Traveles Gets Unbrella Back, Digitas Gets Miller

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Borrell Associates reports local online video advertising will hit $5 billion or 35 percent of all local online advertising by 2012. Just in time for Lonelygirl15’s baby to take center stage as the first Pampers YouTube video series. Or ill it be LiveVideo by then?

– Travelers Insurance gets its red umbrella logo back from Citigroup after a ten year effort. Huh? Who knew it was missing?

– Miller has chosen Digitas to handle its interactive work after a review during which Digitas beat out Arc Worldwide for the account which was previously held by Agency.com.

– Remo, a new product from fledgling rations company erinMedia plans to rollout a sophisticated second by second television ratings service and has files many patents to insure it’s well positioned to unseat ratings king Nielsen.

– Film makers are taking their movies to the really small screen. Well, at least promotions for those movies.

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