Hasta La Creative!

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Amanda Vendal has spent the past 17 years working at one of the largest independent shops in the country, Richards Group. Early on, she developed a knack for being a talent scout, and today she serves as one of three full-time recruiters Richards currently employs at its Dallas headquarters. Ms. Vendal took some time to tell us what she's up to these days — which, even in this economy, includes hiring.

AOP SUMMIT – The online video panel discussion at today’s AOP Summit contained words of caution for publishers, with Channel 4’s Errol Barran telling them not to expect to make money from moving content in the short term.

AOP SUMMIT – Publishers and media agencies must work more closely together to derive increased revenue from digital activity, delegates at the Association of Online Publishers 3C Summit were told today.

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — Procter & Gamble Co. is enlisting help from mommy bloggers as it makes over its custom-published quarterly Rouge beauty magazine from Canada for a full-scale U.S. launch expected to reach 11 million households in the two countries by next year.

OMFG. This has to be the worst “viral” ever created.

(TrendHunter.com) Beauty pagents were never my thing (with all of the manners, poise and feathered hair). I just couldn’t win one. But it seems all may not be lost for me, as illustrated by Alternative Miss World Fancy…

LONDON – Google has gone back to basics, launching a website and YouTube video to explain to the masses exactly what a browser is.

Here’s an approach to doggy family planning we haven’t seen before.

LONDON – Skype is set to unleash its largest UK branding drive to date following the appointment a trio of agencies – Wolff Olins, TBWA\ and Rapp.

You know those ratings that precede every movie you see in the theater? Well, the Vancouver International Film Festival has a new one.