Souder: Are Ads Destroying Culture?

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MIAMI Clio Awards print & poster jury co-chair Kirk Souder urged creatives to think about how advertising contributes to the “homogenization of the world’s cultures” at the Clio Festival here today.

The president and executive creative director at Publicis & Hal Riney in San Francisco was inspired to give the speech after traveling to a remote village in Thailand with his family and seeing a villager with a tattooed logo of an American sneaker brand (he didn’t identify the logo).

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