Dentsu Inc. reveals pure holding company plans | MARC USA, Andy Warhol Museum gift food bank with Campbell's Soup | Deutsch cures Barkley's betting woes with DraftKings
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[Dentsu Inc. reveals pure holding company plans](
Dentsu Inc. has announced second-quarter growth of 5.9% and stated that it's considering becoming a pure holding company by January 2020. The company, which owns Dentsu Aegis Network -- parent of Carat and 360i -- currently acts both as an operating and holding company, and it is the fifth biggest agency company globally, Ad Age Datacenter reports. [Ad Age (tiered subscription model)]( (8/9), [MediaPost Communications]( (8/9), [The Drum (Scotland)]( (8/9), [Campaign Asia (free registration)]( (8/10)
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[MARC USA, Andy Warhol Museum gift food bank with Campbell's Soup](
MARC USA and the Andy Warhol Museum celebrated what would have been the artist's 90th birthday by donating 1,080 cans of Campbell's Soup to the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. The delivery pallet was covered with a giant note that read, "It's my 90th birthday, but I wanted you to have the gifts." [MediaPost Communications]( (8/9)
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[Deutsch cures Barkley's betting woes with DraftKings](
Deutsch tapped Charles Barkley for a series of spots for digital sports betting firm DraftKings in which he gets various humorous checkups from the brand's quirky character, Dr. AftKings. "Good News, Bad News" features Barkley being diagnosed with "Acute Win Deficiency" and prescribed the DraftKings Sportsbook app as a cure. [The Drum (Scotland)]( (8/9), [Legal Sports Report]( (8/9)
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[Analysis: Brands are not fully tapping into mobile gaming](
Nearly 4 in 5 smartphone users play games on their devices every day and, on average, spend 6.5 hours weekly doing so, per Ipsos. But brands have been slow to fully recognize the marketing value of the gaming space, Welby Chen writes. [Adweek (tiered subscription model)]( (8/8)
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[How agencies are creating workarounds for Amazon](
Amazon's recent move to consolidate its ad offerings into a single platform offers some solace to advertisers that say the firm isn't developing its ad business quickly enough to satisfy their demands. Ad buyers are using workarounds such as Performics' Caiman dashboard, which automates campaigns for Amazon's search ads and iProspect's tool for the platform's self-service ad buying to improve reporting and ad selection through keyword analysis. [AdExchanger]( (8/9)
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Havas' Victors & Spoils, the shop that created the creative crowdsourcing model, has closed its doors. "I still believe deeply in the Victors & Spoils vision, that creativity can come from everywhere, and will stay focused on pursuing that larger agenda," said co-founder John Winsor, who left the agency in 2015 and went on to launch You & Mr. Jones. [Adweek (tiered subscription model)]( (8/9)
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[Study: YouTube gains ground in US web traffic](
Study: YouTube gains ground in US web traffic
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Google remains the most popular website in terms of US web traffic, but Facebook may lose its second-place spot to YouTube, based on recent page-visit trends, SimilarWeb reports. The numbers do not include Facebook's other assets, including Instagram and WhatsApp. [CNBC]( (8/8)
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