From 3 Martini Lunches To 140 Characters - How Marketing Has Evolved Since Mad Men [INFOGRAPHIC]

If social networking had existed in the Mad Men era, would Don Draper have used Twitter?

Somehow, I can’t see it. But I think he would have absolutely recognised the value, and the innovation that Twitter and other social platforms inspire would have really appealed to his creative brain. Peggy would have been writing beautifully-crafted tweets minutes after she was first promoted to copywriter, and Roger Sterling – resistant as he would inevitably have been at first – would ultimately have become one of the funniest sources of one-liners Twitter would ever see from Madison Avenue.

But social media wasn’t around in Don’s day, and marketing has changed enormously since the 1960s.

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