Love the gang at Ad Age. The more their industry gets battered, the more compelling their stuff becomes. But I would like them to help me out here: Are things getting worse or are they getting better? Because these two headlines (and their subheads, really) on the publication’s homepage today confuse me.
And now, via the aggregators’ best practices playbook: Links! Pick your reality:
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Glass half-empty? The ad market is so bad that no one can attend the ad industry’s biggest conference.
Comments
I was really hoping that Learmonth would help push AdAge towards relevance. Guess that’s not the case.
Posted by Mike Emerson at March 4th, 2009 at 2:05 pmThat’s dumb. Mike’s doing great work there. So are lots of folks. I read them every day.
Posted by Peter Kafka at March 4th, 2009 at 3:02 pm