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Don’t worry if you didn’t get the GCSE results you wanted. This crazy business called advertising doesn’t care about what you did or didn’t do at school.

First came the scary puppets and then came the scarily predictable gender stereotypes, says Nicola Kemp.

Dominic Goldman, the former executive creative director of Grey London, has re-emerged as the global creative director at the production company Iconoclast.

Airbnb has partnered with US actor Danny Glover in an attempt to overcome suggestions that the platform is discriminatory.

Crispin Porter & Bogusky has appointed Erik Sollenberg, the chief executive of sister agency Forsman & Bodenfors, to be the ad agency’s new global chief executive, succeeding Lori Senecal.

Barclaycard is piloting a self-service ice cream van, which allows customers to serve and pay for their ice cream using their contactless card.

Will the consumer be the biggest winner from the new EU privacy rules?

Public Health England has rolled out a new “One you” physical activity campaign with an accompanying fitness app.

Good morning. Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing and digital-related news. What people are talking about today: The industry is still digesting the big news from yesterday the disappointing half-year financial results from the world’s largest advertising company, WPP. Its stock plunged 12%, yanking down other ad firms’ shares too. WPP said the company would barely grow next year, blaming cutbacks in spending by consumer packaged goods brands, as Ad Age’s Laurel Wentz notes. But there could be another under-the-radar factor weighing on holding company revenues lately U.S. marketers’ concerns over transparency in media spending, as Ad Age’s Jack Neff and Lindsay Stein write. The pair also coined a phrase for yesterday’s shock stock: “WPP Wednesday.”

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Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Note 8, a phone with a supersized screen and specs, which is set to go on sale Sept. 15. Wired calls it “a beast of a smartphone.” Quartz, getting straight to the point, calls it “the phone that must not explode.” It’s the successor to the Note 7, which was recalled after defective batteries caused some of them to ignite. There’s a special deal for those who got burned last time: Samsung will give Note 7 buyers a $425 discount off the new phablet. The phones start at around $950.

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