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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Money is flowing into the U.S. agency landscape again, but one group of traditional funders has been largely absent from recent deals: the Big Four holding companies. Instead, adland's M&A chatter has been dominated by names like Dentsu, Cheil, LBi and even Hearst. The shift is driven by foreign buyers' need to break into the U.S. and the media sector's desire to break into new businesses — and their willingness to pay top dollar to do it.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google will announce Monday it is eliminating the fees it has long charged agencies to tap into its search ad auction system, removing an annoyance and potentially encouraging a new round of innovation among smaller search advertisers.

“Pests have nowhere to hide. Orkin.”

Advertising Agency: Rethink Communication, Vancouver, Canada
Creative Directors: Ian Grais, Chris Staples
Art Director: Natee Likitsuwankool
Copywriter: Simon Bruyn
Agency producer: Jim Leith
Account manager: Jennifer Newsted
Studio Artist: Justin Renvoize
Photographer: Paul Lang, The Orange Apple Creative Imagery
Retouching/Illustration: The Orange Apple Creative Imagery

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Advertising Agency: TD&A DDB, Dubai
Executive Creative Director: Adham Obeid
Creative Director: Shehzad Yunus
Copywriter: Josephine Younes
Account Supervisor: Hala Seif
Art Director: Josephine Younes
Via [Dubai Lynx]

Advertising Agency: ARS DDB, Caracas, Venezuela
Executive Creative Directors: Exequiel Rodríguez, Horacio Maggi
Creative Directors: Eugenio Reyes, Gerardo Pernia
Art Directors: Eugenio Reyes, Leslie Neime
Copywriters: Julián Guarín, Heidi Nobrega, Gustavo Rubel
Photographer: Pedro Primavera
Published: January 2010

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