If you live in London, you're likely to hit snooze, eat breakfast at home, and indulge in a leisurely morning routine.

But if you call New York home, your morning probably looks drastically different: You get up early and eat breakfast on the go, according to IKEA's recent "Life at Home" report.

The study surveyed more than 8,000 people, ages 16 to 60, in eight major cities worldwide about their morning habits, and found several interesting differences between residents of Berlin, Moscow, London, New York, Mumbai, Paris, Stockholm, and Shanghai.

Here's how these eight cities stack up:

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Mark Jones writes …Here is a great video on the variety of uses of tablets for enhancing In-Store Sales and Multi-Channel Marketing (including Argos, House of ....

Agencies are being invited to pitch for McCain Foods’ advertising account as part of a £20m review by the frozen chip giant. The Scarborough-based company is reported to be inviting agencies to pitch through the London office of Roth Observatory International.

In a statement this morning to Campaign, McCain said it was holding a review “in light of the changing nature of its needs from an agency partner.”

Current incumbent BMB will also be repitching for the account it has held since 2006. The agency’s co-founder Trevor Beattie was instrumental in winning the account when he was chairman of TBWA, and then won the business again after he launched BMB.

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Director/video artist Justin Anderson is known for his sexy and often quite eerie fashion films, like "Fleurs du Mal" for Agent Provocateur, which featured scantily-clad S&M stalkers preying on a a lonely lady. His latest erotic move is "Jumper," an artsy, sensual film for British designer Jonathan Saunders, created out of U.K. production company/creative boutique Bold. The protagonists are a stylish upper-middle-class family of four, whose lives are thrown slightly off-kilter by a mysterious man who just stands there, completely nude, as they go about their dinner. It becames apparent throughout that the stranger has seductive sway over every one of them, instilling in each feelings of lust, guilt and more.

This seductive stalker goes full frontal on a family for designer Jonathan Saunders: http://t.co/kDtsT0InSO pic.twitter.com/ZhAMh6oSvA

— Ad Age (@adage) July 15, 2014

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