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Seth Matlins Finds a Microphone and a Mission
Television

Seth Matlins Finds a Microphone and a Mission

The career arc of a marketing executive often resembles a kind of institutional pinball — bouncing from brand to agency to holding company to consultancy, with occasional detours into media properties that may or may not exist by the time you read this sentence. Seth Matlins, who has held senior positions at Live Nation, Forbes, and Rock the Vote over the

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A Roundup of Moves, but No Moves to Report
Agencies

A Roundup of Moves, but No Moves to Report

The game of musical chairs on Madison Avenue — that perpetual shuffling of executives from one holding company outpost to another, from marketer to agency and

Samsung Joins the Twelve-Figure Club
Advertising

Samsung Joins the Twelve-Figure Club

The ranks of companies whose stock market value exceeds one trillion dollars is not particularly long, but it just got one name longer. Samsung, the

WPP's New Chief Gets a Raise Before She Starts
Agencies

WPP's New Chief Gets a Raise Before She Starts

There is a peculiar rhythm to executive compensation in the advertising industry. A company announces a leadership change, and within weeks the new leader'

The Upfront Lexicon, Revised for Another Year
Television

The Upfront Lexicon, Revised for Another Year

The advertising industry has long maintained its own dialect, a patois that evolves with each selling season and tends to sound, to outsiders, like a

Tim Cook Still Remembers
Television

Tim Cook Still Remembers

It has been nearly a decade since Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy, a victim of what turned out to be the opening salvo in what