offered by local brewer, Finnegans. link

-David&Goliath has teamed up with Psyop for a new effort called “More Luck for Your Buck,” which promotes the California Lottery’s Fortune 55 Scratchers game (above).

-Indianapolis-based agency Young & Laramore brought on Lindsay Hadley as an art director on accounts including Scotts LawnService.

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-Mike Sheehan chats with The Boston Globe about stepping down as CEO at Hill Holliday and handing over the reins to longtime colleague, Karen Kaplan. link

-Former Cohn & Wolfe EVP/managing director/senior digital strategist Brad B. McCormick has joined Dallas-based indie agency Moroch as chief digital officer.

-Leo Burnett/Merkley + Partners alum Melinda Smart has joined McCann Detroit in the newly created role of  EVP/integrated client services director.

-Cali-based agency Zambezi has launched a digital “pants petition” for Ashworth Golf that stars a handful of the latter’s brand ambassadors (above).

-Editorial/VFX/design studio Cut+Run added Amburr Farls as a senior producer in its Los Angeles office.

-Project: Worldwide agency George P. Johnson as appointed former Jack Morton Worldwide VP Jude Braunstein as executive director, client services, based out of the New York office.

-Salt Lake City-based Struck has been named corporate digital creative agency for homebuilding brand, Lennar Corporation.

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In a statement, the outgoing VCU board head says, ““I’m especially proud of my part in helping to bring [Brandcenter director] Helayne [Spivak] and John to these positions. I can’t imagine two better people to lead the changes and advances ahead. The students, faculty and the industry should all feel very good about this. My 34-year partnership with John and my 20-year relationship with the Brandcenter have been two of the highlights of my career. I envy their opportunity to help define the future of this business and the future of advertising and branding education.”

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-Paul Fishlock, the former chairman/ECD of the now-defunct Y&R Brands unit, The Campaign Palace, has been awarded $270,000 in damages by the New South Wales Supreme Court after a two-year legal battle with his ex-employer. You can read the full court ruling here.

-In case you missed the goings on at Terminal 5 in NYC last Friday evening, here’s a PDF rundown of all your 2013 One Show Interactive winners. Besides the usual suspects picking up Pencils, R/GA took home the inaugural Interactive Agency of the Year honors at this year’s event.

-SapientNitro has appointed Tabitha Geary as VP of its D.C. office.

-Actor Beck Bennett, star of the BBDO-created “It’s Not Complicated” campaign for AT&T, tells E! just how unscripted the spots are. link

-The Cannes Lions crew has teamed up with YouTube and Mindshare to launch “Lions Live,” which will stream one live seminar session each day via the Lions YouTube channel for the duration of this year’s Festival. link

-Sid Lee and sibling prodco, Jimmy Lee, celebrate wild summer nights in the Canadian wilderness for Moosehead Lager (above).

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