Australian agency Cummins & Partners, which recently opened an office in New York, is putting a shingle up in Toronto.

It's gotta be tough being a Millennial these days. Everyone crapping on you from left and right.

Michael Ferdman, who founded the agency Firstborn 18 years ago, is bidding his agency and the ad industry goodbye. Ferdman has been planning his exit since Dentsu Aegis acquired the shop four years ago. Since that time, he has been formulating his exit plans and grooming agency President Dan LaCivita for the role of CEO. Of his exit, Ferdman said: "What was a real crystallizing factor in closing the Dentsu deal in February 2011 for me was that it would start my leaving, and that I'd be able to hand it off in hopefully great shape. I …

In an open letter printed in Monday's Advertising Age, the chief executive of branding agency CBX asked the Cannes Lions, CLIO and Pencil awards programs to begin honoring creative agencies for their work in naming -- or as they like to call it, "verbal identity." Because, after all, everyone wants in on the Cannes Lions and other award event boondoggles. The letter read: To the esteemed Governing Bodies and Judging Committees of the Cannes Lions, CLIO, and Pencil Awards: Thank you. Your awards elevate an entire industry and celebrate the best and brightest …

Life after the ad agency. Is there one?

Did you know that Grey New York has added over $2 billion in new business since Jim Heekin became chairman and CEO of the shop? Well, maybe that's because he's such an awesome guy, wears gold bracelets and sports purple ties.  So in celebration of Heekin's awesomeness...and his tenth anniversary with Grey New York, creative partner Tor Myhren has created Fridays Are For Heekin, a celebratory video that hilariously touts Heekin's contribution to the agency. The video is set to the ever popular ABBA tune, "Fernando," and has loads of fun skewering Heekin's …

Formula8's Fiona Bartholomeusz has a few pieces of advice for those toiling their ways through agency life.

So there's this guy named Kevin Blanford. He was awarded a free trip to the Wyndam Grand Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa in Puerto Rico. But he couldn't take his 7-month-old daughter on the trip because of a liability issue and his wife didn't want to leave baby daughter at home. So Kevin took his friend and former colleague, Alec, on the trip. When Alec took a picture of Kevin at the airport just before they left, Kevin looked miserable. So the pair decided to make a photo series with pictures of Kevin "suffering" a miserable …

Well, this is sweet. Albert Crane is president and CEO of CyberSales One. Both of Albert's kids work in advertising. Albert is very excited because both his kids received promotions on the same day -- April 1st -- this week. Beth Crane Graves, 35, was promoted to senior partner, global media director at MediaCom, working on the Pedigree/ Mars account. Bert Crane IV, 33, was promoted to vice president, client services, Kitara Online Advertising, headquartered out of Newark, NJ. Both happened on the same day. Same industry, two different companies making a similar decision …

Ever since the sixties, the Pillsbury Dough Boy has been giggling after getting poked or tickled in TV commercials.