- Mark Hurd, Master Salesman Who Led 3 Companies, Dies At 62
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, October 21, 2019
Hurd joined Oracle as president in 2010 and was named co-CEO ...
- Obit: Pioneering Cable TV PR Exec Arthur Sando, Dead At 71
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Friday, September 6, 2019
Arthur Sando, a pioneering public relations executive who may best be kno ...
- Omnicom Veteran Janet Riccio Dies At 61
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, August 5, 2019
A passionate champion for women both at work and outside the offic ...
- Former IPG CEO Philip Geier Dies At 84
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Geier started his career with McCann-Ericson in 1958. He was named vi ...
- The Via Agency's Greg Smith Dies At 52
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Smith was CCO at the agency for 20 years and is credit ...
- Obit: Carat Founder Gilbert Gross, Dead At 87
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, April 4, 2019
Gilbert Gross, who founded independent media services agency Carat, died March 2 ...
- Obit: 'Adweek' Cofounder Pen Tudor, Dead At 89
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, March 13, 2019
W. Pendleton Tudor, a cofounder of Adweek, died Tuesday. He was 8 ...
- Movie Marketing Executive Michael Gray Dies At 87
MediaDailyNews, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Veteran marketing executive Michael Gray created electronic press kits for films su ...
- 'NYT' Overlooked Project Highlights Prominent African-Americans
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Friday, February 1, 2019
The New York Times has expanded its "Overlooked" obituary column ahead ...
- Adland Veteran, Agency Owner Barbara Gardner Proctor Dies at 86
Around the Net In MediaPost's Agency News, Steve McClellan - Friday, January 18, 2019
A self-made woman who was born poor in rural North Carolina, Gardn ...
- Adman Jerry Gibbons Dead At 82
MAD, Steve McClellan - Thursday, January 17, 2019
Gibbons ran big agencies on the West Coast and more recently head ...
- Obit: VAB's Perkins-Roberts, Dead At 54
Television News Daily, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Long-time TV advertising sales executive Cynthia Perkins-Roberts died Jan. 1. She w ...
- Obit: Agency Media Chief, Auditing Pioneer Michael Lotito, Dead At 57
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, October 4, 2018
Michael Lotito, a long-time Madison Avenue media chief who founded pioneering med ...
- Obit: MRI Co-Founder Alain Tessier, Dead At 85
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Alain Tessier, who along with the late Timothy Joyce, co-founded essential med ...
- Digital Ad Vet Joe Gallagher Dies At 54
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, August 2, 2018
Joseph G. Gallagher, a senior executive at Digital Remedy and a foundi ...
- Women Denied 'The New York Times' Obits Remembered In 'Overlooked' TV Series
Publishing Insider, Melynda Fuller - Thursday, May 24, 2018
Working in partnership with Anonymous Content, Paramount Television and 3Dot Productions, t ...
- 'NYT' Overlooked Campaign Remembers Significant Women Ignored By Obits
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Thursday, March 8, 2018
Since 1851, The New York Times has published thousands of obituaries, t ...
- Obit: Conde Nast's Si Newhouse, Dead At 89
Publishers Daily, Joe Mandese - Sunday, October 1, 2017
Samuel Irving "Si" Newhouse, founder of Conde Nast Publications, one of t ...
- Obit: Pioneering Magazine Publisher Hugh Hefner, Dead At 91
Publishers Daily, Joe Mandese - Thursday, September 28, 2017
At a time when iconic magazine editors are stepping down in drove ...
- Former AAF President Howard Bell Has Died At 91
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Monday, August 28, 2017
Bell served as the founding president of what is considered the mode ...
- Obit: Roger Ailes, Most Powerful Name In News, Dead At 77
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, May 18, 2017
Roger Ailes, a communications strategist who became one of the most powerf ...
- Obit: Ad Industry Forecaster Bob Coen, Dead At 93
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Friday, January 6, 2017
Robert J. Coen, a long-time Interpublic executive who was Madison Avenue's ...
- Three Chicago Agency Friends Die In Car Crash
Around the Net In MediaPost's Agency News, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, October 25, 2016
The three women got know each other as employees at Chicago-based Ener ...
- Former Time Inc. CEO Reginald K. Brack Jr. Dies at 79
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Brack spent four decades at Time Inc. He was the first pers ...
- Adland Loses One Of Its Brightest Chroniclers: Noreen O'Leary Dies
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, October 3, 2016
The Pittsburgh native spent 31 years covering the advertising and agency be ...
- Arnold Palmer, Sports Marketing Champ, Dies At 87
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, September 26, 2016
Arnold Palmer, who won more than 90 major golf championships worldwide ...
- Jack Taylor, Founder Of Enterprise, 94
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Jack C. Taylor, a World War II fighter pilot who later found ...
- Roger Enrico, Who Took Pepsi To The Blink Of Victory, 71
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, June 3, 2016
The former Pepsi marketing chief, chairman and CEO who famously - a ...
- The Martin Agency Alum Harry Jacobs Has Died
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Harry Jacobs, who was the chief creative officer for The Martin Agen ...
- Coke "Hilltop" Ad Creator Bill Backer Dies
Around the Net In MediaPost's Agency News, Steve McClellan - Monday, May 16, 2016
Bill Backer, credited with creating the Coke “Hilltop” ad back in t ...