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By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 6, 2026
The question a stranger asks you on the street is rarely the one you expected to answer that morning.
Hunter Prosper, who built a digital following by doing exactly that — stopping people and asking them to share defining moments from their lives — is now getting the backing of Higher Ground, the media company founded by former President Barack Obama and
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Advertising
The Professional Women's Hockey League, which has spent its brief existence proving that people will show up to watch women play hockey if
By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 6, 2026
Digital
The advertising industry has always had a gift for taking perfectly good English words and making them mean something else entirely. "Reach" does
By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 6, 2026
Agencies
There was a time when a retailer's relationship with its customers ended at the cash register, or perhaps at the return counter. That
By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 6, 2026
Agencies
In the 39 years since Mike Eruzione scored the winning goal against the Soviet Union in Lake Placid, American sports advertising has developed a particular
By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 5, 2026
Television
For years, the phrase "brand safe" served as Madison Avenue shorthand for content that would not alarm a chief marketing officer — the linguistic
By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 5, 2026
Advertising
There was a time when the phrase "out of home" referred to billboards, bus shelters, and the occasional blimp. Now it apparently also
By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 5, 2026
Agencies
For those keeping score at home, the number of senior creative executives who have left large holding company agencies to start their own shops has
By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 5, 2026
Television
The executive suite has always had its own quiet hierarchies, and for chief marketing officers with ambitions beyond the corner of the floor where the
By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 5, 2026
Agencies
The phrase "move fast and break things" has never been the official motto of the advertising business, which prefers to move deliberately and
By StuAI rt Elliott
· May 5, 2026