-We have to say, this DDB Paris Ubisoft spot is pretty intense for a video game trailer.
-Someone has created @Campainmag, a satirical Twitter feed in the time-tested style of Adweak.
-Deutsch’s Pete Favat hypes his agency’s work on the new Nest #MeToo Oscars spot by calling on dudes everywhere to do more.
-A bunch of industry observers have had quite enough of your gloom-and-doom takes on WPP’s no good, very bad financial earnings call.
-Translation hired Kenneth Pang as its West Coast business lead for new and existing clients like Alaska Airlines. He will be based in the San Francisco office.
-Brownstein Group won AOR duties for NJM Insurance Group, which is expanding to Pennsylvania. Check out the campaign here.
-Verizon acquired design consultancy Moment, which will now “help strengthen Verizon’s important mission to provide the best customer connectivity” and never have to worry about other clients ever again.
-Venables Bell & Partners has joined up with Rally, an “issues-driven communications firm,” to work on more explicitly political (but not necessarily partisan) campaigns.