:30 Not Dead, Cannes Goes to Coney, Stern Sued, J&J Robs McCann

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– All those predictions about the death of the upfront? Still wrong. It’s looking healthy and on it’s way to 9 billion, up three percent from last year. Death of the :30? not this year.

– PricewaterhouseCooper says global web ad spending will hit $80 billion by 2011.

– Even more Cannes idiocy: Wrath of Cannes

– Howard Stern may be sued by weight loss company JEC for disparaging comments he made about Stern regular, Cabbie who is using the product.

– Johnson & Johnson has pulled creative duties for all but one account, Acuvue, from IPG’s McCann Erikson, a loss of $90 million for the agency.

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