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The agency's New York office won it for the "Take it from a fish" campaign for AstraZeneca. In the Health and Wellness section of the awards, Leo Burnett Mexico claimed … Read the full story by Steve McClellan

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Google slipped in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) privacy ratings for the first time, earning three out of five stars. The company had a perfect score of five stars in … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

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Was this interview really necessary? Maybe it was simply too tempting on the part of NBC News to put Brian Williams on TV in an interview with Matt Lauer in … Read the full story by Adam Buckman

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Concerns over advertising-free TV and media content might appear to be growing. Still, Pivotal Research Group says that for the 2014-15 TV season ad-free television, premium pay cable and public … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
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Social media intelligence firm Crimson Hexagon has unveiled a new image analytics service as part of its ForSight analytics platform, the company announced this week. Among other capabilities the new … Read the full story by Erik Sass
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I believe advertising has missed the greatest gift we've ever been given: the smartphone. For years it's been my belief that, as the time we spend on-screen increases every day, … Read the full story by Tom Goodwin

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User-generated content that morphed into eyewitness-footage of current events has become one of the most interesting transformations in the evolution of YouTube. Now Google wants to use that footage
to … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

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What do you do when your star player falters and you cannot keep him in the lineup any longer? If you're a baseball manager, you send him down to the … Read the full story by Adam Buckman

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The Association of National Advertisers has issued a request for proposals for an "Industry-Wide Media Transparency Study." The ANA said the bid will go to the "third-party organization that can … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
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Let's face it: Donald Trump's presidential announcement (otherwise known as throwing his hairpiece, or clown-nose, into the ring) was the gift that keeps on giving. From its very first moment … Read the full story by
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Where is Twitter headed? The surprise resignation of Dick Costolo has almost everyone I know asking "Who, where and when?" - who will take over, where will the company go, … Read the full story by Cory Treffiletti
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Because of mobile, we can start to aggregate entire purchase journeys instead of just audiences. Instead of aggregating audiences and predict where they are in the purchase journey using content … Read the full story by Barry Lowenthal

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For the coming season, Fox may be writing business at flat to slightly down pricing, according to analysts. Although it topped all networks for the better part of a decade … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman

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21st Century Fox has made it official: Rupert Murdoch will leave his post as chief executive officer on July 1. Murdoch will hand over the CEO post and its day-to-day … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman

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Amidst concerns about viewability of advertising on digital platforms, a new survey of advertising agency executives says that confidence in digital video advertising value has improved. Agencies
record stronger interest … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman

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Microsoft will begin encrypting all search traffic on Bing, making the intent and other signals related to the search query more important than keywords. The company made the move in … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

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The U.S. product placement marketplace expanded nearly 13% in 2014 and is on track to beat that growth again this year, according to the 2015 edition of the Global Branded … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
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"Sensory Stories," an exhibit in New York's Museum of the Moving Image, offers glimpses of futuristic technology -- or more accurately, futuristic application of existing technology -- to satisfy
humans' … Read the full story by Bob Garfield
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I recently received an invitation to participate in a discussion with more than 25 global research leaders. The title of the discussion was, "Why is it taking us so long … Read the full story by Gayle Fuguitt

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In a defeat for the cable and telecom industries, a federal appeals court today refused to delay the new net neutrality rules. The move means that the new rules will … Read the full story by Wendy Davis