The quality of Super Bowl ads often rivals the game itself, and yet every year brands will make missteps. Viewers will cringe, be bored, stop watching. Cartoonist Tom Fishburne sketches out the common stumbling blocks that leave brands writhing in the advertising pit of despair. READ»
So with the season finale approaching this Sunday, and the startup’s very existence hanging in the balance, let us grade the leadership skills of the five guys who steered the company to this point: senior partners Roger Sterling, ...READ»
Two years ago, Burt Cooper advised Don Draper that "philanthropy is the gateway to power." Last night, Mad Men struck again! Ad man Ken Cosgrove made the case for pro bono service. In the episode called "Blowing Smoke," the firm of ...READ»
As a rule I'm a 'never-before-noon' man. But one morning recently there it was, on top of the spread of magazines laid out for me on my desk. Cover story of The Atlantic Monthly, the magazine founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and some cronies over a few drinks at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in 1857. Four words. "The End Of Men." READ»
In the wake of Mad Men's Season Two finale, legendary profanity-spewing ad man George Lois checks in with his own take on the golden age of Madison Avenue. (Hint: he thinks it ain't the same these days.)READ»
