- Jock Bickert, Founder Of The Lifestyle Selector, Dies
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Bickert was an early believer in telling consumers how their data w ...
- Former New York Journalist Pete Hamill Dies At 85
Publishers Daily, Melynda Fuller - Wednesday, August 5, 2020
His 50-plus year-long career spanned stints at New York's daily newspapers, includi ...
- Obit: CBS Communications Chief Gil Schwartz, Dead At 68
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 4, 2020
Gil Schwartz, former longtime chief communication officer of CBS and author, di ...
- 'Mad' Magazine's Famed Cartoonist Mort Drucker Dies At 91
Publishers Daily, Melynda Fuller - Thursday, April 9, 2020
Drucker began working at the satirical parody pub 'Mad' in 1956 a ...
- Agency Founder Alan Gross Dies At 79
MAD, Steve McClellan - Monday, March 30, 2020
Alan Gross, who founded Gross Townsend Frank Hoffman, now Grey Healthcare Grou ...
- Hair Club For Men Founder Sy Sperling Dies At 78
Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, February 20, 2020
Sperling was known for the line "I'm not only the Hair Cl ...
- MeritDirect Founder Ralph Drybrough Dies
Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 22, 2020
The retired B2B specialist was known as a tough competitor and ...
- Joseph M. Segel, Founder Of QVC And Franklin Mint, Dies At 88
Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Legendary direct marketer Joe Segel retired at age 43, then came ba ...
- 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 ...