-JWT Buenos Aires launched this bizarre spot for Argentinian newspaper Clarin (video above).
-Saatchi L.A. trained IBM’s Watson to write thousands of Toyota ads.
-Ogilvy group creative director John Long writes that “the insatiable parasite that is your smartphone makes you worse at your job.”
-Campbell Ewald CEO Kevin Wertz and Doner CSO James Ward discuss their agencies’ gender diversity efforts.
-Campaign explains how “Tobacco’s unbranding could be a wake-up call for other brands.”
-Independent agency The Escape Pod Group hired Celia Jones as brand director.
-BMB co-founder Trevor Beattie says “London-generated work seems to consist almost entirely of a weepy adolescent girl singing an acoustic version of an old rock classic over a worthy, pan-generational story shot in slow-mo 360, laundered through Instagram and holographically projected up its own rectum.”
-The agencies are podcasting.