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Today is Thursday, May 8th. 60secondsontheclockstartsrightnow

We’re gonna be at Cannes this year, FYI.

  • IKEA chooses David, a WPP agency, for U.S. creative work and Alma, an Omnicom agency, for multicultural work.

  • Pepsi is going after Coca-Cola in Coca-Cola’s hometown of Atlanta with some activations around Pepsi’s Blind Taste Challenge. The competitors? Pepsi Zero and Coke Zero.

  • Doordash releases a Mother’s Day ad telling people to use DoorDad instead of bugging Mom. This was done by Gut LA.

  • New campaign from Nike promoting A’Ja Wilson’s new shoe. Fun Fact, Malia Obama directed one of the spots. Shoutout Wieden.