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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 23 > Skip past the ads, but you’re still being sold

Skip past the ads, but you’re still being sold

By James P. Othmer / The Bulletin
August 23, 2009

In the 1960s Madison Avenue era, painstakingly re-created in the cult hit television show "Mad Men," advertisers could buy a fixed block of airtime on television and be guaranteed a captive audience. That's what Winston cigarettes did for the inaugural season of "The....

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