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It always boosts the ego to be called prescient, so it was nice to see Danny over at AdPulp recall my comments about L.L. Bean’s last agency review. It seems that after just 14 months, following a review that was an exercise in futility, they’ve dropped relentlessly bland JWT as their agency of record.
Of course, the biggest culprit in the whole maroon was Pile & Company who, I’m quite sure, has

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