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Advertising

Wieden+Kennedy Opens a Door to Hollywood, Perhaps Looking for a Different Kind of Client

The advertising industry has spent decades trying to convince itself that what it does is essentially the same as making movies, only shorter and with more legal disclaimers.

The advertising industry has spent decades trying to convince itself that what it does is essentially the same as making movies, only shorter and with more legal disclaimers.

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Advertising

Accenture Song Names New Leader, With a Mandate to Build Her Own Path

The consulting industry has never been known for its reverence toward the advertising business, which may explain why the advertising business has spent the better part of a decade nervously watching consulting firms buy their way onto Madison Avenue.

A Math Problem From Madison Avenue
Advertising

A Math Problem From Madison Avenue

The proposition that reaching more consumers might matter more than crafting better advertisements sounds, at first hearing, like something an account executive might say to explain away a disappointing creative presentation.

Ford Racing Revs Its Engine With a Campaign Built on Origin Stories
Digital

Ford Racing Revs Its Engine With a Campaign Built on Origin Stories

It has been 125 years since Henry Ford, a young engineer with more ambition than capital, won an improbable race in Grosse Pointe, Mich., and used the prize money to start what would become one of the world's largest automakers.

A Biographer Gets Close, Perhaps Too Close, to His Subject
Television

A Biographer Gets Close, Perhaps Too Close, to His Subject

The peculiar hazards of authorized biography have been well documented over the years, from the danger of being captured by one's subject to the temptation to trade access for affection.

The Pitch Process Gets a Haircut
Digital

The Pitch Process Gets a Haircut

For years, the selection of an advertising holding company by a major marketer has resembled nothing so much as a royal wedding: elaborate, exhausting and conducted under the assumption that everyone involved had nothing better to do for 12 months.