Advertising: A Home Fixup Campaign for the Web

Ikea sent five employees on a home renovation tour, which they are filming for the Web.

    



P.R. Agency Adds L.G.B.T. Practice

MWW said it would acquire and absorb the Macias Media Group in Los Angeles, which focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender consumers.

    



Big City: A Tabloid Bashing, and a Lost Job With the Mayor

Lis Smith, a young political operative, seemed to be an obvious choice for a post in City Hall — until the news media learned about her relationship with Eliot Spitzer.

    

Roger Richman, 69, Dies; Lobbied for Stars’ Heirs

Mr. Richman is widely credited with helping to invent a multimillion-dollar industry built on licensing the rights to images of dead celebrities.

    



Advertising: P.R. Agency Begins a Push to Modernize

The Burson-Marsteller initiative, which begins Monday, includes meetings of thought leaders, a revamped employee training program and a worldwide strategic leadership team.

    



Advertising: The Fight Against Bullying in Schools Expands to Store Shelves

Several companies are running public-service campaigns that target parents and children with calls for bravery and leadership.

    



Advertising: Spot Shares Moments of Better Cruise Memories

Carnival Cruise Lines has created a new campaign it hopes will put behind it the incident that stranded passengers last February.

    



How Syria Media Advisers Decided Who Would Speak to President Assad

After Charlie Rose broadcast an hourlong talk with Bashar al-Assad on PBS, George Stephanopoulos of ABC was invited to do the same, but the rug was pulled out from under him.

    



Advertising: An Agency Takes Its Clients’ Wares on the Road for Show and Tell

VP&C, a public relations firm, is doing a marketing tour out of a motor home — fitted out with client merchandise ranging from faucets to dinnerware.

    



Advertising: A Wienermobile Road Rally, Mapped Out by Fans on Social Media

Social media services like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are shifting how brands, like Oscar Mayer, Chevrolet and A.1., use events as promotions.

    

Advertising: Allen & Gerritsen to Merge With the Neiman Group

The two independent agencies want to expand to handle larger accounts and compete better.

    

David Mamet and Other Big Authors Choose to Self-Publish

Self-publishing is expanding beyond first-time writers who can’t get deals, as big names like the playwright and author David Mamet are choosing this route, another sign that digital disruption is reshaping the publishing market.

    

Webdenda: Webdenda

American Association of Advertising Agencies, New York, is joining with units of the McCann Worldgroup to sponsor a contest that will seek ideas to help market the ad industry to a broader audience.

Webdenda: Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising Industry

Kim Corrigan joined the New York office of Rosetta, part of the Publicis Groupe, in a new post, partner in the health care vertical.