-SapientNitro opened an office in Dubai. link
-Taylor Swift is the latest famous person to join 180LA/Sony’s “Make.Believe” marketing blitz. link
-YouTube opens a rental store. link
-For the first time, marketers spent more on internet advertising than in magazines in 2009. link
-CNet things AT&T should buy Foursquare. link
-PromaxBDA is giving a lifetime achievement award to Hef. link
-Virgin America’s web AOR Rokkan further redesigned and added better functionality to the brand’s homepage. link
-Is Wal-Mart conducting an ad test that makes customers pay more for products? link
-When does product placement become false advertising? link
-A new play called Generation buY, which exposes/satirizes techniques for marketing to kids, opens in NYC next month. link
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