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Hank Sherwood, Co-Founder of Nashville Agency GS&F, Dies at 85
Digital

Hank Sherwood, Co-Founder of Nashville Agency GS&F, Dies at 85

The advertising business has always been a place where partnerships define legacies, and for nearly half a century, the name Gish, Sherwood & Friends has stood as a reminder that some of those partnerships take root far from Madison Avenue. Hank Sherwood, who co-founded the Nashville agency known as GS&F in 1978, died on May 19 in

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The Flickering Screen Becomes the Fortress
Digital

The Flickering Screen Becomes the Fortress

For three decades, the article was the atomic unit of the internet — searchable, linkable, infinitely shareable. It was, in the parlance of the industry, content.

Primark Brings a Heist Film to Herald Square
Advertising

Primark Brings a Heist Film to Herald Square

The heist movie, as a genre, depends on the pleasure of watching people get away with something. Primark, the Irish discount retailer, is now betting

A World Turned Upside Down, One Stereotype at a Time
Television

A World Turned Upside Down, One Stereotype at a Time

The advertising industry has long served as a convenient shorthand in popular culture for a certain kind of male arrogance — the swagger, the martinis, the assumption that the corner office was a birthright.