Lars Bastholm is joining Ogilvy North America as chief digital creative officer with responsibility for Ogilvy's digital creative work across North America. Bastholm, who was co-chief creative officer at AKQA prior to joining Ogilvy, served as chief jurist for the 2009 Cannes Cyber Lions.

FedEx SmartPost has expanded its service into Canada for US shippers by using the residential delivery capabilities of the Canada Post Corporation.

Candie's, an accessories brand sold exclusively at Kohl's department stores, is launching a spring marketing campaign featuring Britney Spears that includes print, online, direct mail, e-mail blasts, radio and outdoor billboards. Iconix Brand Group Inc., which markets the Candie's brand, also will partner with US Weekly to help launch the campaign, with almost 4 million full-size, limited edition, pull-out posters appearing exclusively in the magazine's April 15 issue.

Yahoo Mobile is growing its business by expanding its services into new countries and with new product offerings. After announcing the expansion at the Mobile World Congress in February, Yahoo Mobile's new personalized mobile homep­age is now available in eight countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas including the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, with additional localized versions expected to launch over the next several months.

Real estate Web site Zillow.com is teaming up with 180 newspapers nationwide to launch co-branded real estate Web sites. The partnership expands the scope of the Zillow Newspaper Consortium, which was formed in November 2007 with 11 major newspaper publishers. Under that earlier agreement, newspaper sales teams sell featured listings and advertising inventory on Zillow.com to local real estate advertisers.

Real time search engine OneRiot has launched a new Twitter search engine. Different from search.twitter.com, which shows real-time user Tweets including a search query, twitter.oneriot.com's results will include the actual Web content that users on Twitter are talking about and linking to.

Financial services company KeyBank has named Sapient Interactive as its interactive agency of record. Sapient Interactive will create, manage and deliver digital marketing for KeyBank's online entities.

Act One Mailing List Services Inc. has introduced the Green Living - Environmental Activists list to the market. This list is composed of consumers of eco-friendly products and organic foods.

Despite a slight uptick in retail sales for January and February, 2009 promises more hard times for many retailers.

Some searchers place more trust in the organic results from search engine optimization; while for others, paid search is more effective and measurable. Our experts assess both.

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