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Saul Colt, Consultant-in-Transition, SaulColt.com

Steve Hall, Editor, AdRants.com

Kathy Mandelstein, Senior Manager, PwC Digital

Topics

Is the Valley Now Where You Scale

Sources: The Venture Beat article

AT&T Anti-Texting At Four

Sources: Digiday reports

State of Product Placement

Sources: Adweek reports

The Ice-Bucket Challenge Value

Sources: Adweek looks at the tactic

#AdFail5

UK Food Truck Dirty Bird pops and new chicken-boner logo.

Levis turns away fans to a free concert for not wearing Levis.

Rebook offers a crossfit sponsorship to the biggest Rebook logo tattoo.

Lyft and Uber engage in ride-canceling tactics against each other.

Edelman PR capitalizes on Robin Williams' death.

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