Talk about being unclear on the subject - from The Atlantic:
Where Did All the Advertising Jobs Go?
They are everywhere. Singing jingles in living rooms. Lining phone screens. Inhabiting the voices of podcast hosts. Looming like Dr. T.J. Eckleburg from highway billboards. They are ads.
But while the work of stealing attention might seem infinitely employable, something strange is happening behind the scenes of America’s most inescapable industry. For the first time on record, the number of advertising-specific jobs in the U.S. is declining in the middle of an economic expansion, according to government data.
Vendors no longer have to steal people's attention. The people have the internet and they use it to search for what they want to consume. End of story.
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