-Montreal-based umbrella firm Aimia has appointed Eric Monteiro as EVP, global strategy. link

-Australia racked up the most awards at Beijing’s Digital Asia Festival, which awarded Wunderman Sydney as Agency of the Year and featured a jury led by McCann’s Euro chief innovation officer, Matias Palm-Jensen. link

-BuzzFeed hired Yahoo alum Nancy Newman as VP of sales marketing and learning, and former Google exec Jonathan Perelman as VP of agency strategy and development.

-Sausalito, CA creative studio Division of Labor tries its best to cheer up Mitt Romney as part of a campaign for Roku (above).

-SapientNitro acquired Portland, OR-based interactive studio Second Story and has reported an 11 percent revenue gain for Q3. link; link

-Maybe people aren’t “lovin’ it” so much as McDonald’s global sales fell for the first time since 2003. link

-Starcom MediaVest Group global CEO Laura Desmond was named vice chair of the board of directors of the Ad Council.

-Seattle shop Frank Unlimited replaced Susana Cascais with Dave Abrass as managing director. Cascais is heading back to her native Portugal for family reasons.

-Farfar alum and current McCann Europe chief innovation officer Matias Palm-Jensen will serve as jury president for Digital Asia Festival, which just kicked off its preliminary judging. link

-Business Insider has ranked its top 15 “marketing strategy thinkers” based on influence. link

-Grey has bought up Dusseldorf-based digital media agency, k102. link

-DDB New York puts first-world problems in check in a new campaign for “Water is Life” (above).

-Here’s the intro video from this year’s installment of “The Big Ad Gig” (above). link

-The Digital Asia Festival has appointed current McCann Erickson Europe chief innovation officer and Farfar founder Matias Palm-Jensen as jury president.

-Winnipeg/NYC-based agency ClarkHuot/Cocoon acquired seven-year-old design shop, Vantage Studios.

-Interactive agency Rockfish promoted Jason Bender to executive creative director. link

-Outback Steakhouse and Carl’s Jr. are going public within the next few days. link

-M&C Saatchi creative team Matt Pam and Simon Hipwell have joined BETC London. link

Hey, why not throw in a little across-the-pond news this morning. McCann Worldgroup has bought up  London-based interactive design shop AllofUs, which was founded in 2003 and has worked for clients and organizations ranging from the BBC and Tate Britain to Nokia and Microsoft.

McCann’s CEO Nick Brien says that for now, AllofUs will work most closely with the Worldgroup UK offices, McCann London, MRM London and Momentum London. In addition, the AllofUs name will remain intact and the founders–design director Nick Cristea, director of R&D Orlando Mathias, AD Simon “Sanky” Sankarayya and business director Phil Gerrard–will partner with McCann NY/London CCO Linus Karlsson and McCann Erickson’s European chief innovation officer Matias Palm-Jensen.

-Farfar (RIP) founder Matias Palm-Jensen joined McCann as chief innovation officer for Europe. link

-Importer W.J. Deutsch retained Havas-owned MPG as media agency for mid-shelf wine, Yellow Tail.

-Seventh Generation co-founder Jeffrey Hollender formed a consultant partnership with Kelliher Samets Volk.

-GM CMO Joel Ewanick says that his company will bring back the El Camino if Jalopnik gets 100,000 comments on its post. link

-Eric Kahn joined L.A.’s The Ant Farm as head of digital.

-It just hasn’t been the same since the Cosby days (above). link