Hasta La Creative!

This week, J. Walter Thompson is hiring an art director, and MATTE is looking for a creative studio manager. Magnani Caruso Dutton needs an interactive designer, while Fuse Interactive is seeking a copywriter/associate creative director. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.

• Art Director J. Walter Thompson (Houston, TX)
• Creative Studio Manager MATTE (New York, NY)
• Interactive Designer Magnani Caruso Dutton (New York, NY)
• Copywriter/Associate Creative Director Fuse Interactive (Laguna Beach, CA)
• Experienced Account Executive RODE Advertising (New York, NY)

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Movimento por um #FutebolMelhor já conta com hinos para os clubes paulistas e cariocas

> LEIA MAIS: Em nome da paz no futebol, Brahma unifica hinos de times

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The comedian did not include jokes in Thursday’s opening, and he chose instead to criticize what he felt was an idle response to the violence.

Depois de uma série de projetos irregulares, estúdio retoma o caminho de suas melhores obras

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The cover of next week’s New Yorker is a powerful reference to the mass shooting that killed nine people on Wednesday, June 17, at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. “It’s distressing contemplating another story like this,” artist Barry Blitt said of the shootings. The issue, with a cover titled “Nine” in reference to the victims of the shooting, goes on sale Monday.

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So AKQA has had a nice string of wins recently: just this week, the agency expanded its digital role on the Verizon account. Last month it became Volvo’s lead digital agency, and in April it named three members of its global creative team to ECD roles.

That said, something seems to be happening to the agency’s Glassdoor profile.

Just this week, several people who identify themselves as current employees shared their conspiracy theories:

Where are these “fake” reviews?

Does the agency not “appreciate its employees”? Is it not “inspiring?” Can it not be “rewarding and challenging in equal measure?” Does working at this particular shop not allow one to make “friends for life?”

We will choose not to disbelieve these sentiments, but some employees doubt the sincerity of the five-star reviews, classifying them as the ad agency equivalent of “astroturfing.”

This is not an uncommon practice in many industries! Take Edelman, the world’s largest PR firm. Not only does it have more big-name clients than its competitors…it also happens to have a whopping 1,100 reviews on Glassdoor–the vast majority of them suspiciously positive given what we’ve heard from former employees. It often appears on the “best places to work” list, and in 2014 its chief was the third-highest rated boss on the site.

Coincidence? Probably.

(TrendHunter.com) People are going to be treated to a nostalgic trip down memory lane starring Marky Mark thanks to the latest Calvin Klein Underwear collection to hit Urban Outfitters. Based around the brand’s…

In what is surely one of the most bizarre campaigns for a snack brand we’ve seen, BMB London launched the 90-second “Dark Secrets Revealed!” for KP Snacks’ crisp brand (that’s chips to us Americans) Space Raider.

The online spot, which will run for two weeks, was preceded by teasers posted on YouTube and Facebook promising leaked footage revealing “astonishing secrets,” with the spot retargeted to those who viewed the trailers. Shot in a style meant to mimic leaked government footage, it shows scientists discovering and dissecting an alien. After removing an unidentified organ, one of the scientists announces that he’s found something and pulls out a Space Raider, announcing, “Pickled…onion, if I’m not mistaken.” Viewers are then called upon to “Help us eat their babies before they take over the Earth.” BMB London and Space Raiders clearly are banking on the spot’s bizarreness and WTF factor making it shareable.

“We are very excited to have created an out of this world film for Space Raiders, an iconic snack brand, loved by many since childhood and now being rediscovered by a new audience online,” said George Johnston, marketing director of KP Snacks. “We always knew that Space Raiders would take over the earth and now we’ve found the footage to prove it!”

Earlier this month Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced he would be stepping down from his post on July 1, and Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey would take over as interim CEO.

There are a lot of questions over what the move means for Twitter at large, but there are also questions over what it means for the company’s ad business and its advertisers. Ad Age put some of those questions — and others solicited from advertising and agency execs — to Twitter’s President of Global Revenue and Partnerships Adam Bain, who’s said to be a frontrunner for the permanent CEO role, and a bit of a fashion icon.

Mr. Bain talked about his working relationship with Mr. Dorsey, Twitter’s product pipeline — including Project Lightning — and how, in his words, “Twitter is becoming a much more media-centric consumer experience.”

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A new satirical video series in Gaza pokes fun at Palestinian leaders, and tests boundaries set by the Hamas-led government.