Ad revenues were up 33% from a year ago, while non-ad revenues were down 11%.
Several years ago, United ran an ad that shows a cartoon father leaving the house on a business trip.
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Puris was urging clients to look beyond the 30-second TV ad almost 20 years ago.
He briefly reemerged a few months ago, appearing in a television ad for ceiling fans.
Title IX compliance was an issue when he took the AD job thirteen years ago, but not anymore.
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Conversion tracking began a few weeks ago, helping determine if an ad led to a sale or other desired action.
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Davis says the company has gone from serving 150 million ad impressions a year ago to 5.5 billion a month this year.
Bowen was the toast of the ad business 15 years ago after creating the celebrity-chocked "Portraits" campaign for American Express in the 1980s.
But Google found itself on the other side of that argument just a few months ago when it acquired on line ad agency DoubleClick.
"We did a full-page ad in the Times years ago that said, 'There will never, never, never be another Ben Benson's, '" he recalled.
Amy Hoover, who runs a recruiting firm that specializes in advertising and marketing, says that she has 50% more openings at ad agencies than a year ago.
Thirty years ago, Sherry Gavanditti was applying at an ad agency and the owner asked her why he should hire her.
At the same time, Facebook has been amping up its advertising efforts, with new ad formats and, about a year ago, the insertion of its Sponsored Stories ads directly into the newsfeed.
Ad revenue rose 41% from a year ago, 23% of it from mobile advertising, up from 14% in the third quarter.
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An ad agency I was working with a decade ago presented, as part of a new round of work, a rough cut of a crazy video featuring a frog, hot pink background, and loud pulsating music by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
But it is the kind of ad that might have made a difference two years ago.
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Also the total ad time is significantly more than just five years ago.
The keepers of the Kennedy flame threw a hissy fit a few months ago when the Republicans borrowed Kennedy's voice in an ad promoting the tax cut.
Its current CEO, Andrea Wong, is running a network that will make a projected 13% more in ad revenue in 2009 than it did five years ago, not terribly far off the 20% more year-over-year that ESPN is expected to bring in.
Remember that mobile ad network that Facebook ushered into beta around three months ago?
Neiman Marcus Group is also ramping up its ad spending on the social network after cutting back two years ago.
The FDA appears to be complicit in the situation, since it gave approval to KV a month ago, even though compounding pharmacies had been making the drug on an ad hoc basis for many years prior.
Ad Agencies should care about what happened in Hollywood over 60 years ago.
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Not long ago I heard a shocking radio advertisement from the US Department of Energy and the Ad Council.
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The television ad for Suntory mineral water looks as idealistic as it did ten years ago, featuring vistas of snow-covered mountains and a perfect Japanese family.
Just a few months ago, Google sketched out a plan to bring together a wide array of its display ad buying technologies into a more coherent, easier-to-use offering.
Armstrong, who recently said he sort-of, perhaps, possibly might be interested in buying Time Inc. even though the AOL- Time Warner merger of 13 years ago was widely considered one of the worst in business history, opened the advertising technology conference ad:tech in San Francisco today with a packed keynote address.
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In fact, the ad pricing suffered 4% drop in the fourth quarter compared to same period a year ago due to expansion in emerging markets.
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