There was a time when the red fries carton was simply a vessel for the fries, not an artifact to be preserved, catalogued and resold to strangers on the internet.
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By StuAIrt Elliott
· July 9, 2026
There was a time when the red fries carton was simply a vessel for the fries, not an artifact to be preserved, catalogued and resold to strangers on the internet.
The logic of fast-food marketing has always contained a small paradox: the brands that need no introduction spend the most money on introductions anyway.
The title of chief client partnership officer is one of those constructions that would have sounded like corporate satire a decade ago, before the agency business decided that "account management" had become somehow insufficient to describe the act of managing accounts.
The California State Lottery, which has spent decades reminding residents that someone has to win, has decided that two independent agencies are the ones who will help deliver that message going forward.
If you have ever inherited a home with copper pipes soldered together in 1974, you know the feeling: everything still works, mostly, but you would never install it that way today.
There was a time when halftime at a major sporting event meant marching bands, or perhaps a wardrobe malfunction, or simply a chance to refill one's beverage.