The Cranberry Apple Walnut Grilled Chicken Salad is back at Carl's Jr. but not Kim Kardashian, who last appeared in its ads in 2009. This time, actress Jenny McCarthy has been enlisted to show both the salads and the breasts (not of chicken) in a 30-second TV spot titled "Forget You're Eating Salad." The chain's traditional "behind-the-scenes" teaser is on YouTube. The real commercial breaks next Monday in selected markets.

Conan O'Brien likes his advertising cash flow but also wants creative freedom, a requirement that benefits both sides, he told Anderson Cooper in a packed house at the Cannes Lions festival. The two talked at a panel about things like sponsored segments on TBS's Conan show, and the power of social media. O'Brien said brand integrations simply don't work if they require him to be insincere or inauthentic to his own sense of humor.

Not all of the ads at Cannes were about fried chicken, shaving cream, sneakers and vitamin juice. There were several cause-related, NPO and social ills ads in the mix as well.These marketing campaigns took top honors at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the ad world's largest trade show and awards event. At the jump, you can see them.

A federal probe into alleged illegal immigration-related activities at 7-Eleven Inc. locations has expanded to 40 convenience stores in 7 states. Federal authorities initially seized 14 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia, charging 9 owners and managers of harboring and hiring illegal immigrants and paying them using fake Social Security numbers. Authorities say undocumented workers were forced to work 100 hours a week for a small percentage of their wages.

Might Chrysler soon be "Imported from Tennessee"? Yes, if Tennessee seduces the Auburn Hills, Mich., automaker. CEO Sergio Marchionne has dropped repeated hints in recent months that the Fiat side of the company just might move its headquarters out of Italy. The thought that the newly merged automaker might set up shop anywhere other than Michigan - or Italy - however, began with a flippant exchange between Marchionne and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Sunday.

Volkswagen has admitted it lost its way in China, where it sells a third of its cars, saying it suffered a "terrible wake-up call" after discovering its brand reputation had plummeted in the eyes of the Chinese. The automaker's CMO, Alexi Orlov, admitted so at Cannes Lions on Tuesday, alongside the PepsiCo chief marketing officer, Richard Lee, discussing what it takes to crack the Chinese market.

At Cannes Lions, Microsoft announced a new wave of prototypes it has developed with agencies like BMB, Razorfish, Rooster Worldwide, UM, and VML and brands like All Saints clothing, Mercedes-Benz USA, Vans Shoes, MasterCard and Dell. One, created by BMB, fuses brand identity of All Saints clothing with the aesthetics of a traditional fashion shoot or TV spot within the Windows 8 app.

Chan Suh was the mind behind Agency.com, which had a couple of floors, at least, in an building downtown back when New York was stuffed with short-sightred VC funding for absurdly myopic startups. Back then. clients all had .com hanging from their names like fishing sinkers. Now Suh's at Prophet as a senior partner in the newly created role of chief digital officer.

At the advertising festival Cannes Lions, Facebook's VP of global marketing solutions Carolyn Everson said, "We wouldn't have a company without brands; they are essential. Not only to the business side-of course that's where the revenue comes from-but we also deeply believe that brands offer a tremendous amount of value to consumers, and always have."

One Million Moms is in a tizzy because of a Kraft Zesty Italian dressing ad in which a Renaissance-sculptured guy poses nearly naked on a picnic blanket. The ad has benefited from the moms' contumely. The moms call it "disgusting." To be clear, we're not talking GG Allin here just a well-built nearly naked guy on a blanket.