Mark 'Copyranter' Duffy Leaves Agency Life to Join BuzzFeed

Acerbic ad critic will now blog full time

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Mark Duffy, aka Copyranter, the world's most acerbic ad critic, is taking his hilarious, renegade advertising blog mainstream. After 19 years at the same small NYC ad agency, he's quitting to write the Copyranter blog full time for BuzzFeed. "Mark Duffy here, stepping out from behind the curtain," Mark says in his first post. "I've been a New York City copywriter for more than 20 years, and I've been blogging and ranting about advertising as 'Copyranter' since 2005.

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