{"id":24048,"date":"2021-01-03T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T13:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=24048"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T05:35:02","slug":"raymond-rubicam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/raymond-rubicam\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Rubicam: Research Pioneer of Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who was Raymond Rubicam? What were his contributions to the advertising world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raymond Rubicam got his start as a copywriter at an agency in Philadelphia. Rubicam valued creatives and the creative part of the ad process. He was known for having great artistic taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Raymond Rubicam and his work in advertising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Raymond Rubicam (1892-1978)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Like all the greats, Raymond Rubicam didn\u2019t get into advertising right away. He left school at 15 and did a variety of odd jobs for almost 10 years. <strong>When he was 24, he got a job as a copywriter for a Philadelphia agency<\/strong> that he stayed with for three uncomfortable years (the office politics were unpleasant). Next, he spent four years writing for N.W. Ayer, which was the largest agency in the U.S. at the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this point, Rubicam was ready to go his own way and <strong>he started Young &amp; Rubicam with John Orr Young<\/strong>, who had been an account executive at Ayer. They had only $5,000 worth of capital. Their first big account was General Foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rubicam most valued copywriters and creative people and didn\u2019t think much of account executives. He came to value art directors too<\/strong>\u2014Rubicam and Young\u2019s earliest advertisements featured good copy but amateur layouts, and when Rubicam realized this shortcoming, he hired a top art director. 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