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Holding Companies Grow Larger, but Their Payrolls Grow Smaller
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Holding Companies Grow Larger, but Their Payrolls Grow Smaller

The advertising industry has long prided itself on being a people business, which makes the latest census from Ad Age something of a contradiction in terms.

The advertising industry has long prided itself on being a people business, which makes the latest census from Ad Age something of a contradiction in terms.

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A Judge From 'Drag Race' Has a Message, and It's Not About Your Outfit
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A Judge From 'Drag Race' Has a Message, and It's Not About Your Outfit

The pharmaceutical industry has long understood that awareness campaigns work best when they appear to be selling nothing at all — or, more precisely, when they are selling the category while leaving the brand name to be discovered later, perhaps in a doctor's office.

Residence Adds Influencer Agency GateMaker to Its Collection
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Residence Adds Influencer Agency GateMaker to Its Collection

The business of knowing the right people has always been valuable on Madison Avenue, though the definition of "the right people" has shifted somewhat since the days when that meant knowing which creative director to call at Doyle Dane Bernbach.

Britain Recruits Teachers by Promising Escape From the Mundane
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Britain Recruits Teachers by Promising Escape From the Mundane

The British government, faced with a generation that has come to view the teaching profession as something one settles for rather than reaches toward, has decided to reframe the pitch entirely: teaching, the new campaign suggests, is where you go to feel alive.

Snapchat Prepares to Play Host to the World Cup, in More Ways Than One
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Snapchat Prepares to Play Host to the World Cup, in More Ways Than One

The World Cup, which begins next month in stadiums across the United States, will also be contested on a smaller pitch: the screens of mobile phones, where social media platforms are competing for the attention of fans who increasingly experience major sporting events through the filter of their fee

The Forecaster's Forecast
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The Forecaster's Forecast

There is a particular kind of authority that comes from having built something enormous, lost it under murky circumstances, and then immediately started building something else.