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Domino’s Pizza today placed an order of its own: more time with its longtime creative agency CP&B, despite a number of key people on the account leaving last year.

The nation’s second-largest pizza chain said it finalized a renewal agreement with CP&B that keeps the pair together through the end of 2020. As Domino’s national agency of record, CP&B handles creative, brand strategy, media planning, and digital initiatives.

“Lengthy creative agency partnerships are rare, to say the least. But after looking at what we’ve accomplished with CP&B, it should not be shocking,” Domino’s Chief Marketing Officer Joe Jordan said in a statement, calling CP&B “a true extension of our team.”

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For those of a certain generation, he will always be remembered as the comic foil to singer Dean Martin. To another, he was the slapstick star of movies like “The Nutty Professor” and a hero to French cinema goers. And to many, he was the public face of the Labor Day Muscular Distrophy Telethon from 1966 to 2010, where he raised more than $1 billion for the disease.

We’ll leave the details of the complicated life of Jerry Lewis, who died at age 91 yesterday, to others like the New York Times and Vanity Fair.

But since we’re Ad Age, we remember Lewis in another manner: For his role in print and TV advertising. During his life, he was pitchman for many products, including Royal Crown Cola, Chesterfield cigarettes, KFC and more. Below is a sample of some of his ad work.

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Facebook might have a deal with Major League Baseball to officially stream 20 games this summer, but unofficially games are being pirated across the social network all the time, as stolen sports plague live video channels and private groups.

Piracy, while nothing new, poses a greater challenge than ever to Facebook because of its fledgling video hub called Watch, in which it hopes to attract top media partners. It specifically needs solid relationships with sports leagues like MLB. It’s impossible to know if the number of pirate streams are growing or exactly how much piracy has infiltrated the network.

However, sports are big business on digital platforms, where the National Football League charges $50 million for the right to run just 10 of its games. Meanwhile, the ease of piracy has made games freely open on Facebook live and YouTube, where the problem has been well documented, too.

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Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor Co. told Automotive News it is interested in buying the Jeep brand and has reached out to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to see whether a deal can be negotiated.

The move would slice Jeep from the rest of FCA’s brands, leaving question marks over the future of Fiat, Chrysler, Dodge and Ram. FCA already said it would consider splitting Alfa Romeo and Maserati into their own company.

Great Wall President Wang Fengying, listed by Fortune as the seventh most powerful woman in Asia, wrote in an email to Automotive News that Great Wall intends to buy Jeep and is “connecting with FCA” to begin negotiations.

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Snapchat is rapidly becoming home to news for the teen and tween set. CNN is the latest news organization working with the chat platform on a daily news show.

“The Update” will debut on Monday and air daily at 6 p.m. ET, delivering at least five stories from CNN’s news teams around the world and updating with breaking news segments. The show will run about three minutes and CNN promises it won’t be dumbing-down the news for the platform.

As Snapchat continues to push into original, TV-like content, it’s beginning to find its footing in the news space. NBC News’ twice daily show “Stay Tuned,” has been watched by 29 million unique viewers since it debuted in mid-July, and Snapchat’s first original in-house show, “Good Luck America,” saw its viewership climb 53% from its first to second season. Snapchat also airs the pop-culture news show “The Rundown,” produced by E! three times per week, and has partnerships with The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Economist, among others, to curate news content.

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Calling himself “Bannon the Barbarian,” the president’s former strategy adviser says he’s ready to “crush” his foes inside and outside the White House.