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Reckitt Builds an Academy to Make Good Marketing Less Accidental
Television

Reckitt Builds an Academy to Make Good Marketing Less Accidental

The consumer goods industry has long operated on the assumption that if you hire enough clever people and give them enough money, good advertising will eventually result. Reckitt, the British conglomerate behind Lysol, Finish and Dettol, appears to have decided that hope is not a strategy. The company has built what it calls the Reckitt Marketing Academy, a global training

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The Droga5 Family Tree Keeps Branching Out
Agencies

The Droga5 Family Tree Keeps Branching Out

In the advertising business, certain agencies have a way of scattering their alumni across the industry like seeds from a particularly fertile dandelion. Chiat/Day

TikTok Opens Its Doors to the Machines
Television

TikTok Opens Its Doors to the Machines

The advertising industry has spent the better part of two years talking about artificial intelligence as if it were a weather system — something large and

Air Finds a Boy Band to Believe In
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Air Finds a Boy Band to Believe In

The history of pop music management is littered with cautionary tales about young talent and the handlers who promise to protect them. The fictional boy