RICHARD WHITMAN

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• Planters Declares Mr. Peanut Dead in Mediapsssst on 01/22/2020
  

  He cracked up the Nut Mobile and then fell off a cliff. Come on Planters, who lets a 104-year-old drive anything, let alone a hard-to-handle nut truck?

• Kantar In Talks With UK Executive To Lead The Company in Mediapsssst on 01/21/2020
  

  If the talks conclude successfully, Adam Crozier would succeed Eric Salama as head of the research giant, now 60% owned by Bain Capital.

• The NFL's Social Justice PSA in Mediapsssst on 01/20/2020
  

  The spot, from 72andSunny, is one of a series of PSAs the league has created to foster awareness of social-justice issues.

• MTA Yucks It Up In New OOH Campaign in Mediapsssst on 01/17/2020
  

  Comedy Central and New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority unveiled a campaign to promote CC's upcoming show "Awkawfina Is Nora From Queens."

• Is Publicis Groupe About To Restructure (Again)? in Mediapsssst on 01/16/2020
  

  A published report says the firm is in a state of disarray and may soon announce another restructuring. That could see Publicis Media folded into another division at the company.

• WT Intelligence: Positivity is In, Nihilism Out In 2020 in Mediapsssst on 01/15/2020
  

  Wunderman Thompson Intelligence is out with its 2020 Trends report, which explores 100 trends to watch for in the coming year across various sectors.

• Alex Bogusky Reengineers His Role At CPB in Mediapsssst on 01/14/2020
  

  The creative wunderkind rejoined the company 18 months ago after an eight-year hiatus from the agency, which he helped put on the map.

• Omnicom's TPN Bolsters C-Suite in Mediapsssst on 01/13/2020
  

  Omnicom's commerce agency TPN has plans to expand its footprint globally and has promoted two executives to help achieve that goal.

• Wongdoody Expands In NYC in Mediapsssst on 01/12/2020
  

  The agency, acquired by Indian IT giant Infosys in 2018, has relocated to larger digs in the downtown section of the city to service a growing roster of clients.

• Mark Penn's Stagwell Group Creates Central Marketing Team in Mediapsssst on 01/09/2020
  

  Penn, who last year invested $100 million in MDC Partners and became its CEO, said that after four years of building the Stagwell portfolio of specialists, "now is the time to build the team that can meld all the pieces that we've gathered and bring them to market."

Comments by Richard All comments by Richard

• Good Grief by Bob Garfield (Garfield at Large on 12/05/2016)
  

  Wow! That is totally forgettable! And, yes, vocal fry (although it's somewhat mild in this case) is the most annoying thing in the world!

• Agency Full of 'Experience Mavens' and More Cowbell Gets New Management Team by Richard Whitman (Mediapsssst on 12/01/2016)
  

  I will have to read that, George! :)

• If You're Over 50, Please Take This Survey (And Everyone Else In Advertising Who Isn't) by Richard Whitman (Mediapsssst on 11/02/2016)
  

  Marcelo, I agree. Which is why I took the survey myself and was not presented with any sort of registration form nor did I receive any follow up.

• To No One's Surprise, Morale Sucks In the Ad Industry by Richard Whitman (Mediapsssst on 10/24/2016)
  

  I am real! Richard Whitman is real! This is not a joke! ;)

• Art Directors Club And The One Club Decide To Merge by Richard Whitman (Mediapsssst on 10/04/2016)
  

  Jack, sorry. I see my editor fixed it. I had originally intended to write almost 100-year-old ADC but I see that I submitted "almost 20-year-old ADC." My bad!

• Ad Agency That Can't Spell Pokemon Creates Pokemon Characters That Can Be Found At Ad Agencies (Face Palm) by Richard Whitman (Mediapsssst on 07/25/2016)
  

  Always great to see you here, George!

• Correction: Droga5 Web Site, Petition by Richard Whitman (Mediapsssst on 06/28/2016)
  

  I'll just stop by to drop this: "On 25 Jun 2016, at 10:01, Olivia Sweeting <olivia@persuasioncomms.com> wrote: Hi there,  Some satire: www.removeeverythingnotbritishfromtheworldwideweb.com. Made by Droga5 London. " I'm thinking most people would fully conclude that this work came from Droga5 London. Am I right?

• What Everyone Didn't Notice About that Racist Chinese Detergent Ad by Richard Whitman (Mediapsssst on 05/30/2016)
  

  I have eyes everywhere!

• CNBC Launches In-House Agency to Reach Audiences 'A Thousand Different Ways' by Richard Whitman (Mediapsssst on 04/14/2016)
  

  Thanks, Jerry:)

• Over Two Thirds of Digital Display Is Bought By Robots, Er, Programmatic Computers by Richard Whitman (Mediapsssst on 04/07/2016)
  

  Granted, creativity is best left in the hands of humans but consider the endless amount of ads for kinives you see next to stories about knife murders or the annoying ads you see for something you just browsed for, or worse, just bought on Amazon. Sure, programmatic can certainly ease the human burden and increase the efficiency of digital advertising but there are just too many examples of of "Yup, that shit was placed by a computer" for me to be satisfied that removing the hman element is a good thing.

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