Daniel Thomas
May 12, 2026 – 2.47pm
The era of the Mad Men is now firmly over, with the instant answers of chatbots now replacing the fast-talking advertising creatives of New York’s Madison Avenue as the industry’s centre of gravity.
The enormous budgets, fully stocked drinks cabinets and hotshot filmmakers on speed dial – all made famous in the long-running TV series – have given way to teams of coders, with AI models replicating work in minutes but at a fraction of the cost.
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Financial Times