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Jack Honomichl, former Advertising Age columnist, founder of the trade journal Inside Research, and a man who literally defined the market-research industry as creator of its only top-company ranking, died Dec. 8 after a long illness. He was 85.

Laurence Gold, Editor and Publisher of Inside Research, who bought the publication in 1993, said Mr. Honomichl helped define an industry that had been “shrouded in the fog of obscurity” when he first started compiling what would become the “Honomichl 50” listing of top U.S. research companies in 1973.

That came after he’d launched the industry’s first trade journal, The Analyst, in 1969, and then soon after began writing the first of hundreds of The Research Beat columns for Advertising Age over 18 years.

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This feels like a Friday item, but if you have a spare moment, you might want to head on over to Pinterest and check out SS+K’s Secret Santa Shop. It’s simple to use: just look through their inventory of funny gifts, choose one and click through to its order form, then fill out the form and wait for it to arrive. You’ll be the best Secret Santa at your office, with gift choices like a pickle key chain, a bottle of Jameson, and a “Ring For Sex” bell. You might want to hurry though, because a lot of the best gifts have already been claimed — including the filthy cock soap, Pumping Iron DVD, “The Nutcropolis,” and the Potty Putter. Oh well, there’s always next year.

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Baseado em mais de 4,5 bilhões de check-ins, o Foursquare organizou uma lista com os melhores lugares em diversas cidades do mundo. Os critérios utilizados incluem mais de 30 milhões de dicas e likes deixadas pelos usuários da ferramenta geosocial.

Em cada cidade, é possível navegar entre quatro diferentes categorias, cada uma incluindo outras várias subcategorias: Alimentação; Coisas para Fazer; Vida Noturna; e uma referente a lugares típicos.

Entre as localidades brasileiras, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro estão presentes. Confira: foursquare.com/bestof

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We’ve received confirmation that Matt Walsh, who’s been with Crispin Porter + Bogusky for nearly eight years and last served as its EVP/executive experience director, has parted ways with the MDC-owned agency. CP+B says in a statement, “We are truly grateful for Matt’s many contributions leading our UX department and wish him the very best in all that we know he will accomplish going forward.”

During his time at the agency, Walsh led a team of nearly two-dozen experience designers and worked with past and present Crispin clients including VW, Domino’s, Old Navy, AmEx and Under Armour in the process. Prior to CP+B, Walsh worked on the Nike account as a senior interaction designer at R/GA, where he spent nearly three years in all. From what we’ve been told, CP+B is not planning on replacing him. Update: From what we’ve been told, Walsh is leaving CP+B to start his own experience design shop. No word on the name/details as of yet, but we’ll keep you posted.

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America's gangliest talk-show host takes on TV-commercial auditions in this skit. With the help of Killian's Workshop, Conan O'Brien—not always the most comfortable commercial endorser—reads some copy about shrimp that sounds like Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up act ("Is it 21 shrimp, or 21 shrimps?"), turns the Bite and Smile into an exploration of possibly being gay, and drives an invisible car—all while trying not to look like a total spaz. Which is to say, he tries very hard to look like a total spaz.

Thirteen minutes is a bit long for the concept they're running with here, but Conan's ruthless derision of corny ad tropes strikes gold more than once; the shrimp/shrimps-induced mental breakdown and naming the invisible car the "Ford Delusion" are two highlights. And for the record, both "shrimp" and "shrimps" are acceptable plurals.

Forecasters may predict that TV will soon peak as digital media rises, but Time Warner isn’t seeing signs of that shift yet, CEO Jeff Bewkes said at the annual UBS Global Media and Communications Conference on Tuesday.

“There’s not much going on there right now,” Mr. Bewkes said of TV ad dollars moving to digital.

Two recent forecasts have said that digital ad spending will erode TV ad budgets over the next several years.

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