-Sid Lee’s new work for the Canadian Olympic Team positions athletes as superheroes.
-Infamous London charity the Presidents Club will be closing down entirely after FT ran an expose and WPP distanced itself from the organization. But these sorts of events still happen all over Europe.
-In an AdAge op-ed, Mark Wnek of New Breed Talent Army concludes that being an asshole boss just isn’t worth it.
-And here’s an obit of late CD Peter Mayle, author of “Up the Agency,” who died last week at 78.
-Should we collectively retire the “David Ogilvy” character? Yes. Or no.
-Twitter is developing a “Snapchat-style feature” that will encourage users to share video. But who watches video on Twitter?
-On that note, Deutsch and other agencies tell Adweek that Snapchat’s new tools that allow users to share content on other platforms (like, say, Twitter) will not lead them to spend more.
-YouTube influencers won’t save us, either. Casey Neistat and CNN are breaking up after just over a year.