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  • Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014
Cannes Names Final Round of Jury Presidents
OgilvyEntertainment’s Doug Scott to preside over Branded Content & Entertainment; Smuggler’s Brian Carmody to head Film Craft Lions jury
CANNES, France -- 

The final names that will make up a collection of outstanding jury presidents at this years’ Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, have been announced by the Festival organisers, including the first ever jury president for the new Product Design Lions category: Donghoon Chang, executive VP, Samsung Electronics, South Korea

Doug Scott, president and founder, OgilvyEntertainment, has been named jury president for Branded Content & Entertainment.

Brian Carmody, co-founder and managing partner of Smuggler, will preside over the Film Craft Lions Jury.

Jaime Robinson, executive creative director, Pereira & O’Dell, is jury president for the Mobile Lions.

Rémi Babinet, founder and creative director, BETC, France, has been named jury president for the Press Lions.

Karl Heiselman, global CEO of Wolff Olins, will helm the Design Lions jury.

James McGrath, creative chairman of Clemenger BBDO Group in More

  • Monday, Feb. 17, 2014
Doug McIntyre to host Cinema Audio Society Awards
Doug McIntyre

The Cinema Audio Society announced today that Doug McIntyre has been tapped to serve as host of the upcoming 50th CAS Awards.

“I am a huge a fan of McIntyre In The Morning and I enjoy Doug’s sense of humor and perspective,” said CAS president David Fluhr. “I know he will keep our show moving with grace and humor”.

McIntyre is the host of McIntyre In The Morning on KABC 790 Los Angeles, and is a page one columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News. McIntyre's background includes work as a television writer-producer with credits including Married... with Children, WKRP in Cincinnati, Full House, Mike Hammer and the critically acclaimed PBS series, Liberty's Kids, which earned McIntyre a Humanitas Prize nomination.

With his wife, actress Penny Peyser, McIntyre wrote, produced and directed the feature documentary film, Trying to Get Good: The Jazz More

  • Monday, Feb. 17, 2014
Translation Hires Norman as partner/CCO, Peyron as president
NEW YORK -- 

Translation, the independent agency founded by Steve Stoute, has hired TBWA\Chiat\Day creative lead John Norman as partner/CCO and former TOMS CMO Nils Peyron as president.

Norman, a global and visual communicator whose career has included roles at Nike Design, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, The Martin Agency, and eight years at Wieden+Kennedy, has worked with myriad brands around the world including Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, Nike, adidas, Heineken, Walmart, Electronic Arts, Gatorade, Benetton and Southwest Airlines.

Peyron, an accomplished senior executive with diverse agency management, strategic marketing, and global brand-building experience, is an expert at leading creative teams and producing original content to drive unique brand storytelling. Prior to joining Translation, Peyron spent two years as chief marketing officer at TOMS, where he led the company’s global brand, marketing and More

  • Monday, Feb. 17, 2014
This Olympian Tweet Brought To You By Your Sponsor
Gracie Gold of the United States cheers for Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States as they compete in the team free ice dance figure skating competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, Pool)
By John Leicester, Sports Writer
SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- 

Between photos and insights about their Olympic experience, some Olympians are turning over their social media accounts to sponsors, agreeing to quotas of postings on Twitter and Facebook and letting other people send commercial messages in their name.

The agents for US figure skaters Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold both say sponsors draft some of their tweets, plugging their brands.

"This is the first Olympics where I actually have a social media calendar, where an athlete has to tweet or mention something on a given day," Gold's agent, Yuki Saegusa, said in an interview.

"We get a list of tweets or social media things that need to be posted and then we approve them for her," said Saegusa, senior vice president for Olympic clients at sports management giant IMG.

Although they "encourage" Gold to post the pre-packaged commercial tweets to her 65,000 followers herself, sometimes others do More

  • Monday, Feb. 17, 2014
Kickstarter says hackers got customer data
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Online fundraising site Kickstarter says hackers got some of its customer data.

Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler said in a blog post that hackers accessed usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords. The passwords are encrypted, but the company said it's possible for a hacker to guess a weak or obvious password. It recommended that users change their passwords.

Hackers did not get credit card information, said New York-based Kickstarter, but two accounts saw unauthorized activity.

Kickstarter is one of dozens of crowdfunding websites that let people raise money from donors for projects. Kickstarter campaigns have included Zach Braff and Spike Lee movies, a local brewery, arts projects and business startups.

The breach was disclosed Saturday on the Kickstarter blog. The company said it learned about the breach from law enforcement on Wednesday and closed it immediately More

  • Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014
John Henson, son of Muppets creator, dies in NY
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) -- 

Puppeteer John Henson, the son of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson, has died in New York. He was 48.

Cheryl Henson says her brother died of a "massive heart attack" at his home in Saugerties on Friday. She says it happened after he had been building an igloo in the snow with his daughter.

Henson followed in his famous father's footsteps as a puppeteer, performing as Sweetums the ogre in several films, including "Muppet Treasure Island" and "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie."

Cheryl said her brother also made appearances in the original Coca-Cola Polar Bear suit. She described him as an "artist who also loved working the land."

Henson was a shareholder and board member of The Jim Henson Company.

Henson leaves behind his wife Gyongyi and two daughters, ages 10 and 15. A private funeral service is planned.

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