More proof of the end of the TV-Industrial complex

Jan Miner just passed away. You probably don’t know her name, but she played Madge in the Palmolive commercials for 27 years.

Try to imagine, just for a second, a new product launching on TV and becoming successful… and having that success be so profound that it could support the same spokesperson for 27 years.

Inconceivable. Yet it appears that’s what most advertisers continue to shoot for.

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