Just 22 percent of shareholders refused to back Sorrell's compensation package.

Cannes is an overly insular celebration of self-absorbed egos who wouldn't understand a regular American's needs if they were posted on a gigantic creative brief outside the Gutter Bar.

Social media poster boy, Gary Vaynerchuk is opening up shop in Chattanooga. His New York-based agency, VaynerMedia, which he launched in 2009 with his brother AJ, has grown to 500 employees and is looking to move beyond focusing predominantly on social media for its clients. Vaynerchuk plans to staff the new office with 10-12 people initially who will serve 4-5 clients. Why Chattanooga? VaynerMedia VP Mickey Cloud said, "We're really excited about what is going on in Chattanooga with the entrepreneurial scene and the encouragement and enthusiasm that the city has for technology, for startups and for …

"I hate the cult of failure, it's idiotic," says Sapient Nitro Australia National Strategy Director Phil Phelan (whose name sounds very much like "failin").

Remember radio? Yeah, some of you have probably never heard of it. Trust me, It was awesome. Anyway. In an effort to keep the medium alive, the Radio Mercury Awards does its best each year to celebrate creativity in radio. This year, Wieden + Kennedy took home the $50,000 Best of Show award for its "Mandroid" campaign for Old Spice. Of the Mandroid win, Arnold Global Chief Creative Officer Jim Elliott, who was one of the judges, said: "'Mandroid' was above and beyond the most captivating and creative campaign we heard. This year’s winners are great examples …

Have you heard of Shocase? It's a relatively new social network designed specifically for marketers. While the vertical social network thing has been done before -- to limited success -- Shocase creator Ron Young thinks the time is ripe for (yet another) vertical social network. He says: “There hasn’t been a dedicated social media network for the world’s hundred million marketers until now. We believe that the trend for vertical social networks is inevitable.” Barring the fact that Ning has already done this to varied success, it's certainly possible Shocase could catch on. After all, it's portfolio …

This year's winner is Bergendi Hatch who works at the agency's Salt Lake City office.

Former Ampersand creative Seth Perisho is heading to Dallas to run the creative department of Launch. Perisho began his career at TracyLocke in the late '90s working on brands like Pizza Hut and Pepsi. He then moved to Barkley in Kansas City to work on Sonic Drive-Ins and Payless ShoeSource and then GSD &M in Austin for Chili's and BMW.  In 2008, Perisho moved on to Ampersand, a smaller Austin boutique agency where he realized small agency life was the way to go.  Of his move, he said: "When you think about the ad …

Hey, if you're an ad agency and you're not in the proverbial heart of things -- Madison Avenue -- then you might as well acknowledge that fact right up front. That seems to be the way of things at Phoenix, Arizona-based agency Off Madison Avenue. Yeah, that's the agency's name -- Off Madison Avenue. And they are expanding! But not to Madison Avenue. Confused? No, neither am I. But I can tell you the agency is opening two new offices, one in Los Angeles and one in Boulder, Colorado -- which, it seems, is where every agency …

Speaking at the Mumbrella360 conference in Sydney, founder of Sydney-based ad agency Ted Horton said the industry's desire for creative awards has become corrupt.