Hasta La Creative!

Beck Bennett, 28, is a comedian and writer who poses deadpan questions to an array of adorable children in a near-omnipresent AT&T ad campaign.

Tom Wheeler, President Obama’s choice to lead the agency, said its support of competition was especially important because of Americans’ dependence on communications networks.

A National Security Agency program took e-mails and other information from companies that included Google, Apple and Facebook, according to documents that emerged on Thursday. A government official said the program targeted only foreigners abroad.

Assorted queries about advertising, the media and popular culture.

A law school professor is on a permanent campaign to argue that the telecom and cable industry has been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation and overcharge consumers.

The company is building on those commercials by offering consumers the chance to send personalized video cards.

Aereo denies stations the fees cable operators pay to retransmit their signals, so networks are determined to shut it down — even, they say, if they have to go cable-only.

To take advantage of its sponsorship of the 2013 N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, AT&T and its advertising agency are creating commercials with basketball themes that are inspired by the series of well-received commercials for AT&T that carry the theme “It’s not complicated.”

Account assignments, executive appointments and miscellaneous news from advertising agencies.