Wednesday Odds and Ends

By Kiran Aditham 

-Dylan Harrison left DDB London to take on the ECD post at Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand. link

– 41% of Super Bowl viewers plan on re-watching the ads from the game online according to a Venables Bell & Partners survey. link

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-The UK continues to go on the warpath against booze marketing, this time banning drinking contests in pubs and other promotions. link

-Siegel+Gale appoints David Srere and Howard Belk to co-CEOs. link

-CNN.com announced a partnership with Vice and Sub Pop Records. link

-Rest easy, kids. Britney Spears is back for a second year to shill for Candie’s. link

-Weber Shandwick’s Minneapolis-St. Paul office won a three-year campaign for “Taste of the NFL.” link

-A RuPaul billboard offends residents in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. link

-Tiger Woods is MIA in a new Nike launch to support his “Victory Red” line. link

-Bill Gates joins Twitter, racks up over 160,000 followers in no time. link

-Valerie Bertinelli as a scientist in a Jenny Craig commercial doesn’t fly with Weight Watchers. link

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