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Advertising

Gap Revisits a Decade It Never Quite Left

There is a particular kind of nostalgia that involves remembering not just a time, but remembering how good you were at that time.

There is a particular kind of nostalgia that involves remembering not just a time, but remembering how good you were at that time.

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In-House Agencies Graduate From the Bargain Bin
Advertising

In-House Agencies Graduate From the Bargain Bin

There was a time, not so long ago, when bringing advertising work inside the corporate walls was presented primarily as an accounting decision — a way to pay fewer agency fees and maintain somewhat more control over one's own brand assets.

Media Companies Play the Match Game, With the Deck Reshuffled
Digital

Media Companies Play the Match Game, With the Deck Reshuffled

The last time entertainment conglomerates were this eager to pair off, it was the late 2010s, and the industry produced couplings that ranged from the logical (Disney acquiring 21st Century Fox) to the eventually regretted (AT&T acquiring Time Warner, or was it WarnerMedia by then?).

The World Cup Comes to America, and Madison Avenue Follows
Advertising

The World Cup Comes to America, and Madison Avenue Follows

The last time the United States hosted a World Cup, in 1994, the American advertising industry treated soccer with the polite bewilderment of a dinner guest confronted with an unfamiliar fork.

TJ Maxx Finds Its Red Carpet at the ESPYs
Advertising

TJ Maxx Finds Its Red Carpet at the ESPYs

The awards show that celebrates athletic excellence has found an unlikely retail partner in a company better known for discounted designer handbags than slam dunks.

Meet the People Finds Its Place in Dallas
Advertising

Meet the People Finds Its Place in Dallas

The geography of independent advertising networks has always been a story of strategic cartography, with executives peering at maps and asking themselves where, exactly, they need to be.

Agencies

Madison Avenue Learns to Swim, or at Least Wade

The advertising industry has spent decades assuring itself that it is prepared for the next technological upheaval, and then being surprised when the upheaval arrives anyway.