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# Madison Avenue Manslaughter: An Inside View of Fee-Cutting Clients, Profit-Hungry Owners and Declining Ad Agencies Paperback – February 21, 2017

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- **What is this?** Madison Avenue Manslaughter: An Inside View of Fee-Cutting Clients, Profit-Hungry Owners and Declining Ad Agencies Paperback – February 21, 2017 by michael farmer
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## Customer Reviews

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    Michael Farmer Has Written The Best Book On The Plight of Big Ad Agencies, Ever.
  

*by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2017*

What happened to the great agencies of advertising's golden age (the 50s, 60s & 70s)? Their owners took them public and the fortunes they made shocked their clients awake. Then they sold to financial hacks who imposed profit pressure, while consultants and purchasing departments attacked margins. But then there was a lot of fat... so they just kept carving at it. And eliminating training. And cutting out layers. And inflating titles. Until the shivering exposed thing that remains isn't anything like the great agency of the golden age. If you want to understand the forces that have been hollowing out large advertising agencies, there is no better book to read. If you are contemplating hiring a large agency, you really need to read this book. I've spent almost thirty years in this business, the first five in the middle of this beast and the rest happily competing against it. Advertising is still the most fun you can have with your clothes on -- but the advertising business as these people practice it is no fun at all.

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    A Must-Read for Some People (and more than you'd think)
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2016*

A must-read for anyone in advertising or covering it or trying to understand marketing's broader place in the larger world of how a modern business works in a world ruled by financial markets. Devastatingly deconstructs how the holding company model has created companies that support a small number of executives making lots of money and huge, ever-churning interchangeable wage slaves. Because margins have fallen so dramatically, the fallback option to support the holding company stock price is overworking rank & file employees. Meanwhile, a few people at the top make bank while offering promises of future bonus and raises that never come or come smaller, slower and more begrudgingly. Farmer writes matter-of-factly and not with a lot of humor, and some of this get pretty dry. But the overall message is an urgent one, though probably just another warning that will go unheeded before the entire business model collapses.

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    Good summary of the current plight of the ad industry
  

*by K***. on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2019*

This book charts the trials and travails of the advertising industry (well, the broken agency model) in a way that is engaging at first, but then gets lost in the weeds of the granular details. The second  half of the book would be better served as an industry white paper, though admittedly agency staff will want to pore over the analysis which is very well researched and presented. I found the transition from narrative to detailed business analysis to be too jarring and I abandoned the book after chapter 13.

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