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Blogs: Power 150 Blog

Google PageRank, We Barely Knew Thee

Charlie Moran

Published: August 25, 2009

As we mentioned in the last post, we've been having issues with Google PageRank, and some blogs have been unfairly receiving zeroes from it lately. Today we fixed the problem by removing PageRank altogether.

Stories: People & Players

Bailey Lauerman Names Roman Paluta VP-CMO

Jeremy Mullman

Published: August 25, 2009

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Nebraska-based Bailey Lauerman has hired Roman Paluta as VP-chief marketing officer. Mr. Paluta, 49, a 20-year industry veteran, spent the past 10 years at Carmichael-Lynch, where he first led account management and spent his last eight years as CMO, leading new-business efforts.

Stories: News

Nielsen and IRI Team Up to Use Single Pool of Panelists

Jack Neff

Published: August 25, 2009

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- Longtime research rivals Nielsen Co. and Information Resources Inc. are burying the hatchet to use a single national pool of households for their consumer panels, forming a joint venture that creates a sort of public utility for measuring such things as the buying habits of Walmart shoppers.

Stories: People & Players

Mediabrands Names Lowe's Scott Beltran CIO

Published: August 25, 2009

Mediabrands has appointed Scott Beltran exec VP-chief information officer. He joins Mediabrands from Lowe Worldwide, where he had been chief information/innovation officer since 2007. While holding that post, Mr. Beltran also served as chief information officer of Interpublic Group of Cos.' independent agencies. Before he came to Lowe, Mr. Beltran was a senior executive at Accenture, Avanade (Microsoft) and Deloitte Consulting.

Blogs: Adages

U.K. PSA Will Make You Reconsider Texting (or Ill)

Ken Wheaton

Published: August 25, 2009

The U.K.'s Gwent Police Authority certainly knows how to drive its anti-texting point home.

Blogs: The Big Tent

Do All Asians Wear Costumes in Kentucky?

Ken Wheaton

Published: August 25, 2009

It's probably because I'm white that it took me more than two months to figure out what was bugging me about this Kentucky Grilled Chicken commercial from DraftFCB.

Stories: Digital

YouTube to Capitalize When Viral Lightning Strikes

Michael Learmonth

Published: August 25, 2009

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- YouTube is looking to turn those bolts-from-the-blue viral videos from cash drain into advertising gold. The video-sharing site, under pressure from parent Google to start turning a profit, today began placing ads on the kind of one-off viral hits -- mostly uploaded by the amateurs that made the site famous -- that, until now, haven't had advertising.

Blogs: GoodWorks

Be Bold: Go 'Bald' With Small Army

Jeff Freedman

Published: August 25, 2009

Jeff Freedman, co-founder of Small Army, a Boston-based agency, has launched a new initiative to honor his late business partner, Mike Connell. Its first event: "Be Bold, Be Bald!" -- a Sept. 17 effort to inspire others while raising money for cancer-related charities.

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