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Specs Who From left, Jim Copacino, co-founder and ecd; Betti Fujikado, co-founder and director of account management; Tim O’Mara, director of engagement strategy; Brandy O’Briant, managing director; and Mike Hayward, creative director What Full-service ad agency Where Seattle Celebrating its hometown like few agencies do, Copacino + Fujikado boasts seven clients with Seattle in their name, from the Seattle Aquarium to the Seattle Times to the Seattle Mariners, for whom

Twitter users' reaction to Facebook agreeing to pay $16 billion for WhatsApp can be summed up in two words: What's that? Compared to the $1 billion CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Co. paid for Instagram—which to an American mindset, is more popular—the total sum (which entails $12 billion in shares) seems beyond the pale to many. But WhatsApp's user base of 450 million is triple that of Instagram and mostly overseas.

Weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments between broadcasters and Aereo, a district judge in Utah has imposed a preliminary injunction against the streaming TV service. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that the streaming video service was engaging in copyright infringement, in clear viloation of the 1976 Copyright Act.   At the conclusion of the Court’s 26-page judgment, Kimball said Fox Broadcasting Co.

Spark, which previously served as ConAgra Foods’ digital agency, has won all of the packaged food company’s U.S. media planning and buying business, sources said. The account had previously been handled by WPP Group’s MediaCom.  Reps at the media arm of Publicis Groupe’s Starcom MediaVest Group unit declined comment and those at the Omaha marketer could not immediately be reached.