-Former W+K and Mother London creative director Feh Tarty‘s creative consulting agency Stay in School worked with Sovage director Ben Strebel on this music video for PARISI‘s “No Refuge” featuring RZA (video above).
–Over two dozen companies have now pulled advertising from The O’Reilly Factor over host Bill O’Reilly‘s sexual harassment scandal.
-Listen up, kids: Six ad vets weigh in with advice for young creatives.
-A broadcast spot for Kaspersky online security created by WPP’s Berlin-based agency KKLD was banned by the ASA for “normalizing” sexting.
-How is Mars making its media agencies more diverse? Vice president, marketing Michele Oliver says she mandates female directors, among other things.
-Toronto-based design and digital agency Blackjet picked up three new clients: the Canadian Association of Orthodontists (CAO), global equipment and solutions supplier Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. and the Bloor-Dufferin Place Branding and Real Estate Marketing Assignment, “a 7.3-acre mixed-use residential development.”
-Cutters Detroit appointed Kurt Kulas as managing director.
–New York/San Francisco-based content creation/production company BODEGA launched am animation division led by executive producer Bill Hewes.
-Editor Brian May is moving to Whitehouse Post’s Chicago office.