The year the media died.
Mad Avenue Blues* is a video made by the yellow Labrador L. McDuff, the one who wrote the Wall Street Meltdown parodies. This time it's all about the media/advertising world and the impact to the traditional models brought about by the accelerating
migration to digital.
It is not intended to offend any people or companies appearing in the video. But it could.
Always take seriously the things said in jest, especially when they are sung.
*To those unaware of, the term "Madison Avenue", aka Mad Avenue here, is often used metonymically for advertising, and Madison Avenue became identified with the advertising industry after the explosive growth in this area in the 1920s. In recent decades, many agencies have left Madison Avenue, with some moving further downtown and others moving west.
Today, only a few agencies are still located in the old business cluster on Madison Avenue, including Young & Rubicam and Doyle Dane Bernbach.
However, the term is still used to describe the agency business as a whole and large, New York-based agencies in particular.
Madison Avenue is also identified as "the fashionable road". But that's another story for another time.
