Hasta La Creative!

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — More major media companies are looking for ways to find cheap content. Thomson Reuters, Cox Newspapers and Hachette Filipacchi have run articles supplied by Associated Content, one of several companies, such as Demand Media and AOL's SEED, that mines reporting from masses of freelancers for as little as $5 a story.

LONDON – Wieden + Kennedy New York has appointed Google Creative Lab’s Stuart Smith as head of planning.

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LONDON – The controversial dramatisation ‘Five Daughters’ drew 5.4 million viewers to its final episode on BBC One, according to unofficial overnight figures.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — AOL reported a 19% decline in online ad revenue in the second quarter, and it announced the sale of instant messaging service ICQ for $187.5 million in cash to Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies.

LONDON – Chris Hancox, vice-president of marketing and creative services at MTV Network’s Comedy Central, is set to leave the company after 10 years after a restructure.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — U.S. Hispanic newspaper group ImpreMedia is putting a digital expert in charge of the company's bilingual magazine Vista with the appointment of Liz Sarachek Blacker as publisher.

A visualização abaixo nos dá uma ideia do que o vulcão Eyjafjallajokull (sim, eu copiei e colei o nome) causou no espaço aéreo europeu: um reboot dos milhares de vôos diários.

Mas acho que mais impressionante do que ver a pausa, é a normalização a partir do dia 20. Um formigueiro de aviões. A produção do vídeo é da ItoWorld, com dados do Flight Radar 24.

LONDON – Young’s beers has formed a commercial partnership with the London Evening Standard in a bid to boost the pub trade and promote its cask ale.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — L'Oreal has consolidated its $700 million U.S. media-buying account with Interpublic Group of Cos.' Universal McCann, executives with knowledge of the matter said. The cosmetics behemoth launched an "evaluation" of the account, which was previously handled by UM and Publicis Groupe's Zenith Optimedia, back in late March.