The announcement that an agency has given its chief creative officer more responsibility is one of those pieces of news that arrives with the regularity of the tides, and with approximately as much surprise.
The advertising holding companies have long treated their agency rosters the way some people treat closet space: periodically convinced that consolidation will solve everything, only to discover a few years later that they need more room.
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