-Australian agency RGG creative launched a traditional campaign for Tobin Brothers, a chain of…funeral homes?! (video above)
-New York-based independent advertising agency Terri and Sandy (which is no longer a “solution”) appointed Tony Scopellito as managing director.
-Crayola Canada named Matchstick as its social media agency of record.
–Rich Siegel, a freelance creative who writes the blog RoundSeventeen published a new book entitled Round Seventeen & 1/2: The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Inefficient. This blog may or may not make an appearance in the book.
–Michael Weisburd and Aditya Hariharan, two recent Miami Ad School graduates, launched Mucked Up Mascots.
-Digiday explores how “Ad blocker users are the new hot ad-targeting segment.”
-Content marketing agency Truffle Pig appointed Paul Marcum as president.
-U.K. animation company Aardman is acquiring a majority share in New York-based animation company Nathan Love.