Madison Avenue loves bemoaning its love/hate relationship with digital's big "walled gardens," which hold the access to audiences as well as the means of targeting them, and it looks like ...

Wall Street analyst and former Interpublic economic forecaster Brian Wieser is returning to Madison Avenue, this time at WPP. Wieser, who for the past seven years has led ad industry ...

For all the ways marketers target people -- demos, etc. -- character has rarely had a role on Madison Avenue. Until now. ...

On Friday, "Research Intelligencer" published an analysis calculating the "hourly rate" Madison Avenue pays American consumers via ad-supported media. Today we're following up with a more granular analysis analyzing the ...

A nationally representative poll finds only four in ten read only printed books anymore -- a timely insight for us to tease a forthcoming review of a book we currently ...

Many in the ad world think of "Madison Avenue" -- as defined by the big agency holding companies -- as representing a critical mass of the industry, but a back-of-the-envelope ...

Nefarious interests ranging from criminal fraudsters, purveyors of malware and even state-sponsored disinformation campaigns have figured out how to weaponize the tools of automated media-buying - and it is an ...

The good news is that the ad industry is making strides in gender diversity. The bad news is that it has spawned so many concurrent efforts that the movement may ...

Officials from the Obama Administration met with executives from Madison Avenue and Silicon Valley on Wednesday to discuss efforts that might be deployed to counter propaganda efforts being implemented by ...

Sarah DaVanzo is Chief Cultural Strategy Officer at Omnicom agency Sparks & Honey. No, I'm not going to bash the fact that the agency has invented yet another silly title ...

The agency, which opened its doors during the War Between The States, plans a year-long series of events to highlight the best of its past and promise of its fut ...

Pioneering non-fiction cartoonist Stan Mack (The Village Voice's "Stan Mack's Real-Life Funnies," Adweek's "Stan Mack's Outtakes") will once again chronicle the inner workings of Madison Avenue via a new weekly ...

Despite the hyper-fragmentation of the media marketplace, five suppliers still represent a critical mass of Madison Avenue's media-buying power. Tellingly, one of the fastest-growing of the ad industry's new "Big ...

In a move to create what could well be called a UPC, or universal product code for all advertising and media content, two media and entertainment and trade groups are ...

Fresh on the heels of high-profile public "exits" by some of Madison Avenue's biggest suppliers, most notably Nielsen, another one of the ad industry's near monopolies is planning an IPO. ...

Tor Myhren, creator of the "E*Trade Baby," has been named worldwide chief creative officer of WPP ad shop Grey. Myhren will continue as president and chief creative officer of Grey ...

Since at least 2007, before Doubleclick (bought by Google), Right Media (bought by Yahoo) and AdECN (bought by Microsoft), and arguably for several years before, the advertising industry has witnessed ...

Let's face it, you can only take so much Advertising Week. So last Wednesday afternoon, instead of heading to yet another panel or presentation, I hopped the A Train from ...

The Association of National Advertisers is calling on its members to call on Congress in an effort to head off one of the greatest threats to the federal tax deductibility ...

We've all seen this movie before: Small agency has seasonal lag in revenues and guts staff. Morale nosedives. The agency balance sheet is not just affected by revenue loss, but ...

Fortner is tasked with heading the agency's effort to fuse creativity, media and technology to further drive business results for clients. ...

In a development bound to send ripples across both Madison Avenue and the television industry, a new "audience-buying" platform has quietly rolled out an automated system enabling agencies and their ...

On Madison Avenue, Nielsen is known for making media audience estimates and other forms of consumer research. On Wall Street, it is known for making money -- for its investors. ...

If the rationale given by John Wren and Maurice Levy for the merger of Omnicom and Publicis into the ad industry's new dominant player is genuine, then it will ignite ...

Looks like Publicis Groupe's Starcom MediaVest Group is on the verge of settling a discrimination law suit filed against it by former agency planner Angela Cahill. Cahill, who had been ...

What is the real deal here? You know it's not in the press release or the interviews the executives are doing. The truth won't even be in meetings between the ...