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For the love of advertising

Dear vagabonding, mindlessly scrolling reader. Do you love advertising but hate the work that's coming out of this shit factory?  Please don't take any harsh steps. Kindly refrain from committing career suicide by joining the creative team of a start up, or do a course on social media marketing, or worse, start terrace farming. An easy antidote to this emotionally gut wrenching feeling you have everyday is to simply visit Dave Dye's blog.  To all those in marketing and advertising, this should be a monthly pilgrimage. Like they say - when there's no way forward - go back and restart your journey. I, for one, made my visit this time, and read one more of the wonderful series that he has created titled :"what I liked before I knew what I was supposed to like." The series traces the catchy, memorable, sometimes borderline irritating but effective ads that made some of the industry's greatest fall in love with advertising. The series also looks at some of the