Women may be worried about the economy, but they are certainly splurging on their fingernails. The NPD Group reports that in the first 10 months of the year, total prestige makeup sales are up 8% to $2.8 million. And high-end nail products, those sold in department stores, are up a whopping 59%. Total eye and other color products gained 10%, lip products rose 8%, and total face products advanced 7%. The strongest trend, overall, was bright color. "In makeup, while neutral tones and face products led in the past, across countries we see strong gains in color categories of lip …

MDC Partners has hired Anne Bologna as a Managing Director, responsible for several of the advertising, branding and research companies in the holding company. She joins from Cramer-Krasselt, New York , where she was executive vice president-general manager. Before that, she was founding partner and CEO of independent agency Toy.

As one Nielsen communications exec leaves -- Chief Communications Officer Ed Dandridge (see earlier post) -- another has arrived. Flavie Lemarchand-Wood has joined Nielsen as vice president-global communications, reporting to senior vice president-global communications Matt Anchin.

Ed Dandridge is out as Chief Communications Officer at Nielsen. Dandridge is leaving to become CEO of an as-yet-undisclosed Washington, DC-based private equity trade association. Nielsen is currently reviewing what to do about his position.

Out-of home ad spending rose 4.2% in the third quarter vs. the same period last year, accounting for $1.5 billion, based on figures released this morning by the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA).

Barely a year and a half on the job, MT Carney, president of marketing for Walt Disney Studios, looks to be on the outs -- this according to The Wrap. The former senior executive at media/creative agency at Naked Communications, looks to be replaced says the story, with a search under way for her replacement. Under her run, Carney has only produced one real big hit -- that of …

Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. hit $7.88 billion during the third quarter of 2011, representing a 22% increase over the same period in 2010, according to just released estimates from the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report. The IAB said the quarter marks the 8th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth. It also represents a 2.7% increase from the record-setting revenues of the second quarter of 2011.

Time Warner has confirmed that Digitas' Laura Lang has been named CEO of Time Inc., effective in January.

Starcom MediaVest Group has named Brent Poer executive vice president and executive creative director of LiquidThread North America, the agency's "digitally-led content creation unit."

Laura Lang, the CEO of Digitas, and the top digital executive inside Publicis, reportedly is about to be named CEO of Time Inc., according to a flurry of speculative reports published this afternoon.