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Madison Avenue

noun

  1. a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.


Madison Avenue

noun

  1. a street in New York City: a centre of American advertising and public-relations firms and a symbol of their attitudes and methods
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Madison Avenue

  1. A street in Manhattan on which many advertising and public relations firms have offices.
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Notes

“Madison Avenue hype” carries the connotation of misrepresentation or deliberate dishonesty.
The name of the street is often used to refer to the high-pressure techniques of the advertising business.
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Example Sentences

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And let’s be real: No Madison Avenue agency could create better advertising than real-time footage of soldiers in a trench, dodging Russian artillery and using Starlink to call in reinforcements.

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For Leah Russell, manager at Toronto's Madison Avenue pub, the boycott was a no-brainer.

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In another routine, titled “Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue,” Newhart imagined a phone conversation between Lincoln and his press agent just before the president delivered his famous speech at Gettysburg.

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Mary Wells Lawrence, who grew up in Ohio, at 22 took her imagination and ambition to New York, where she broke through advertising’s male bastions of the 1960s, quit a prestigious job when she was denied a presidency, founded her own agency and dazzled Madison Avenue with vivid campaigns that became embedded in American culture.

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And it was a keen reminder that Madison Avenue’s concerns about TikTok, which center on how to cleverly market their products and ensure that consumers are seeing their ads, are vastly different from those of Washington, where officials consider the app a national security risk.

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