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A new billboard campaign for The CW series Vampire Diaries is causing some concern for its reference to an older descriptor for sexually transmitted diseases, venereal disease.

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As predicted, the industry is fulfilling the prophecy 2011 will become known as the year social media went mainstream. Following the recent acquisition of Powered Inc. by Dachis Group, Havas Worldwide has taken a majority stake in Colleen DeCourcy’s startup, Socialistic.