- Bob Garfield
He is now writing his third book, Listenomics, on his Adage.com blog in full public view. His first book, Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream, was published by Scribner in 1997, favorably reviewed and quickly forgotten. His 2003 manifesto on advertising, And Now a Few Words From Me, is published in six languages (although, admittedly, one is Bulgarian).
- Al Ries
Al Ries is a marketing professional and author. He is also the co-founder and chairman of the Atlanta-based consulting firm Ries & Ries with his partner and daughter, Laura Ries. Along with Jack Trout, Ries coined the term "positioning", as related to the field of marketing, and authored "Positioning: The Battle For Your Mind", an industry standard on the subject.
- Hal Riney
Hal Riney (born 1932) is an American advertising executive and founder of Publicis & Hal Riney. Riney was named number 30 on the "Advertising Age" 100 people of the 20th century. He was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 2001. Riney grew up in Longview, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1954. After serving two years in the United States Army doing public relations in Italy, he joined BBDO San Francisco, …
- Dana Blankenhorn
Dana Blankenhorn is a business journalist, blogger, and consultant. He began his professional journalism career in 1978 and began covering the online world in the mid-80s. Mr. Blankenhorn has written for the "Chicago Tribune", "Advertising Age", "ZDNet", and other publications. He also publishes a weekly newsletter about Ecommerce trends at a-clue.com. Mr. Blankenhorn currently resides in Atlanta, GA.
- William Bernbach
William (Bill) Bernbach (August 13, 1911, New York City - October 2, 1982, New York City) was a legendary figure in the history of American advertising. He was one of the three founders of Doyle Dane Bernbach and directed ad campaigns such as "Think Small" for Volkswagen Beetle (recognized by Advertising Age as the top advertising campaign of the 20th Century). Bernbach was noted for his devotion to creativity and offbeat themes, …
- Lee Clow
Lee Clow is currently the Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of TBWAWorldwide. "Advertising Age" referred to him as "advertising's art director guru." Clow is best known for creating Apple Computer's "1984" commercial which launched the Apple Macintosh and the "Think Different" slogan.. He's also known for his work on the Energizer Bunny, Taco Bell chihuahua, and California Coolers campaigns.
- Jerry della Femina
Jerry Della Femina (born 1936) is an American advertising executive. Born in Brooklyn, Della Femina graduated from Lafayette High School and attended Brooklyn College. After starting in advertising in 1961, he started his own agency, Della Femina Travisano & Partners, in 1967. A self-styled "publicity slut," Della Femina made headlines for colorful comments throughout his career. His 1971 book "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor" was a best-seller.
- Dan Wieden
Dan Wieden is an American advertising executive who co-founded Wieden+Kennedy. He and David Kennedy were listed as number 22 on the "Advertising Age" 100 ad people of the 20th century. He was named one of America's 25 most intriguing entrepreneurs by "Inc." Wieden has been Oregon’s Professional of the Year, Oregon’s Entrepreneur of the Year, one of the world’s 50 CyberElite by "Time" magazine, …
- J. G. Sandom
J. G. Sandom, often referred to as the "Father of Interactive (Internet) Advertising," founded the world’s first interactive advertising agency, Einstein and Sandom Interactive (EASI), in 1984.. It grew to become the largest digital marketing services firm when it was purchased by DMB&B (MacManus Group) in 1994. Sandom continued to manage EASI on behalf of DMB&B through 1996.
- Jay Chiat
Jacob Morton "Jay" Chiat (October 25, 1931 - April 23, 2002) was an American advertising designer. Chiat was born in the Bronx in New York City and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers College, graduating in 1953 and was inducted in its Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2000. He served in the United States Air Force. In 1962, Chiat teamed up with Guy Day to form the Chiat/Day advertising agency in Los Angeles (now TBWAChiatDay).
- David Remnick
David Remnick (born October 29, 1958 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. As a reporter for the "Washington Post", he also served as the paper's Moscow correspondent. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire". He has been editor of "The New Yorker" magazine since 1998. He has edited several collections of writings from "The New Yorker" and in 1999, …
- David Kennedy
David Kennedy (born 1940) is an American advertising executive who co-founded Wieden+Kennedy. He and Dan Wieden were listed as number 22 on the "Advertising Age" 100 ad people of the 20th century. Kennedy graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder with a fine art degree. During the 1960s and 70s he worked for Leo Burnett Worldwide and Young & Rubicam in Chicago. He met Wieden at McCann-Erickson while working on the Nike, Inc. account in 1980.
- Robert Goldsborough
Robert Goldsborough is an American author of mystery novels. He was born in 1937 and grew up in the Chicago area. Although he worked for 45 years for the Chicago Tribune and Advertising Age, he first came to prominence in the 1980's with the publication, with the approval of the estate of Rex Stout, of his Nero Wolfe mystery Murder In E Minor which had been written privately for his mother back in 1978, shortly after the death of Stout, creator of the Wolfe stories.
- Shirley Polykoff
Shirley Polykoff was an American advertising executive whose "Does She... Or Doesn't She?" tagline for Clairol skyrocketed sales and earned her a place in the Advertising Hall of Fame. Born in Brooklyn, she started her career in magazine and retail ad sales before taking a position at Foote, Cone & Belding. In 1955 she took over the Clairol account, and her line helped take the hair color category from $25 million to $200 million annually, …
- Helen Lansdowne Resor
Helen Bayleff Lansdowne Resor (February 20 1886-January 2 1964) was an American advertising executive with J. Walter Thompson Co.. A noted copywriter, she was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 1967. She was named #14 on the list of 100 Advertising people of the 20th Century by "Advertising Age". She married her husband Stanley B. Resor in 1917. He was on the business side at J. Walter Thompson and was also inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Bernice Bowles "Fitz" Fitz-Gibbon was an American advertising executive and a pioneer in retail advertising, working at Marshall Field's, Macy's, Gimbels and Wanamaker. She was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 1982. She was named #62 on the 100 people of the 20th century by "Advertising Age". She was also honored by Retail Advertising Confederation and the Copywriters Club of New York. Fitz-Gibbon was born in Waunakee, Wisconsin and grew up on a farm.
- David Falk
David Falk (born 1950) is an American sports agent, most often representing NBA players. He is best known for representing sports icon Michael Jordan for the entirety of Jordan's career. Besides Jordan, Falk has represented more than 70 other NBA players, and is generally considered to be the most influential player agent the NBA has seen. During the peak years of Falk's career in the 1990s, …
- Scott Kauffman
Scott Kauffman (born 1956) is an American business manager. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Ellwood and Shirley Kauffman, and grew up with his sister Jane and brothers Geoffrey and Matthew. In 1973 he appeared briefly in Steven E. de Souza's first film, Arnold's Wrecking Co.. Kauffman has worked for a variety of media companies; the first was Time Warner in the founding of Entertainment Weekly. His next job was as a vice-president of CompuServe, …
- Prasoon Pandey
Prasoon Pandey, born 1961 is a renowned Indian director of advertising films. Advertising Age listed him among the Top 100 advertising film directors of the world. Gunn Report ranked him at No. 24 in a list of the best and most awarded ad film directors in 2001. His 'one black coffee' ad for Ericcson was the first Indian commercial to win at Cannes. Prasoon Pandey has been on the jury of many international advertising festivals including the Cannes in 2006.
- Cynthia Leive
Cynthia (Cindi) Leive is the Editor in Chief of "Glamour" magazine. Under Leive, "Glamour" has received a record number of editorial awards. Furthermore, "Glamour's" circulation has risen to its highest levels ever, with a rate base of 2.25 million. "Crain’s" put Leive on its "Top 40 Under 40" list, and Leive was also named one of "Gotham" magazine’s most powerful women under 40 in New York.
- Hy Bender
Hy Bender is an author who has written or cowritten 14 books. These include: * Five "Dummies" books about the Internet. * "The Sandman Companion," a bestselling interview-based guidebook about the popular comics fantasy series by Neil Gaiman.
- Globalpov
"GlobalPOV" is an organization which publishes a blog and online discussion forum in which business, political and technology leaders from around the world collaborate to determine the specific ways that technology is changing notions such as privacy, identity and intellectual property. The Editor-in-Chief is technologist and privacy expert David H. Holtzman. Previously, Holtzman served as the former CTO of Network Solutions, …
- Jonah Bloom
Jonah Bloom is the editor of Advertising Age , the world’s leading marketing and media publication. In this role he oversees editorial operations for Ad Age across all platforms, including its print and online editions. Jonah joined Ad Age in September 2002 from PRWeek magazine, a national weekly based in New York reporting on corporate communication, branding and public affairs. He helped to launch PRWeek in 1998 as news editor and went on to become editor-in-chief.
- Matt Kinsey
Biggest loves: meeting people, the color orange, doughnuts and cafe au laits. (New York, I'm still waiting on that housewarming gift.)
- Kenneth Wheaton
I'm the features editor/columnist/blogger at a magazine that covers the advertising/marketing industry.
- Andrew Hampp
So every four months or so I actually look at MySpace profile and realized that almost everything I've written in the About Me section is outdated. Here is my latest attempt to change all that, at least until December.
- Anjelica
Anjie..18 years..From the Bronx...100% Dominican..TakIn cAre of My BusiNesS @ school..Die HaRd Yankees fan(4 ThOse of u WhoSe jOb iS 2 HaTe)
- Nat Ives
- Jules
- Abbey Klaassen
- Alice Cuneo
- David Kilburn
Tea Designer.
- Rupal Parekh
- Katherine Ainsworth
- M. Brooke Capps
- Matt Kinsey
- Lauren Minardo
- Karen Egolf
- Mike Ryan
- Mr. David H Newmark