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May 13, 2022 · Full of day-drinking, chain-smoking, and extra-marital affairs, AMC’s Mad Men is often accused of overplaying the more hedonistic aspects of 1960s advertising culture - but it was actually inspired by events from a real ad agency during the immortalized era.
Mad Men: Created by Matthew Weiner. With Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones. A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.
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May 18, 2015 · Coca-Cola’s “Hilltop” commercial was actually conceived of by a McCann-Erickson ad man, but as far as we know, Bill Backer, the creative director on the account, wasn’t wrestling with the...
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May 18, 2015 · The Coca-Cola commercial was developed by an actual ad man with McCann Erickson, the company that absorbs Draper’s agency in the final season of “Mad Men.”
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Mad Men begins at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, and continues at the new firm of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (later named Sterling Cooper & Partners) in the Time-Life Building at 1271 Sixth Avenue.
Jul 15, 2010 · Mad Men, AMC's critically acclaimed drama about the advertising men who ruled Madison Avenue in the 1960s (and the women who worked and lived with them), is coming back for its fourth season...
The glamor, drama, and flaws of the New York advertising world were famously depicted in the Mad Men television series. But it was a Chicago ad man that partially inspired the show’s not-always-easy-to-root-for protagonist.
