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During John Landgraf’s 14 years at FX, no single creator has contributed more to the network’s legacy than Ryan Murphy, Adweek’s reigning TV Creator of the Year. Murphy’s groundbreaking shows for the network include Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story, Feud, American Crime Story (whose second installment, The Assassination of Gianni Versace, is currently airing) and the…

After eight years without a chief operating officer, Square business lead Francoise Brougher will become Pinterest’s first on March 12. Why add a COO now, after going without one since it was founded in March 2010? “We think it’s the right time in our business to benefit from a world-class operations leader,” Pinterest said. “There…

Today, Ogilvy further tied its fortunes to Hogarth, parent company WPP’s group of in-house production companies. Worldwide chairman & CEO John Seifert announced that the two networks would form a new “global partnership” by consolidating their respective services into “a new studio ecosystem” that combines Hogarth’s production capabilities with Ogilvy’s creative and client services teams…

YouTube announced a series of updates to its YouTube Live livestreaming platform. Replays of Live videos now feature chat replay, allowing replay viewers to read the conversation as it originally unfolded during the livestream. YouTube will also roll out English-language automatic captions for livestreams in the coming weeks. Automatic captioning was originally launched in 2009…

How do you advertise space-age transportation technology that doesn’t exist yet? By taking a long, nostalgic look at what came before it. That’s the approach taken by Micky Coyne and Pete Harvey–two independent creatives who’ve been working directly with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and its CMO, Robert Miller–in an evocative, beautifully shot 1:20 spot rolling out…

Funny or Die released a poignant PSA today in partnership with nonprofit Rise, tackling the #MeToo movement. The PSA takes a somewhat dark approach by using the popular board game Guess Who? to address the pervasiveness of sexual assault not only in Hollywood, but across the country. In typical Funny or Die fashion, the PSA…

The 2018 Winter Olympic Games reached their end with Sunday night’s closing ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea, and Twitter said 103 million tweets were sent about the Games, generating 33.6 billion impressions (views on and off Twitter). Jay Bavishi, Twitter’s partner manager for the International Olympic Committee and the F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association, shared…

Audi is out with a new car that’s so exciting, it’ll give you a reason to live, says a new ad from Venables Bell & Partners. In the spot, a family gathers around an old man’s death bed. Somber violin music plays as three generations watch him inhale raggedly, his eyes closed. “I’ve spent my…

Microchip Technology is in advanced talks to buy Microsemi, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the latest in a wave of deals sweeping the semiconductor industry.

The nation’s top telecommunications regulator laid out his plan for accelerating the development of 5G wireless service in the U.S. through market-oriented approaches.