-Culver City, California production company Blur Studio created a trailer for Halo Wars 2 (video above).
-Beverage company Gruppo Campari named Los Angeles-based TVGla as its digital marketing agency.
-Integrated retail and shopper agency Live & Breathe appointed Justin Hill as creative director for its Leeds office, effective immediately.
-Media planning and buying agency Crossmedia was named media agency of record for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns and the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury.
-Minneapolis-based creative agency mono announced that it is expanding west with a new San Francisco office.
-WONGDOODY named Mikalia Weaver as the winner of its first Women in Advertising Scholarship.
-Moscow agency Hungry Boys developed the SeeLight app for the 101st anniversary of the electric traffic light.
-Former BBH U.K. chair Jim Carroll writes, “Marketing risks becoming mechanistic without imaginative ideas to animate it.”