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When Advertising Was Fun

Mourning the death of creative marketing and remembering a time when advertising didn’t suck

David Todd McCarty
Published in
7 min readApr 5, 2024

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I used to love advertising. Good advertising, that is. Clever copy. Creative storytelling. Inventive production. Impeccable design. It was all a part of America’s shining entertainment complex and some of the best…

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A cranky romantic searching for hope and humor. I tell stories. Most of them are true. I’m not at all interested in your outrage, but I do feel your pain.