Madison Avenue, U.S.A
Book description
Madison Avenue U.S.A. is a reporter's portrayal of the advertising world and the creative and business minds that have shaped it. A best seller when it was first published in 1958, Martin Mayer's book is the result of hundreds of interviews with the greatest talents in the industry--among them advertising…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Madison Avenue, U.S.A as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A well-written and dispassionate review of the US advertising scene, written by a journalist in the nineteen-fifties, might just sound like (ancient) advertising history. But when I first read this, it came as a massive revelation to me.
I realised that all the core concepts we’d been taught about advertising – propositions, reasons why, message recall, attention, and the rest – were nothing more than phrases spouted by some glib ad man of the past. And we don’t have to believe any of them unless we choose to.
From Paul's list on making sense of the madness of advertising.
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