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A group of music publishers has sued Fullscreen, a leading supplier of videos to YouTube, saying that many of its videos infringe on their copyrights.

A flurry of agency deals and moves in the mid-to-late ’80s put players in place — WPP and Martin Sorrell, now 68; Publicis and Maurice Levy, 71; Omnicom and John Wren, 60 — who would go on to lead the advertising business through decades of consolidation. We combed the Ad Age archives to provide an overview that helps put the megamerger of Publicis Groupe and Omnicom into context.

1985

Martin Sorrell, finance director at Saatchi & Saatchi Co., took a stake in Wire & Plastic Products, a publicly traded U.K. wire-shopping-basket manufacturer. In 1986, Mr. Sorrell renamed the basket company WPP Group, using it as a platform to acquire marketing-services ventures. WPP still owns the wire-products business, which goes to market as Delfinware.

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In this visually stunning, Tron-inspired light show, Adidas Football is hawking its Lionel Messi line—specifically, the Adizero F50 Messi boot. If you don’t know who Messi is, you need to get out from under your rock. “He is the best player in the world,” according to Pedro, my partner, who is from Brazil, where people do know about these things. The brand attached hundreds of hand sewn LEDs to Adidas TechFit gear Messi was wearing, and then filmed him at 1000 frames per second with a phantom camera. Apparently, it's the sort of thing that makes football fans fall to their knees and drool. I guess the spot, titled "The New Speed of Light," is saying that he moves real good, or something. But who cares? It looks freaking rad. Credits after the jump. (Via The Inspiration Room)

Client: Adidas Football
Agency: Iris Worldwide, London
Creative: Adam Fish
Managing Partner: Henry Scotland
Agency Producer: Sophie Horner
Account Director: Simon Voxall
Adidas Global Brand Director: Thomas Van Schaik
Film Studio: ML Studio 
Producer: Phil Tidy
Post Producer: Mark Logue
Film Director: Marcus Lyall

Facebook announced small changes to its news-feed ranking algorithms today, promising more visibility into tweaks that could affect the exposure of organic posts going forward.

News feed has been a sore subject for Facebook over the last year. The event comes in the wake of an outcry last fall, when users and marketers alike reported that the organic reach of their posts had fallen off, in some cases dramatically. GroupM Next, for one, did a study into pages operated by 25 big brands that showed that the number of users seeing posts from a brand they “liked” was down 38% over a five-week period.)

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Mr. Suares, the first Op-Ed page art director at The New York Times, began a visual era for editorial illustrations that influenced many other publications.

I have basically one indelible memory from the April 17, 2000 launch party for O, The Oprah Magazine: the moment Diana Ross arrived. Everything else is a blur.

I was at the party because, during the preceding five months, I’d served as consulting executive editor at the magazine — I was a hands-on launch consultant, basically — and I needed a drink. Many drinks. (It was an exhausting launch.)

In addition to O mag staffers, Oprah’s famous friends and assorted media-world grandees packed the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. I should state here that since I’m a longtime New Yorker, my default mode upon encountering celebrities is a certain blas stance.

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