-A campaign from Leo Burnett Israel amusingly hypes the Samsung Galaxy Note9’s all-day battery (yeah, right) by reminding us that not everything is a crisis.
-So did Nike’s Colin Kaepernick create a crisis? Donald Trump doesn’t seem to think so, though he told The Daily Caller yesterday that it was “a terrible decision.”
-In a totally amazing coincidence, a report regarding that website’s (very recent) employment of a proud neo-Nazi and anti-Semite broke the morning after they scored an exclusive call with the president.
-Remember when people argued that the late Pat Tillman should have appeared in the ad instead of Colin Kaepernick? His biographer told the Washington Post that “he would be the first to kneel.”
-More political ad news, yay! New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon’s latest spot is very blunt: “Tax the rich. Fix the subway.”
-RIP to Theranos, former employer of multiple TBWA\Chiat\Day L.A. veterans.
-CP+B parted with 4 employees in its Boulder headquarters this week.
-Cleveland-based agency Marcus Thomas has acquired “customer engagement technology company” Devs United, which focuses on Salesforce-related services.
-And in Organized Labor, BBH has joined the ranks of agencies that will no longer collaborate with SAG-AFTRA.