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  1. Jobs picture improving. Media jobs up in Oct for 2nd month. Total US employment in Nov had smallest loss since 1/08. See AdAge.com/adjobs
  2. Ad industry showed first job gains in 9/09 since 10/08; media had first gains since 2/08. Signs of recovery? See AdAge.com/adjobs
  3. I just posted latest industry jobs data at adage.com/adjobs Advertising/marketing services cut 11,000 jobs in Aug., worst since Jan.
  4. Reason for optimism? June media job cuts (4,900) lowest since October. Ad agency jobs stabilizing: http://adage.com/adjobs
  5. Bad: Ad industry lost 10,000 jobs in May. Good: Smallest monthly job loss since November. Full data: http://adage.com/adjobs
  6. IPG, Omnicom and WPP early this decade attempted to build another media-mgmt system, MediaPort. The Big 3 shuttered the venture in 2002.
  7. IPG in '00 sold AdWare to Mediaplex. Mediaplex bought by ValueClick in '01.
  8. MSFT/IPG plan for media-mgmt system interesting...not new. IPG from '81-'00 owned AdWare, which in '90s had similiar alliance with IBM.
  9. RT @adagedatacenter End of recession? Not quite. Ad industry lost 15,500 jobs in April. See DataCenter's updated figures: AdAge.com/adjobs
  10. August moment: Chrysler, bought by Cerberus in 8/07, now bankrupt. Source Interlink bought Primedia's car mags 8/07; Source Int now Ch 11.
  11. Keeping track: 7 of Ad Age 100 Leading Media Cos are in Ch 11: SourceInterlink, SunTimes, TribCo, MinnStarTrib,JournalReg, PhilNewsp,Charter
  12. Sard Verbinnen is flacking for hedge funds that pushed Chrysler to Ch 11. Connect dots: Sard earlier repped Chrysler raider Kirk Kerkorian
  13. Best-performing agency stock year to date? IPG; +5% today. Mkt cap ($2.1B) twice that of key (and potentially bankrupt) client GM ($1.15B).
  14. @jonahbloom It's 6th in Ad Age 100 Leading Media Cos. to go Ch. 11. Others: Trib Co; Minn Star-Trib; Journal Register, Phil. Newsp; Charter.