The influence, motivation, political proclivities and and the like of ad agencies is accurately described by # 28, Solinoid. As an executive at a large privately owned muliti property publishing company for many years and subsequently the owner of a much smaller magazine publishing company, I can attest to the accuracy of others in this thread who have remarked that creatives are just about uniformly leftists. By the same taken those on the business side or our business ( ad sales, circulation, accounting, etc) were almost uniformly conservative. Per #28, those on the creative side were the pot smokers, alternate life-style, mostly singles (often living with other singles of both sexes), unstructured types who belittled conservatives and their value system because they preferred living in a value free environment which did not challenge their particular lifestyles. It’s pretty much adults versus children. The adults (business types) have to have and use the creativity of the children but at the same time keep them under control and reigned in, otherwise chaos. BTW, the children are now in full charge of our political system. Welcome chaos!