News From the Advertising Industry for the Week of Nov. 4

Account assignments, executive appointments and miscellaneous news from advertising agencies.

    



My Mademoiselle Summer

Like Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion before her, Meg Wolitzer spent the summer as a guest editor at Mademoiselle. A look back at a time both heady with promise and tinged with the sadness of an era about to end.

    

The Obama Campaign’s Digital Masterminds Cash In

How the precision targeting of “persuadable” voters that put President Obama over the top in 2012 could revolutionize the advertising industry.

    

Borghese v. Borghese: Battle for a Royal Name

The issue over who may use the Borghese history, at least for marketing purposes, is at the center of one of the most contentious lawsuits facing trial in New York courts this summer.

    

Advertising: Back-to-School Shopping Campaigns, Already?

The tenuous state of the economy is a major reason for the earlier arrival of back-to-school shopping campaigns.