by Richard Whitman on Dec 6, 5:36 PM
Ad agency employment has been on a steady rise since the post dot-com debacle early this century. According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, ad agency employment is at its highest level since May 2001 with 199,100 people employed in advertising agencies. Ad agency employment has
grown by 38,500 jobs since a low point of 160,000 in January of 2010, the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom. During the dot-com boom, ad agency employment hit a high of 207,400 in August of 2000. And, yes, it was as crazy as you can imagine. Over the …