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(TrendHunter.com) Mickey Mouse turned 80, marking a huge anniversary in the history of cartoons. Innovation played a tremendous role getting illustration and design to evolve from the first days of Walt Disney’s most famous…

Producers have already shot segments for the series’s sixth season, but those new episodes are unlikely to be seen for several months, according to people involved in the case.

(TrendHunter.com) Santa has to keep his jollu body fit with all those presents he needs to deliver, right children?

Here are ten of the best fit Santas, a bizarre visual to associate with a fat old guy with a beard, I…

Things are pretty bleak up in Canada these days, judging by this dark and moody spot from BBDO Montreal for the Quebec Federation of Milk Producers. In it, we see Canadians silently savoring any hint of light in their dreary landscape—a ballerina’s dress, a grandpa’s birthday cake; a ghostly white horse reverse commuting. In the end, we see a girl settling in with a big glass of milk, which is positioned as “a natural source of comfort.” The spot was directed by Yves-Christian Fournier, who knows the material pretty well, having just made an indie film about teen suicide. Of course, if milk doesn’t cheer these people up, they have a wide array of other beverage options.

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MSNBC kicked Dan Abrams to the curb this fall. Now the lawyer, color commentator, show host and former MSNBC General Manager, is organizing a new PR firm that he plans to staff with journalists.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Abrams Research will help business executives navigate public-relations challenges — from major acquisitions to bothersome bloggers to outright scandals.

The firm’s chief selling point will be a network of media insiders whose advice is available in exchange for an hourly fee. Mr. Abrams has assembled a roster of “thousands” of such professionals, he says, with the aid of former Huffington Post media writer Rachel Sklar.

“The goal is to create a global media community,” says Mr. Abrams.

But not so fast…the Abrams Plan has a critic.

“While it makes sense for business, for working journalists to be moonlighting as business consultants is ultimately going to degrade the credibility of journalism even further,” says Trevor Butterworth, a fellow at the nonpartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs. “It’s really offering a weapon to activist groups of any kind to say: ‘We can’t trust journalism anymore.'”

I didn’t realize we could trust journalists now.

LONDON – TalkSport has said it has no plans to re-employ a radio DJ who was named as a former member of the British National Party after its membership list was controversially leaked.

So what does an “aging” Disney star do when she gets too old for Mickey? She gets nude.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Over the next six months, not only will ad spending be down, but the feeling among advertisers and their agencies toward media such as broadcast TV, national newspapers and magazines is growing more pessimistic. The dreary outlook is courtesy of the new Advertiser Optimism Report by Advertiser Perceptions.

Transport for London (TFL) wants to know how alert you are. Really, they do. And to test your abilities, they created a campaign called, “Do the Test”. Watch the video above (and the two you’ll find after the jump) and then tell us if you think these are effective ads.

The campaign is for cycle awareness, but TFL’s test has nothing to do with bikes &#151 and instead measures your ability to focus on superfluous activities by changing certain elements in each situation (each video is a different scenario). Translation: how much do you notice about the world around you? Click continued to see the other test videos (they’re about a minute long, each). And don’t forget to tell us what you think.

More: “Do The Test“

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