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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: Advertising is everywhere. Wieden+Kennedy CEO Neal Arthur explains how it works
Description: One thing that strikes me, in all these episodes of Decoder, is how little any of us really pay attention to the advertising industry, and how deeply connected it is to almost other every modern business. After all you can start a company and invent a great product, but you still need to market it: you need to tell people about it, and eventually convince them to buy it. And so you take out an add on a platform and, well, the platform companies we all depend on mostly run on ads. Google’s entire consumer business is ads. Me...