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Worldwide media buyer ZenithOptimedia said that full-year advertis- ing spending in the United States will end up slightly high-er than it predicted earlier this year, despite a lagging econo-...

Bill Gates, head of the world's largest software company, predicts a future for the entertainment industry in which traditional broadcast television is rendered irrelevant. It's a positive vision...

Director Darren Grant has joined the rosters of X-Ray Productions, bicoastal and Chicago, and sister house merge@crossroads, Los Angeles. Grant will helm...

Z Group Films, Venice and Chicago, has signed director Kohl Norville, who most recently was repped via Element Productions, New York. He joins a company roster that includes directors Paul...

The Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus recently announced that Nakajima USA Inc., marketers of the Pirates of the Caribbean Water Slide, said it...

Director Scotty Bergstein, formerly of Area 51 Films, Santa Monica, has joined New York-based Highway 61 for U.S. representation. He had been at Area 51 since 2000, which followed stints with The...

As the days tick down to the Nov. 2 election, the presidential campaigns have shifted their advertising dollars to a handful of states where the vote is expected to be a toss up.

Miami has...

The Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) is launching a chapter in Toronto, the first outside the U.S. This marks the beginning of what is intended to be an expansion into...

American employers hoping to hire foreign workers through the H-1B visa program this fiscal year had better look elsewhere. The allotment of 65,000 such specialty visas for 2004-'05 has been used...

Returning to San Francisco for the first time since 1998, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention is set to get underway at the Moscone Convention Center on Oct. 28. With the theme "Art of...