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Gamers love Pokmon Go. The mobile app’s developers, however, are finding European authorities a bit more difficult to win over.

The game has smashed app download records — but consumer watchdogs across Europe are raising questions about the contract customers must agree to before using it. The terms of service waive a player’s rights to courtroom representation as a plaintiff or class action member in favor of binding, individual arbitration unless the user opts out within a month of the download.

This month’s release of the app that allows players to hunt Pokmon in their own backyards led to a frenzy with consumers and investors. Nintendo, creators of the Pokemon franchise and investors in developer Niantic, saw its market value double in the immediate wake of the game’s release, surging by $17.6 billion. That boost has been tempered by questions about how much Nintendo will benefit, and whether groups will fight to improve the terms for consumers.

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Mr. Glaser, 87, created one of the most potent images of the last century, I ? NY, a rallying symbol when the city and state were in crisis in 1977.

CP+B Miami named three new creative directors with the hiring of Juan Perez and the promotions of Alvaro Ramos and Jeff Siegel.

Ramos and Siegel have worked as a creative team at CP+B Miami for the past year and a half, working with brands including Vonage, Ryder, Mission 22, Santa Margherita and letgo as associate creative directors, following Siegel’s arrival from Energy BBDO. With Energy BBDO, Siegel served as vice president, associate creative director and worked with clients including Wrigley, Lay’s Quaker, Ziploc and Raid. He previously spent time with agencies including Cole & Weber and Publicis. Ramos arrived at CP+B Miami around four and a half years ago, following nearly four and half years with The Vidal Partnership, working with clients including Sprint, Cadbury Adams, Rémy Martin and the Ad Council. Before that he served in art director roles for agencies including 180 Amsterdam, BBDO, Leo Burnett and FCB. 

“Alvaro and Jeff have been stars here for a while,” CP+B chairman Chuck Porter said in a statement. “They’re not just serious talents, they never quit – they have the passion and drive that it takes to actually get good work produced. And Juan, well, he made himself so valuable during his freelance stint that we just had to get him here for real. This is all really good news for Miami and for CP+B.”

Perez joins CP+B full-time after a period as a freelance creative director and art director with CP+B’s Los Angeles office, after a year as a group creative director and art director with Grupo Gallegos, working with brands including Mitsubishi, Comcast, Valvoline and JCPenney. Prior to that he spent two years as co-executive creative director and art director at Blitz in Los Angeles, where he worked with brands such as Naked Juice, CiCi’s Pizza and Mirage Resort & Casino. That followed two years as a creative director/art director with Siltanen + Partners, working with brands including Yakult, Skechers, Kindle and Suzuki. Before that he spent a year as vice president, executive creative director with Mullen, working on brands such as DSW Shoes and T.J.Maxx, after three years as senior vice president, group creative director/art director with Energy BBDO, working with such clients as Wrigley and Jim Beam.

Barbarian Creative Director Jill Applebaum and Chief Techology Officer Robert Christ are the latest to leave the Cheil-owned digital shop as it copes with a talent exodus and financial difficulties, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ms. Applebaum, who left JWT to join New York-based Barbarian a year ago, is now a creative lead within Facebook’s Creative Shop Studio, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ms. Applebaum and Mr. Christ’s exits are the latest in a string of senior executive departures. It started with CEO Sophie Kelly stepping down last December after two years at the helm. She was replaced by Cheil Chief Digital Officer Peter Kim. Since then Chief Creative Officer Edu Pou, head of talent and HR Michele Prota, head of account management Sherri Chambers and co-founders Keith Butters and Benjamin Palmer, among others, have left Barbarian.

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One day after Facebook posted its best quarter yet, with ad revenue up 63% to $6.2 billion, Alphabet beat analysts’ expectations with results including a 19% lift in Google ad revenue to $19.2 billion.

The company’s ad business wrung more money from a swelling mobile user base and better cost controls.

The results are likely to further stoke investors’ love affair with the companies and marketers’ trepidation about their collective power in digital media. Alternatives are distant pursuers: Twitter on Tuesday reported a slowdown in advertiser interest and posted $600 million in revenue for the quarter.

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