Episode 11. Madmen The 1950s Glory Days

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‘Madmen’ as if often thought, did not mean they were just ‘crazy’ or ‘mad’, although they were, but rather to explain that they were the men of New York’s Madison Avenue, the heart of American Advertising.

Men from Madison Avenue, Madmen. A place where I started too.

The madmen had seen the power of the new TV and scrambled to understand this new medium as a new Advertising option.

In fact, Television created such a revolution in homes and lifestyles, that Advertising and the Agencies, surged on the back of it as ‘experts’ in this new medium. TV became known as the ‘brand builder’ and it was.
Stuart Fogarty is a graduate of St. Columba’s College and UCD Dublin Ireland. He is a second-generation Adman, son of an Agency CEO.

A Former President and a Fellow of The Advertising Institute (IAPI); Board Member and a Fellow of The Marketing Institute; former advisory board member of The European Association of Advertising Agencies (EAAA): Chairman of The Advertising Press Club; Board member of The Publicity Club; former Ad Agency CEO and once Owner of Ireland’s largest Ad Agency McConnell’s and AFAO’Meara Advertising; Co-Founder of Core Media, currently Ireland’s largest Media Agency: Founder of Digital Agency ICAN; Founder of Club Internet (floated Nasdaq March 2000 as Via Net Works); regular media contributor on advertising matters; Sailing World record holder; Leinster rugby branch member; He lives in Dublin (at the minute).

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