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This week, Draftfcb is hiring a community manager, as well as a finance analyst. Meanwhile, Brigade Marketing is seeking a digital account executive, and Mullen is on the hunt for a senior vice president/group account director. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.

• Community Manager Draftfcb (Chicago, IL)
• Finance Analyst Draftfcb (Chicago, IL)
• Digital Account Executive Brigade Marketing (New York, NY)
• SVP/Group Account Director Mullen (San Francisco, CA)
• Digital Media Strategist Phelps (Santa Monica, CA)

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Bassem Youssef talks about the future of his show, the turbulent political situation in Egypt, and what it is like to be a comedian in a country plagued by violence, division and uncertainty.

As the Winter Olympians train for the Sochi games in February, many hope their performance will result in endorsement gold. Through the decades, Winter Olympians such as Dorothy Hamill, Picabo Street, Dan Jansen, Apolo Ohno and Shaun White have capitalized on their gold-medal wins by lining up strategic marketing partners. Even in the absence of Olympic gold, figure skater Michelle Kwan became one of the most popular female athletes of all time and enjoyed tremendous endorsement success.

But the Sochi athletes face hurdles that weren’t in London last year and won’t be in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Fewer viewers. The U.S. viewing audience for the winter competition has always been smaller than that of the summer games. Fewer countries compete, meaning smaller global audiences and perhaps less appeal to major multinational marketers. As a result, some Winter Olympics athletes look for ways to increase their visibility beyond the ice rink or ski slopes. After figure skater Evan Lysacek won gold in Vancouver in 2010, he chose to compete in ABC’s popular reality show “Dancing with the Stars.” By making it to the finals and spending months in front of a national TV audience, Lysacek enhanced his marketing opportunities by gaining exposure to a broader base.

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The friendly folks over at Lowe Campbell Ewald, who were named AOR for LifeLock last month, would like to wish you a happy holiday by sharing “How to pick up the right turkey this Thanksgiving.”

In the above video, the Campbell Ewald folks share turkey pick-up lines in a Thanksgiving-themed display of cringe-humor. Many of them are alterations on oft-heard bad pick-up lines, such as “Your drumsticks must be tired, because you’ve been running through my mind all day.” and “Are you a Tennessee turkey? Because you’re the only ten I see.” It helps add to the goofiness that the employees involved are all wearing turkey hats. (Where can we get those?) My personal favorite might be the straightforward, “I’m gonna gobble, gobble, gobble you up,” mostly for the great delivery. I think you probably get the idea: if you found any of those worth a chuckle you’ll probably enjoy the video. Some of these could border on sexual harassment, so be careful when employing these lines on the turkeys in your life.

The worst of the pick-up lines featured is probably, “You’re no side dish, you’re my main course.” Well, of course the turkey is the main course. That’s how Thanksgiving works. This bothers me far more than it should, but don’t let that dissuade you from watching Lowe Campbell Ewald’s 1:16 of Thanksgiving goofiness. And if that’s not enough holiday humor for you, check out Firehouse’s “Happy Twerky Day” and let us know which you liked better. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

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(TrendHunter.com) I wish my mom knew how to do what food artist Samantha Lee did with broccoli when I was younger. A stay-at-home mom, with no professional culinary experience, Lee has become an online food God of…

Envy makes advertising go round—when creatives aren't busying copying ideas, they're coveting them. D&AD celebrates that dynamic with a series of new spots, created by Wieden + Kennedy in London, to promote the awards show's 2014 call for submissions.

In the videos, industry heavyweights including Dan Wieden share their picks for work from the past year that they "wish they'd done." In Wieden's case, it's an ad by Barton F. Graf 9000 that proposes changing the titles of devastating hurricanes from apparently random names like Katrina and Sandy to names like Marco Rubio and Michele Bachmann, in an attempt to lay blame for the natural disasters on politicians who deny climate change. It's sort of like an "Oh, diss, gotcha dummy" on the dilapidated playground of American politics—but done in a way Wieden hopes will actually have some positive effect.

The other spots focus on media beyond straight advertising. For the digital category, W+K alum Iain Tait, now at Google Creative Lab, praises Philips's Internet-connected, color-changing lightbulbs. For the design category, Jessica Walsh of Sagmeister & Walsh spotlights the new "W" logo for the Whitney Museum, in what may be, perhaps unsurprisingly, the most opaque explanation to the uninitiated—because design work that looks good doesn't always translate to the most down-to-earth or persuasive argument.

The parts of the promos most worth envying may be the opening zoetrope animations that Nexus's Productions Factory Fifteen developed. The spinning toys pack in quick references to past standout work—the advertising bit, for example, includes the Guardian's "Three Little Pigs" opus (BBH), Honda's flying motors (W+K) and Cadbury's famous Phil Collins gorilla (Fallon). For insiders, the presence of such greats should amp the challenge to submit—or maybe just render it moot. Nobody is ever going to make anything half as good as a big-feeling simian beating the crap out of a drum kit.

Sprint has signed on Figiulo & Partners, Ad Age has learned.

It’s believed that Mark Figiulo’s shop will take on Leo Burnett’s above-the-line work, which consisted primarily of TV. Burnett will remain on the roster for below-the-line work such as retail.

Burnett has been the telecom’s lead creative agency since late 2011, after then-new Chief Marketing Officer Bill Malloy joined the company. He swiftly dispatched longtime agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners and appointed a Publicis Groupe team known as Team Sprint to direct the carrier’s $1.4 billion in U.S. ad spending.

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GoldieBlox, a San Francisco toymaker, removed the Beastie Boys’ song “Girls” from an online ad after the band complained, adding in a statement, “We don’t want to fight with you.”

For men’s magazines, 2013 was a very good year.

Ad pages across the category swelled 13% compared with last year, according to Media Industry Newsletter, with all but one title gaining pages.

The increase comes as many marketers are shifting more of their dollars to digital properties and spending less on magazines. Women’s fashion titles have managed to grow in this climate; industry wide, however, monthly magazines’ ad pages were essentially flat.

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