David Burn

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is concerned about the GOP losing control of the U.S. Senate in the upcoming midterm election. You can see this concern plainly in the commercials that the mainstream group with fringe views makes and runs. Here’s one that attacks Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. NRSC is particularly concerned about Platner—they’ve aired half a dozen new Susan Collins ads in the past few months.

Advertising agencies go out of business every day. But what about agencies with superlative creative credentials? Do they fail on a less frequent basis? I’d like to believe that, although I don’t have the data to support the thesis, and the list of great creative shops like Wexley School for Girls, Modernista, Barton F. Graf, and Cliff Freeman & Partners that are no more is long and growing longer. Now, KesselsKramer, is on the list.

I’m intrigued by how members of Gen Z see their future, socially, economically, and politically, and how this new campaign from Ally (and their agency, Anomaly LA) portrays their thinking and concerns, while also making room for the ambitions and desires of a young working person today. Americans across all age groups are increasingly concerned about money. Boomers and members of Gen X are concerned that they may not have enough money to retire.