Mediagazer: Interview: Alex Bogusky Tells All (Part 1) (Rick Mathieson/iMediaConnection Blog)

10:45 PM ET, September 12, 2010

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Rick Mathieson / iMediaConnection Blog:

Interview: Alex Bogusky Tells All (Part 1) — This last July, word spread fast that Alex Bogusky - advertising's gold child and Adweek's “Creative Director of the Decade” - was leaving Crispin, Porter + Bogusky and parent MDC Partners. Not to go to a rival shop, but to retire from the industry at the ripe old age of 47.

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