Huckster: Regarding The Advertising Agency Media Department, Did You Know?

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1,024 is the average number of words per minute a media buyer can speak?

Ron Jeremy was a media buyer before he was an accountant? (This is a different Ron Jeremy.)

Media buyers are born with three kidneys?

After a buyer succeeds at getting a TV station’s advertising sales executive to lower his rate for the 3rd year in a row, the TV sales executive is slaughtered and his head is mounted on the media department’s wall?

Media planners are born with their adult teeth?

“Media buyer” is the third most popular childhood dream job, just after “firefighter” and “money launderer”?

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone specifically to buy advertising space for his newly-created exercise product IncredibleAbs in the October 10, 1876, issue of People magazine?

Alexander Graham Bell using his newly invented telephone to place an ad in People magazine

Alexander Graham Bell using his newly invented telephone to place an ad in People magazine

Media planners lack an epidermis?

The phrase “I can’t hear myself think” was coined by a woman sitting next to a media buyer on an airplane?

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin?

The exclamation point and ellipses were first used in print when describing a media buyer?

Are you familiar with other media department facts? Write yours in the comment section below.