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From Junior Designer to CCO: Sinan Dagli’s 17 Years at BSSP
Sinan Dagli joined BSSP as a junior designer in 2009. Now its CCO, he talks about the rule that kept him, the walls he never hit and LA.
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Scam Alert: A Fake Media Brief Is Making the Rounds
An independent agency caught an imposter posing as a GoPro marketing manager, with a lookalike website and 1 file that…
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StratFest Sees Strategy at the Center of the Marketing Engine
The long-running event finds strategy growing in importance as AI changes the game
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Folklore’s Founder Hired His Own CEO. Twice.
Mike Matheny knows where his strengths stop. Obele Brown-West read all 300 pages to learn where Folklore's begin
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Why the BastionBUNTIN Merger Took 2 Years to Get to Yes
Jeffrey Buntin Jr. and Jeff Browe on the values checks, money questions and 10 integration meetings that came before the…
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Unreasonable Conference Picks Experts’ Brains on Consumer Behavior
The conference, sponsored by Y&L, helps educate marketers on the best ways to reach consumers.
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Advertising’s Most Expensive Problem Happens Well Before We Make Anything
We've built a creative process that separates the thinking from the making. And it's costing us.
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Why Brands Are Dropping the Billable Hour and Stretching Payment Terms
Output-based pay is winning out, but agencies are waiting roughly 75 days to get paid, and the WFA says smaller…
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“We Can Tell Each Other When It’s Terrible.” Inside 20-Plus Years of StayGold and Logitech
Carolyn Walker and Irma Sandoval break down what each side kept doing, from the first webcam brief to a portfolio…
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Introducing BrandAPI: A New Way to Think About Find-ability in the Agentic Age
The BrandAPI is a concept, not a thing you build.
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Your :15 Is Playing to an Empty Couch
AI-generated search answers have ended the paid placement journey before the first impression and killed publisher revenue. It's time to…
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The Originality Tax: Why Instagram’s New Update Is A Bill For Imitators
The new algorithm is a foreclosure on the imitation-first model.
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Walt Geer Jumps From VML Into What’s Next
After six years he is taking his time on what comes next — and making the case for feeling, nuance…
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The 15% Tax: Why A&G Declared Independence From the Hour
Andrew Graff argues that hourly billing quietly drains agency energy — and that indies, not holding companies, have the leverage…
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The 4As CEO Explains How the Organization is Rebuilding Itself in Public
A year into the job, Justin Thomas-Copeland is turning a century-old trade body into a service platform with agentic tools,…
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Klick Health Acquires Oxford PharmaGenesis in Life Sciences Power Move
The deal pushes Klick to 12 offices and over 500 advanced degree holders, deepening oncology, rare disease and market access…
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2 Indies, 1 island: Ardmore Backs Bonfire
The Belfast group takes a stake in a Dublin original and opens the door to all-island scale
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Compliance is real. Mediocrity is optional.
Inside Rx&O, the new healthcare vertical betting that pharma's red tape was never the reason the work got boring
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StayGold: The Agency That Rebranded With a Song
An agency named Response spent years being mistaken for something it wasn't — so it changed its name, then wrote…