Hasta La Creative!

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: There’s good news and bad news for Uber. The ride-hailing service’s next CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, has apparently accepted the job, and he wrote his staff at Expedia to let them know, Recode says. Uber board member Arianna Huffington posted a welcome note to Khosrowshahi on Twitter, adding that he would come in to talk to Uber staff Wednesday. So that’s the good news. But there’s also this: The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Uber broke U.S. laws against bribing officials in other countries, as The Washington Post reports. Which is yet another problem Khosrowshahi will inherit post-Travis Kalanick, who made “Always Be Hustlin'” one of the company’s corporate values.

Marching along?

The U.S. Army has extended its contract with McCann Worldgroup for another full year, as Ad Age’s Lindsay Stein reports. But there’s a lot going on behind the scenes in this apparently complicated agency-client relationship. McCann Worldgroup, which includes Weber Shandwick and UM, has had the business for 12 years, but the Army excluded it from a recent agency review. McCann found that decision “arbitrary and capricious,” and it registered an official protest with the Government Accountability Office last month. What’s next? Stay tuned, since the accountability office has to make a decision within 100 days.

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