Only 2% of popular music is produced by women. The Academy hopes to change that, and the agency is supporting the effort with a new campaign.

But the U.S. District Court Judge also narrowed the case tossing some of the charges in the law suit filed by Ralph Watson, the former Chief Creative Officer at Crispin Porter Bogusky.

Creative Riff, launched in 2015 by founder/CEO Ryan Coan, has worked with well-known media brands like FX Networks, Hulu, Marvel Studios and ABC.

Earlier this month, company brand Planters killed off mascot Mr. Peanut. Now the parent is axing half its agency roster.

"Marketers once relied solely on their agencies of record to filter ideas, navigate and manage their landscape of creative production suppliers," a new trends report states. That's changing as clients rely less on AOR relationships.

Dentsu posted a companywide organic revenue decline of 1% for full year 2019. Americas was the best-performing region, with 2.4% growth.

Adam Crozier, the former CEO of the UK's television network ITV, who earlier led ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi, has been appointed to the post.

Torrey Plank, Karen Cunningham and Reid Miller have joined forces to form new ad agency 3 Mad Fish. They have made progress reeling in business.

GroupM media agency Wavemaker has completed a restructuring of its worldwide client leadership team with the appointment of Alastair Bannerman to the role of global client president, reporting to CEO Toby Jenner.

It's based on a proprietary formula and there is one caveat: I could be wrong.