ad executive
Madison Avenue professional
An ad executive is a senior professional in advertising, typically responsible for managing client accounts, overseeing campaigns, or directing creative strategy at an agency.
The term evokes a particular image of corporate ambition and persuasion: Mad Men romanticized the ad executive lifestyle of the 1960s.
Often shortened to ad exec.
- Madison AvenueAdvertising industry synecdoche
- pitchFrequency of sound
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- clientOne who hires professionals
- creativeProducing original ideas
slick · boardroom · client meeting · brainstorm · account · agency · deadline · storyboard · ad campaign · Don Draper · three-martini lunch · martini · power lunch · presentation · big idea · branding · brand identity · schmooze
- marketersmarketing manager, marketing director, marketing consultant, marketing analyst, marketing coordinator
- branding expertslogo designer, brand manager, brand ambassador
- PR professionalspublicist, PR agent, PR director, PR manager, PR specialist
- promoterspromoter, music promoter, concert promoter, party promoter, club promoter
ad executiveanti-capitalist
Opposed to free-market economics
public interest lawyer · social worker · public defender · community organizer · activist
executive, advertising, advertise, advertisement, advertised, advertiser, advertisers, execute, execution