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Welcome to our weekly wrap-up, which highlights the most exciting stories from the advertising and marketing industry over the past week. Here are the top stories for the week ending August 28, 2026, as chosen by our readers:
- LOFT Community Services appoints King Ursa as Agency Partner
- Branded Cities Shakes Up Canada Sales Team
- The YouTube View Was Never a High-Intent Signal Anyway, Says Dmitri Fando [Hot Take]
- Why Jordan Benedet thinks YouTube just turned the view into a vanity metric [Hot Take]
- IKEA Media Review 2026: Carat Canada Agency Put on Notice
- Media Buyers Moves For August 19, 2026 (APEX Exchange Canada, Touche!/Hearts & Science, Spark Foundry Canada)
- YouTube announces changes to what counts as a view, follows TikTok and Instagram
- Corus Entertainment Announces Second Wave of Summer Layoffs, Affecting AM 640
- Media Buyers Moves For August 12, 2026 (Spark Foundry Canada, WPP Media, Touché!)
- Jeremy Miller exits Chief Marketing Officer role at dentsu

